Minute Paper 2/14

I think today’s class would have made Shiv Visvanathan, author of “Mrs. Bruntland’s Disenchanted Cosmos” quite happy. This is because we further explored and began to apply his ideas on approaching futures as story tellers. This included our reading of “Countdown to Meltdown” and breaking into small groups to begin creating our own stories, both of which really illustrated how turning a possible future into a story can really bring it to life. This seems to work because by striping away jargon and catch phrases and replacing them with places and events that we can visualize, it makes ideas on possible futures accessible and applicable to who ever may hear or read about them.

Mark Alexander