Our work draws on ideas from futures, neuroscience and AI.
Andrew Curry
The Next Wave ·
Originally published with Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator.
Argues that conventional futures work can reproduce familiar assumptions. We're using artificial intelligence to create unfinished future worlds, which allow for more useful conversations about the future.
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King Canute ·
Organisations spend enormous effort trying to learn, but much less understanding how they forget. This explores how knowledge and knowhow decay inside organisations, and why expertise often lives in relationships rather than documents.
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The Next Wave ·
What changes when we stop thinking about AI as weightless software and start thinking about datacentres, depreciation and marginal costs? This examines the underlying economics of the AI boom.
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Atelier of What’s Next ·
What does it actually mean to try to generate a better future? We need to increase our collective capacity to change, and part of doing that is creating viable routes between the world we have and the worlds we might want.
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King Canute ·
What can neuroscience tell us about how people imagine the future? An exploration of the brain system involved in memory, simulation and future thought.
Read article (opens in a new tab)David Bent
Atelier of What’s Next ·
Extracted from Atelier Update 7 Dec 2025.
Imagination is not simply an individual capacity. It depends on the spaces, relationships, practices and institutions that allow unfamiliar ideas to emerge and travel. Drawing on work from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this asks what an effective ‘imagination infrastructure’ might actually require.
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