After days of intense academic lectures and panel debates, it was time to shift gears at the 24th Visegrad Summer School. On Monday and Tuesday, we challenged our participants to step entirely outside of their comfort zones and known schemas for two full days of high-energy engagement during the Future Literacy Workshops!
To guide this collective co-creation journey, we brought in two exceptional experts:
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Agata Bisping: A creativity practitioner who combines research and academic insights into action strategies, having implemented projects for major municipalities and tech giants like Dell Technologies. She is a lecturer at SWPS and AGH, where she researches futures as a tool for building social innovation.
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Marcin Maciejewski: A Future(s) Strategist and Business Foresight Advisor at infuture.institute, who materializes long-term innovations and emphasizes kinesthetic learning - believing in the power of touch, building, and drawing to truly experience changes in the world.
Under their guidance, participants were told to completely forget linear thinking. Instead, the workshops were designed to wildly diverge into multiple possibilities, narrow down through tight convergence, and iterate repeatedly. The ultimate asset in the room was pure attention to the "here and now."
Because the future is a great, unpredictable unknown, the goal was not to guess it, but to map out the probable, preferable, and plausible. As our facilitators noted, to truly change your perspective and reach this future, you have to trust the collective process and allow yourself to be a little unhinged!
Judging by the energy in the room, our cohort is more than ready to co-create what comes next.
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