Week 27 / 2024 This week: why it's good to end a workshop when there's still energy in the room... and why it's good (for me, at least) to act the fool somewhat.
Week 26 / 2024 This weeknotes will be brief, as the whole week has been spent on site in Bergen, Norway, doing workshops for PROJECT TEMPORAL. And I guess you get to learn at the same time as me that there will be weeks like this, when the weeknotes simply state that you spent
Week 25 / 2024 Greetings from midsommar, a day which—as far as I can tell—matters more to most Swedes than Christmas. As a long-time fan of sunshine and warmth, I can dig it... though I'll pass on the pickled herring, thanks. This week has been dominated by finishing the first-draft
Week 24 / 2024 Welcome back to weeknotes at Worldbuilding Agency! This week has mostly involved: * the production of stories for the latest collaborative foresight cycle book from Media Evolution, plus * a certain amount of admin, and a related amount of hurry-up-and-wait, related to PROJECT TEMPORAL (Yes, I have grudgingly decided to give the
Week 23 / 2024 Well, here we are again. Operations at Magrathea Futures this week have included co-planning a workshop to be delivered at the end of the month, and the slow, patient rebooting of a focussed reading-for-research practice. More news on these in weeks to come—and also on the glorious paleofutures pictured
Week 22 / 2024 Well, where did that week go? This is, of course, the question that weeknotes are meant to answer... but the philosophers among you will surely acknowledge (however grudgingly) that no answer can ever be complete. One Big Thing This week's big thing was surely two days of workshops
Week 21 / 2024 This has been a difficult week, for reasons I can't quite explain, even to myself. Difficult isn't even the right word, really; it's just been a week in which it's been hard to get any traction. There's various reasons one