This essay was commissioned as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation programme Social justice in a digital age in response to James Plunkett’s essay The care paradox. …

Exploring innovation as care work I read this post by Meg Conley this week and it stopped me in my tracks, particularly this sentence: “Care work is the anticipation of grief.” This post is a rumination on how that term applies to care in a very different context. Being care-full The research…

Understanding the ingredients for a foresight commons When Careful Industries started to develop the Civil Society Foresight Observatory for the National Lottery Community Fund, a part of the brief was to work out what a Foresight Commons could look like — some kind of shared space and resource that might…

What do the words we often use to talk about digital power really mean? This glossary offers definitions for and groups some of the terms commonly used to describe the intersections of power and digital technologies. In creating it, we found that some terms are more likely to be used…

This is not so much a weeknote as a “two-year note” — an attempt to pull together the different strands of work we’re doing at Careful Industries and our (very new) not-for-profit arm, Promising Trouble and explain why we’re doing it. …

Developing a taxonomy of foresight As we move into our third week of work, we are still heavily in the planning stage. We are also beginning to see how this project might develop and what its useful outputs or tools might be. For us, a major point is that as a foresight observatory we don’t…

As a research studio, we tend to read a lot, so we decided to do a round up of some of the things we’re reading this week. A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people by Karen Hao Recommended by Dominique Zenani Barron, Design Researcher This article is about…

A guide to how funders, civil society organisations and policymakers can use the Belonging, Care and Repair Foresight report. Who is it for? This report is for anyone making plans for the future. …

Excerpt from our discovery report, A Constellation of Possible Futures, written with Rachel Coldicutt and Anna Williams — As we are planning our remaining research workshops with civil society practitioners, we have been thinking more about relational foresight and how it is different from participatory foresight methods. …