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LIFE IN 2 0 4 2 : S USTAINABLE,
LALA DEHEIN ZEL IN A N D
DIVER SE, AND CREAT IV E
CRIE FUTUROS M OVEM EN T
Otto Coletivo Fotogrfico
WHY NOT?
LALA DEHEINZELIN is one of the pioneers in Creative Economy
This should be our guiding phrase as we think of futures and in Brazil. Relating sustainability and models for the future with
free ourselves from whats known and plausible to plunge into experiences in Creative Economy, she has worked as a consultant,
whats desirable. lecturer, and workshop instructor in different countries on four
Why not create another economy, where value is more than continents. Her transdisciplinary activity began in the cultural sector
just financial worth? Why not create a model of government and has extended to include work developed with corporations, the
ruled by merit and direct participation of the people? Why third sector, governments and development agencies, multilateral
not have cities built for enjoying time instead of occupying organizations, and collaborative networks.
space? Or have care be the guide of all kinds of activities Lala is a founder and director of Enthusiasmo Cultural and creator of
in the 21st century? Why not have the kind of education that the Crie Futuros movement.
teaches us how to make good choices and then understand She served as a Senior Advisor to the UNDPs Special Unit on
the consequences of each one of them? Why not leave behind South-South Cooperation, from 2005 to 2011; as a Member of the
all the daily problems caused by fear and mistrust? Why not Board at the National Institute of Fashion and Design; and and is
establish relationships, businesses, and territories based on one of the founders of the Future Studies Nucleus of the Pontifical
trust? Why not embrace collaboration as a modus operandi? Catholic University, PUC. Find out more about Ms. Deheinzelin at
A sustainable, diverse, and creative world. Why not? www.laladeheinzelin.com
La l a D eh ein ze l in
F ir s t E dit ion
So Paulo, SP. Br az il | 2012
Deheinzelin, Lala
Desirable new world [livro eletrnico] : life
in 2042 : sustainable, diverse and creative / Lala
Deheinzelin ; [English version Eugnia Deheinzelin
and William Krell]. -- So Paulo : Ed. do Autor,
2012.
12-06714 CDD-303.4
Prospective thinking has existed since ancient times, because as Peter Drucker says, The best way to predict the future is to create it. From
the standpoint of David Bohms Holomovement, the Explicit Order unfolds as an event based upon the underlying Implicit Order. The
extraordinary futurist and visionary Buckminster Fuller1 also believes that reality has an underlying inner path that may warn us about the
most radical transformations. When changes approach our reality, the turbulences of the system increase and watching them may allow us
to prepare adequately. How to access these changes that are underway, but still somewhat imperceptible?
In the fifties, in California, the Rand Corporation started the Delphi technique, applied to deal with the Fifteen Global Challenges by the
Millennium Project2, represented in Brazil by NEF. Domenico de Masi explores the theme of Creative Chaos and his latest book on Creative
Groups progresses in new trends with the use of collective intelligence and wisdom. In the nineties appeared the project Imagine Chicago by
Bliss Brown, who uses the technique of Appreciative Intergenerational Dialogue which continues to expand worldwide.
The Crie Futuros proposal aims to develop contexts to generate innovative ideas that are shared through social networks and thus pollinate
memes, in what Rupert Sheldrake calls morphogenetic fields. We believe that it might be close to the proposed Integration of Knowledge
initiated by C. R. Snow, in which the Exact Sciences (that analyze), the Social Sciences (that explain) and the Arts (that reveal) interact
synergistically. The latter we believe is the key at this time of planetary transition, disclosed by the creative economy or new concepts of
design, such as those proposed by Bruce Mau when he said in his book Massive Change: Its not about the world of design, but about the
design of the world. Throughout the world universities concentrate their thinking on what this future may be, and how it develops,
resulting in prospective laboratories and projects such as EdXonline3.
In Greek thinking there are Kronos and Kairos, linear time and the time of opportunities, one more quantitative and the other more
qualitative. The current moment is one of opportunities, of accelerating processes and hoping that the initiatives suggested in the RIO +20
seeking a better future for all, such as those proposed in this book, might be implemented in the right way at the right time.
Arnoldo de Hoyos, 2012
Chairman of the NEF4, Center for Future Studies at PUC, the Catholic University of So Paulo
2 www.millennium-project.org
3 www.edxonline.org
4 www.nef.org.br
To create the future, we have to let ir be born
Scene 1: In October 2010, I was with Lala in one of the first preparatory activities for the Rio +201 and of what would follow after it,
discussing perspectives to bring about the civilizatory transition we desire and need. We were dealing with what could become a Global
Union for Sustainability. Not coincidentally, we were together at the same table, along with Rosa Alegria, Pedro Tarak, Carlos Lopes 2 and
other colleagues. And we raised the flag: strategies and action plans are necessary, but not sufficient. We need a positive outlook of the
future, able to mobilize and direct our creative energy towards nurturing the spirits of millions of people. The idea was heard, and
appreciated, but was not considered as a central guideline.
Scene 2: When preparing that seminar, with other fellow creators of the future, we discussed what we might expect from the Rio +20. Two
phrases came to my mind, and I believe they are increasingly true. One: Rio +20 should be the occasion when, finally, we will realize that
the world is more than just the sum of countries.The implications are enormous, and require a true reinvention of the systems of political
and social organization. The logic of nation-states assumes a world fragmented into impervious territories, with controllable frontiers.
Nothing is more incongruous with the reality that we are already experiencing and that becomes more pronounced every day. This finding,
plus recognition of the existing immense technological and social possibilities gives rise to the other phrase: what is at stake at the Rio +20
is the creation of the future-now. That is, we speak of a future that is already among us, struggling to come to light. But to create the
future, we have to let it be born. And the delivery has to be now.
Scene 3: The everyday routine reveals that even our most mundane decisions have a built-in expectation of future, often unconscious. There
is an expectation of the future that governs our decisions in the present. In the current collective imaginary in the news, movies, books, art
prevails the outlook of an apocalyptic and not very remote future. That is what we are going to create if we do not immediately strengthen
the outlook of the desirable future we already feel pulsating.
Scene 4: A year and a half after the first scene, Lala gives me a call: she had invested in the idea, cultivated the proposal to share desirable
futures. And there was a book (this one you are reading), ready to be launched at the Rio +20. She invited me to help disseminating it. Of
course I accepted, along with colleagues from the Vitae Civilis and many more who, like us, know that it is possible to create the future.
After all, we do this every day, and have done so for many years. Welcome to Lala, with her enthusiasm and persistence. Welcome to you,
readers who will share foresights and join us in the effort of this delivery and the creation of our desired future. Here and now.
Aron Belinky, Instituto Vitae Civilis3
Coordinator of International Processes
1 http://www1.ethos.org.br/EthosWeb/pt/4732/servicos_do_portal/noticias/itens/forum_global_pela_sustentabilidade_sera_lancado_no_rio_em_2011_.aspx
2 Respectively: Ncleo de Estdos do Futuro, Fundacin Avina, General Sub Secretary of the UN
3 http://vitaecivilis.org/
Dedicated to all those who create and believe in desirable
futures. Your dreams fertilized the future that is being
gestated in this world pregnant with another world.
To all those who participated in Crie Futuros and, by doing so, granted us the non-commercial use of their futures, thank you for your trust and inspiration.
To professional artists who ceded their illustrations (fantastic!) especially to Claude Giordano for the emblematic cover image.
If any image is not credited, we apologize and reiterate our good faith it is because the contact could not be found.
Our process is collaborative and made possible thanks to the commitment of people and institutions, which we thank. Learn more at the end of the book.
Our collection is wiki: it allows you to get to know, edit, and supplement the futures with texts/ pictures/ videos in www.criefuturos.com
Disclaimer:
The entire content of this book is the sole responsibility of the author, who thanks the supporters and exempts them of any responsibility for the text or images herein.
To get this book, visit www.criefuturos.com . The proceeds from the eventual sale of this publication will be reverted to the maintenance of the Crie Futuros movement.
TAGS: future of the past inspiration happiness
consumption susteinability cooperation
collective imaginary change of mentality wealth
processes networks another posible world
collaborative models participation abundancy
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The future is the outcome of dreams from the past and choices of the present.
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Create desirable to be set apart from the external world; relationship with energy, consumption,
highly sophisticated and expensive arti- sustainability, cooperation, rapport with
futures why?
facts of war. Images that nurtured our our fellowmen.
Looking at the future of the past it is Nevertheless, the message is clear:
quite obvious that much of what exists how we visualize the future influences
today has been previously dreamed of: its creation. Todays choices design the
since the late nineteenth century we world of tomorrow. By changing the
find many images of information and choices, we can change tomorrow. So,
communication technologies such as what should we choose? How to
video conferencing, notebooks, wireless choose? Do we have visions of desirable
technology. We can also see gigantic cit- futures to guide our choices and inspire
ies filled with more and more cars, innovation? Futurist Peter Drucker says:
drive-thrus, fast food, robotic surgery, The best way to predict the future is
solar heating.1 to create it.
Remote chat by video; fax or printer; use of wireless
These things inspired and engaged technology; global cities. Frank R. Paul, USA, 1921.
However, since the sixties the most
those who grew up looking at them to common images of the future have
turn dreams into reality. These images been somber, grim and vague. Images
influenced choices of lifestyle, political of violence, disaster, threats. Today, the
and investment priorities, technological (few!!) images of the future, found
innovation. One can also note what mainly in video games and science fic-
kind of future was wished for and tion, frighten rather than motivate.
thus created. The ubiquity of cars, in all It is necessary to dream and spread
possible shapes; consumerism, synony- images and ideas of desirable futures
mous to happiness; families and individ- that can inspire innovation and point
uals cooped up in their homes, content out choices, especially in the direction
Life in the Year 2000: Telephone call with video. of the change of models that is needed
1 See more at www.paleofuture.com and And already wanting to talk with China. for a better and feasible world. Crie Fu-
www.criefuturos.com. French National Library, 1912. turos endeavors to fertilize the collec-
W hy, What for , How 11
tive imagination by creating seeds of ing choices and devising policies based ample, city planners and futurists of the
the future and preparing the ground so upon perspectives and priorities that do late nineteenth century London believed
that urgent changes of mentality and not make sense in the long run. For ex- the city would continue to be powered
behavior may take place. by horses as it grew. So, one of the great-
We believe that to break with mod- est challenges was what to do with all
els and generate profound innovation, the horse manure? Diapers? But then,
one must be freed from the search for how to get rid of them and their con-
plausible futures, to reach out for the tents? A lot of energy was spent on these
desirable, the unlikely, but not impossi- questions, but little did they know that
ble. Always dare to look at the world in less than thirty years, the issue would
and at what we want to change, and no longer make sense, since horses were
think Why not?. It seems utopian, but replaced by cars. This metaphor high-
the work of hundreds of people and in- lights how many of our concerns and
stitutions (such as the Ashoka2 social en- Life in the year 2000. Education as an assembly line ... policies might be horse diapers and re-
Bibliothque Nationale de France. France, 1889.
trepreneurs) has shown that the impos- fer to issues that soon will have no mean-
sible is possible. For example, low ing, unless we make an effort to visualize
income community neighborhoods that different futures.
have built parks and daycare facilities Measuring the wealth of people
without money and in two days3! and nations only by the amount of mon-
Visualizing futures is also important ey generated; investing almost every-
because sustainability comes from the thing in infrastructure, i.e. hardware,
harmonious choices we make in the pres- and almost nothing in intelligence and
ent. If we are not attuned to the future processes, i.e. software, (and no hard-
we always risk wasting large amounts of ware works without software...)4, in pro-
time, resources and opportunities mak- cesses (such as bureaucracy) and struc-
tures (like cities) that cause huge losses Eduardo Galeno5 says: This is a world tainability will not come to be just by
of the most precious, scarce, and nonre- pregnant with another world. A tweaking the old models. We are talk-
newable resource we have: Time. These phrase that best translates what we ing about something new.
may well be some of the horse diapers have been saying for many years us- Our contribution to this gesta-
that should be rethought in our design- ing the image in the book cover: sus- tion is the result of extensive work, a
ing of sustainable lifestyles. creative and futurist mix that converg-
es upon a vision of sustainability based
on creative economy and collaborative
Our starting point models. This work was structured
through activities involving6 a wide va-
We cant solve problems by using riety of stakeholders: the cultural sec-
the same kind of thinking we used tor, corporations, the third sector, local
governments and development institu-
when we created them.
tions, international cooperation, col-
Albert Einstein laborative networks.
Desirable New World was construct- The concepts and tools we devel-
ed based upon hundreds of futures cre- oped along this path guided us on how
ated between 2008 and 2012, in eight to bring together the futures and de-
countries, by people belonging to doz- sign sustainable ways of life. We are
ens of networks and of all ages and oc- synthesizers: in quest of synthetic
cupations. Simple, diverse, and light ways that might be applied in various
language without any technical preten- domains; howists: interested in the
tion connecting the dots to reveal the how to; and hubs: trying to unite
full picture of these desired lifestyles. languages, sectors, and fields of action.
Our feeling is that they make vis-
Tableaux Vivants. Claude Giordano, Paris, Nineties.
ible some traits of this other pos-
sible world that is being engendered.
5 During the movements of true democracy 6 Further information, articles and videos in the site
in Spain in 2011... www.laladeheinzelin.com
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In a simplified way, we might say toms of Earth are finite, the bits of the
a
that the traditional economy hinges new technologies constitute our sec-
If you prefer, go straight to the futures,
on tangible resources: environmental/ ond infinite. With them we can create
because what follows is rather technical
structural and financial capital that be- many virtual worlds and endless ways
and we do hope that you will enjoy
ing scarce and finite resulted in unsus- to empower, connect, recreate and in-
reading this.
tainable models. Conversely, Creative teract. And that creates our third
Economy is based on intangible re- infinite: the infinite ways in which the
sources: cultural capital and social cap- network society is organized, produces,
Sustainability how? ital which, incidentally, are abundant reinvents. And all the new ways of pro-
Three infinites... in poor countries. This economy ducing and undertaking derive from
rests upon cultural diversity, knowl- these associations, which are summa-
Sustainability? How, if the Earth is only edge, ICT, and creativity that enable rized in the word collaborative. The
one and its resources are finite and the eventual achievement, not only of examples are many: new models to pro-
scarce? Creative economy might be a economic, but social, cultural and envi- duce, distribute, and teach like Circuito
solution. ronmental results as well. That is to Fora do Eixo7; the hundreds of crowd-
We are experiencing the passing say, sustainable. funding8 collaborative funding sites;
of centuries in which society, econom- Sustainability may be possible, Mesh9 businesses that propose an econ-
ics, and politics were organized around since we are talking about three infi- omy of sharing; the fabulous resource
material resources such as land, gold, nites! One infinite leveraging the known as cognitive surplus10, the col-
or oil, tangibles and, therefore, finite other... The first is that of intangible
and consumed upon use. This finitude assets, which not only cannot be de- 7 A Circuit that links more than one hundred clusters
creates an economy of scarcity, based pleted, but are renewed and multiplied of creation now spreading out to other countries of
America, that innovates in all forms of management http://
on competitive models. However, in- with use, instead. This alone should
foradoeixo.org.br/
tangible resources such as culture, turn creative economy into a strategic
8 Hundreds of sites, and all very recent
knowledge, and experience are infi- priority at a time when the major pre-
9 See the book Mesh, by Lisa Gansky or the site
nite and multiply with use. They may dicament is how to improve quality of http://meshing.it/
stand for an economy of abundance life and generate income since the
10 Concept proposed by Clay Shirky,
relying on models of collaboration. planet is just one, finite. But if the http://www.shirky.com/
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laborative production of knowledge choices, this trio of infinites can and collaborate to change the culture
which bears fruit like Wikipedia. bring prosperity and harmony. We use towards sustainability.
Current times are fascinating be- this outline for the Desirable New Our starting point is based upon
cause each of these infinites acti- World, sustainable (and possible...). some assumptions:
vates the other, allows it to be strength- For all this to happen, which BB Sustainability is only possible through a
ened, turning potential into reality. Of would be some of our starting points? change in culture, mentality, desires, out-
course, infinite 1, that of intangible re- look of the world and the future. Are we
sources (culture, knowledge, creativity, trying to change habits without changing
experiences), has always existed. But Lending a helping mentalities?
the new technologies of infinite 2 have hand to the future BB Sustainable is not merely an adjective
created associations with other sectors but a new operational system that from
and partners that allow this creative The Crie Futuros logo11 symbolizes a now on will guide actions in all domains of
potential to become real, visible and hand because we want to lend the fu- life. Just as slavery is inconceivable today, in
accessible, thus tangibilizing the in- ture a helping hand. To achieve this the near future it will be inconceivable that
tangible. The combination of these we identified some principles that will any aspect of life is not sustainable ...
two infinites generates the third one, be the guidelines in this book. BB The word sustainability gives us a
with new ways of organizing people, feeling of guilt, not enthusiasm we
relationships, and businesses, that is, one new operational system: know that sustainability is essential but
the network society. cultural change. Change we sense it something that may be
But for these infinites to come to- mentalities to restrictive, technical and tedious. Sustain-
gether activators are required: ele- change habits ability is the possibility of re-designing the
ments that act as modems or cata- Desirable New World is world, it fosters a better quality of life, and
lysts, integrating sectors and languages not a technical book, but an it is interesting and daring too.
and leading to the convergence need- inspirational one. We would BB The approach to sustainability must be
ed for a systemic action. If we dare to like to motivate, entertain systemic because the ecosystem we live in
abandon many of the models (known is socio-environmental, signaling the inter-
and comfortable, albeit wrong) of the dependence between the tangible of eco-
20th century and make the right 11 www.criefuturos.com nomics and environment and the intangible
W hy, What for , How 15
of society and culture. Limiting sustainabili- policies and investments focus on We further believe that there is al-
ty to environmental solutions entails more hardware / structure, as if their exis- ways equivalence between the tangible
than a risk; it jeopardizes what might be tence would suffice to generate soft- and intangible, and we can always seek
the solution. ware / processes. The upshot is always the translation of one into the other.
BB It is a major cultural change to perceive a huge waste, because hardware will Examples: it would be sustainable to
that a solution for sustainability are the not work without software... Example: manage both the tangible assets (biodi-
intangible assets: creativity, cultural diversity, the Olympics and the World Cup, in versity, natural resources) and intangi-
knowledge, experience, care and human Brazil. Almost everything that is being ble assets (cultural diversity human and
values. These are abundant resources that undertaken is hardware, structure social resources) in a clean and renew-
renew themselves and multiply with use. such as stadiums or highways. Whereas able way. Those who emit large
little is underway in software: man- amounts of carbon can pay credits to
TWO equivalent coordinates: agement, entrepreneurship. We make offset emissions. We take care not to
tangible / structural and products, but do not provide the pro- waste tangible energy, but ignore the
intangible / processual cess for making them visible and work- expenditure of intangible energy such
Contemporary civilization able. We invest more in infrastructure as distrust cost: faulty environments
experiences the explosive than in education, we change govern- and processes like most of the bureau-
combination of rapid techno- ment priorities without bothering to cratic procedures, resulting in an enor-
logical evolution and slow change the laws and regulations that mous waste of time, money, knowl-
ethical and social evolution12 enforce them. edge. Furthermore, we give heed to
The practice of considering an Another interesting thing is that natural resources, tangible, but neglect
equivalence and interdependence be- the same structure / hardware can ac- the scarcest resource of all, time, which
tween tangible / hardware / structure commodate various processes / soft- in fact is not renewable.
or intangible / software / process, helps ware, that is to say, the same form can Desirable New World was de-
to understand how and where we can have several different functions. This signed intending to optimize time and
be more sustainable. In most cases, was our rationale: start with what al- find other functions (processes / soft-
ready exists today and think of new ware) for the forms (structures / hard-
12 Ricardo Abramovay, Folha de So Paulo, 03/27/
functions. After all, this is what creativi- ware) that already exist. When play-
2012 http://radarrio20.org.br/index.php?r=site/
view&id=233404 ty and innovation are all about. ing at re-inventing these forms, it is
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amazing to see how much could be and processes that must be maintained The tangible aspect of our ecosystem
done with little effort and few re- simply because they are already good encompasses the environmental dimen-
sources. Sustainable. enough. In this book we deal a lot with sion both natural and technological
oldiety, not only with novelty and the economic dimension mone-
TRhree points in time: Looking back we are bewildered tary and solidary. The intangible aspect
past, present and future by barbarities such as the Inquisition or entails the socio-political dimension
Traditional economics no astonished to find out that bathing was and the symbolic -cultural. Interesting-
longer takes into account13 considered bad for health. To think ly, the latter is still barely visible, al-
that products or processes about Time is to visualize the present as though it is where the abundant and
only exist because of heritage if we were in the future because then renewable resources that can provide
received from the past and that goes we become aware of the barbarities of the solution for sustainability are
for assets and tangible natural resources the present. Consider the fattening found: intangible assets like knowl-
(such as oil or water) as well as for the breakfasts in hotels or the disasters edge, creativity, and culture.
intangibles (such as knowledge and triggered by misfortunes of the finan- We speak about human capital, in-
practices). Any process or product leaves cial market. This book recreates or tellectual capital, social capital, cultural
a legacy for the future, be it positive or eliminates quite a few barbarities, and capital, environmental capital, but still
negative, tangible (such as solid waste) also points out that until recently there do not acknowledge that value may
or intangible (such as knowledge to be were no things that, off and on, we mean much more than the economics.
systematized). To be sustainable is to judge as irrevocable such as the single For example, reputation (one of the few
make the appropriate choice concern- currency system or advertising. things that cannot be copied) tends to
ing resources received from the past and be one of the most important values.
the legacy for the future. Indeed, our FOUR dimensions of Assets refer not solely to econom-
outlook has been immediatist, short- sustainability in the ics, such as investment, funding, mar-
termed, focused only on the present. processes, values kets, exchanges, bank of hours, comple-
To think about Time is to appreci- and outcome: mentary currencies. Moreover, assets
ate the past, since there are products environmental, can be found in the socio-political di-
economic, social mension: vested rights, networks, social
13 As stressed by the economist Jos Eli da Veiga
www.zeeli.pro.br and cultural fabric, institutions, articulation, and
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leaderships coordinated action. Assets We propose Sustainability 4D+ changes state, a change of state oc-
may be in the cultural-symbolic dimen- considering that products and processes, curs in the nature of Value. Just as it is
sion: as knowledge and practices, lan- to be effective and sustainable, must be impossible to understand the water cy-
guages of arts, creativity, history, spiritu- systemic and always encompass these cle by studying only the liquid state, we
ality, human values. And environmental four dimensions in their make up and realize that this is also true in relation
assets involve more than the natural en- forms of evaluation. This probably will to Value. For instance, we invest finan-
vironment biodiversity, raw materials, require development of indicators and cial capital in human capital and thus
our body and health, it involves also the four-dimensional measurements (4D+) generate technological capital which in
technological environment spaces, fa- of wealth, resources and results. We turn can produce environmental capital
cilities and equipment. further noticed that, just as the water and so on.
Perhaps in the short term we will
have a 4D+ Economy, where the assets of
nations, institutions and individuals are
the sum of resources and results in tan-
gible (environmental and economic) and
intangible (socio political, and symbol-
ic- cultural) dimensions. This is the desir-
able future, because it would change ne-
gotiation levels, decision making, the
definition of priorities and policies.
Our Desirable New World al-
ready operates with this multidimen-
sional rationale: projects, processes,
policies are always aimed at results 4D+.
The economy has been re-invented and
gained size and currencies. The ways to
assess and measure are also 4D +, since
measuring life, sustainability and abun-
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dance using only available measuring The historian Riane Eisler15 propos- Care encompasses many activities
units is like trying to measure liters es a reinterpretation of our history of the future: to take care not only of
with a ruler. Impossible. from two models: one of Domination Nature but of people, cities, knowl-
where the focus is on death, and one of edge, practices, time, relations, life-
FIVE hows of Partnership and is focused on sup- styles, resources 4D+. There will be
sustainability: care, porting life. It does make sense doesnt fewer jobs in the future, but there will
trust, potencies, flow it? For millennia we have lived in the be plenty of work in taking care
and the collaborative culture of domination: fear moves the therefore it should become a priority
economy and society, evolutionary the- in national policies16. Icelands rapid re-
CARE is the purpose ories are based on the idea of struggle, covery after the 2008 crisis is an exam-
The 199814 What the World survival of the fittest, that which is ple of the focus on care, sustainability,
Wants project, shows that to solve linked to the human and socio-cultural creative economy and not by chance
most (yes! almost everything!) of man- is not valued; religions preach that the the country is managed by women17.
kinds problems it would be enough to best of life is... after death! In Desirable New World the se-
invest for ten years, only thirty percent The collaborative model is increas- lected futures are linked to care and ori-
of what the world spends on arma- ingly present, thanks to the network ented by affection: we affect and are af-
ments. More than ten years have gone society, and will probably be the fu- fected. As pointed out by Leonardo Boff
by, the choice for the common good ture (or we shall have no future...). we should consider more the emotional
has not been made and spending on Therefore, care should guide choices, intelligence, since it is the most evolved,
weapons has doubled. The futurist priorities and policies in all areas. For occurring only in mammals18.
Buckminster Fuller says Either war is each thing, design, law, investment,
16 One of the proposals by Ladislau Dowbor;
obsolete, or men are. Why do we relation, attitude, ask the question: Carlos Lopes and Ignacy Sachs in the book
continue to make foolish choices? what does it take care of? The greater http://criseoportunidade.wordpress.comin
the care, the more worthy it is of our 17 One of many articles on the topic. Note they chose
not to save banks but to invest in people
choice, since care is inherently sustain- http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2012/03/09/
relation and the proposal in http://www.unesco.org/ 18 This is one of his texts that mentions the subject
education/tlsf/mods/theme_a/interact/www.worldgame. http://www.mndh.org.br/index2.php?
org/wwwproject/index.shtml 15 http://www.rianeeisler.com/ option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=60
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TRUSTFUL environments their place in the subway line when they ingly guided by collective common
and processes are the basis go to the restroom! The costs of distrust sense. None of this is possible without
To be or to being, that is the ques- are enormous, look at how many things trust. How can one collaborate and con-
tion... Paraphrasing Shakespeare we around you are driven by distrust... Can nect without trust? Changes nowadays
note that there is a tremendous differ- you imagine the heavy cost of the huge are so numerous and rapid that increas-
ence. For instance: Japan is poor onerous bureaucracy that tries, with lit- ingly we have to use intuition and com-
many natural disasters, insufficient land tle success, to avoid corruption and in- mon sense as parameters, needless to
to grow food for all, severe winters, stead makes most public bodies in Brazil say, they also rely on trust.
while being rich its people have a unable to execute their annual budgets Desirable New World is made by
good quality of life. Yet, Mozambique and to adequately contract services. and for those who trust themselves,
although being poor is actually rich- Lack of trust lies behind much of their fellowmen, their community, a
the country has an abundance of natu- the disharmony we see in the world, in cause and realize that there is wisdom
ral resources, cultural diversity, privi- many spheres of human life and largely in the collective and that you can live
leged location and climate. Why does fueled by mainstream media, whose and operate from it.
this happen ? prevailing product is fear.
Looking at development processes Trust is the basis for processes re- Work on existing POTENCIES
it is clear that the capital which is able to lated to activities whose raw materials is the resource
activate others is abundant in Japan and are intangible resources, and we have Engineers who project a highway do not
scarce in Mozambique: the Social Capital seen that these are our pathway for the start from the holes, but from solid
collective and economic results future since intangibles resources ground. We can add as many holes as
achieved through cooperative and trust- abound and multiply with usage. Tour- we want and they will always amount to
ful social relations; coordinated plan- ist experience, creativity, the values of emptiness... However, our culture oper-
ning and action; strong institutions; cul- an enterprise, governance, learning, all ates on the rationale of the hole, of
ture of solidarity and citizenship. rest upon trust. what is missing and not on what do we
And Social Capital depends on Much time, resources, energy, have: that is where assistencialism comes
what? Reciprocity and personal, inter- knowledge, joy are wasted by distrust. It from, which disempowers and does not
personal and institutional trust. In Ja- is unsustainable. The future is netwo- resolve. Normally planning meetings be-
pan, people leave their bags to mark ven, collaborative, intuitive, and increas- gin with the question: What do we
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Fair and accessible FLOW Awareness of the flows reveals Our outlook is optimistic (we are
of resources is the goal many of todays barbarities. The an- enthusiasm!)22. As such, we look at the
When we train our eyes to visualize po- nual energy that the controversial half-full part of the glass and see that
tencies we find that there is abundance Belo Monte hydroelectric could gener- the data reveals opportunities. Desir-
and flow is lacking. In Nature there is ate is equivalent to that wasted by our able New World asserts that it is a privi-
health where there is flow. Still water, power transmission system. The 2010 lege to live in this era where, for the first
rots. Stopped blood, dies. Might we Census revealed that the number of time in the history of humanity, there
have a broader and more systemic out- vacant houses in Brazil exceeded the are sufficient resources, knowledge and
look of sustainability by thinking about housing shortage, yet the real estate people. For this r eason we hope to fos-
identifying, promoting and regulating market continued to expand (another ter the practice of well thought out and
flows? Environmental and financial bubble about to burst?) 20. Does it sensible choices that may allow this
tsunamis; hunger or obesity, social and make sense that about thirty trillion abundance to circulate fairly.
urban mobility: all flow problems. dollars committed to bailing out
Money, knowledge, food, water, banks21 in the crisis of 2008 would be COLLABORATIVE and netwoven
health, culture, affection, clothing, the equivalent of a monthly salary of processes are the mechanism
housing, energy how much of the U.S. $ 357.00 during one year for the When, in 1987, Riane Eisler proposed
problem is a real lack and how much is seven billion inhabitants of this plan- the two aforementioned models of
lack of flow? et? Or to recognize that the financial Domination / centralized and Partner-
Abundance is even more evident cloud circulates a capital 75 times ship / distributed, the notion of the col-
when we take into account tangible greater than the world GDP? laborative or web had not yet surfaced.
and intangible resources and results. To However, the typology of networks
ensure appreciation and flow, as a kind translates her thinking quite well.
of conversion system between di- In the Centralized Model, the
mensions, is another reason why, in a 20 http://www.ecodebate.com.br/2010/12/15/ movement goes from a few to many:
Desirable New World, there are inno- the Brazilian Census of 2010 shows that the number of all that is mass media, culture, con-
empty houses outstrips the housing deficit.
vative 4D+ metrics and indicators: envi- sumption, tourism, event; big cities,
21 See also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/
ronmental, social and cultural as well
newsbysector/banksandfinance/6722123/Bailing-out-the- 22 Enthusiasmo Cultural launched
as economic. banks-cost-5500-per-family.html and coordinates Crie Futuros.
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that inspires it our wikifuturos25, re- Why don't we dont we change the world? Why not?
veals that the desire of people is to Do we still have a dream28?
change the world?
make the best use of their time, as well The scientists, winners of the Blue
as to socialize and share. The idea of Crie Futuros27 was born on Planet Prize, a sort of Nobel Prize for
Desirable New World is the one January 1st 2007, during a mix of per- the Environment that has existed since
in which the mix, the middle way, the sonal crisis (I asked myself how do I the Rio Earth Summit, begin their text
resultant are sought. Clinging to polar- desire to live? And noticed that I for the Rio + 2029, reasserting that, yes,
ization is always a risk and perhaps the didnt know, I only knew how I had to they have a dream. Their dream ques-
best model is collaboration: a little of live) and the effect of having read tions the myth of eternal growth and
each of the above models, as repre- Massive Change, by the designer of the view that the green economy will
sented in the rhizome26. ideas Bruce Mau a collection of infor- be able to compatibilize the increasing
mation on technologies and people size of the economic system, with the
who participate in redesigning the limited resources of ecosystems.30
Rhizome.
world. With these issues in mind, and The green economy alone may not
preparing a lecture on the sixties, I de- succeed in becoming a solution for sus-
cided to begin one hundred years ear- tainability. However, Desirable New
lier to show how everything con- World believes that creative economy,
verged to a major leap of awareness multidimensional wealth and collabo-
and behavior that supposedly would ration are essential keys to make this
follow the effervescent events of the possible, so that we can design and
sixties and seventies. The outcome of live the better world we desire. May-
this mix of a new year, massive change be we have not yet changed the world
and the sixties brought up the same
28 The emblematic phrase by Martin Luther King:
25 www.criefuturos.com , with futures in the macro old question: if we have resources,
I have a dream
themes of this book knowledge and people to do so, why
29 http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/bpplaureates/
26 Model Inspired in Nature, proposed by Gilles
doc/2012jp_fp_en.pdf
Deleuze and Flix Guattari where the organization of
elements does not follow lines of hierarchical 30 http://radarrio20.org.br/index.php?r=site/
subordination and any element can supervene in the other. 27 Create Futures view&id=233404
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because we think it is impossible! Our and to enhance the logic and assumptions in boxes, or are woven into my text. Our
dream is that the futures we explore that we propose. guests also have their boxes. And the
next, created between 2008 and 201231 The futures from our collection, text or delicate illustrations by Angela Leon were
and often based on currently existing design, appear in their original wording, made especially for the book.
practices, may sway, inspire, motivate
and point the ways towards innova-
tions and oldieties.
How can one imagine any kind of life without women! questions are quite absurd! The people leave an empty space in their field to
Oh! So matrimony still exists? grow what the others need.
I dont know what matrimony means. Are there towns and cities?
Tell me all about robots and machines, I am dying of curiosity. Of course there are. And each town has its own festivity, distinct from all
Dont do that Mr. Disney, right now when you are just resuscitated, you are other festivals; each place has its own food, different from all the other foods,
going to die again? Look, I dont know what a robot is, Im sorry to disappoint each town has its own product different from all the other products, and many
you. And about the machines, I must tell you that many have been built in the products are required by all towns.
last years, but just a few have been useful , for instance the machine that shows All together we make up the whole.
us just like we are.
Oh! That already existed, its called X-Ray.
No sir, you do not understand understand: just as you are! I believe that at
the time they used to call it therapy or psychoanalysis, but they did it without
machines and it didnt bring about the expected result. Let me go on.
The machine to exterminate all machines was invented so that their tasks could
be carried out by men; the machine to clean space residues that blotted out the
stars; the machine that recycled human wastes and that which purifies the wa-
ter of our homes to be clean when it reached the rivers. I was going to tell you
that they also invented water fueled cars, but I remembered in time that they
were created in the 20th Century, although nobody is able to explain why they
didnt use them then.
With so few machines you must be very busy. How many hours a day do
people work?
Look, only 6 hours during half of the year.
Only half of the year? And what do they do the rest of the time?
They get to know places, help those in need, educate, inform. Come together
with other people to think about how to live better. I believe that now they are
busier living than surviving.
Let us not change the risk of dying from hanger,
Tell me about the land, what do they plant?
for the risk of dying from tediousness.
At what time? Where, Mr. Disney? One plants what one needs to live. Your Rogrio, Rio de Janeiro, 2011.
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stock exchange economics creative economy green economy
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2 Gain,
captulo
Valuate, Negotiate
In economics, it is easy to explain the past. Easier still is to predict the future.
Difficult to understand is the present.
Frase
Joelmir Beting
Autor
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1 If indeed about US$30 trillions were invested to save Science and Invention the invention is a Sleep
2 http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
enterprises of the financial system in 2008/2009 this
Eliminator, which allows user to live to work!!!
corresponds to one year of a monthly of more than 3 http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/06/09/
USA, 1923.
US$400, per inhabitant of the world. risk-quadrillion-derivatives-market-gdp/
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would result in US$171,429 per person, tures were monitored and adjusted by
or a one years monthly salary of society through DDCG: Direct Digital HSE: Human Stock Exchange
US$14,285 per earthling. Co-Governance. In June of this year, a Based on the following indexes:
And what would true wealth be? couple of historians presented a thesis 1 Index of Talent Expression;
We saw the spreading of the notion of at the Rio + 50, showing that the DDCG 2 Index of Transparency / Telepathy
wealth as Abundance that does not was made possible when global and 3 Index of Emotional Health or Playfulness;
4 Index of Material Detachment or Material
generate scarcity 4. A millionaires unrestricted access to ICTs resulted in
Balance;
wealth could then be abundant in better education, more transparent
5 Index of Affective Bonding;
money, but scarce in time or freedom; a procedures and, therefore, better abili- 6 Index of Reduced Extraction
job could warrant abundant security ty to choose and decide on the part of 7 Index of Beauty;
and lack of autonomy; an enterprise the population. This also led, in recent 8 Index of Kindness
could generate abundant dividends for decades, to the breaking of a historical Gabriel, Sonia Bosco, Camila Aragon, Elen
shareholders and scarce benefits for its pattern that they perceived, and nick- Igershemer, Monica Cristina Ladim, Woody,
community; or even, an international named crab dance. It was a pattern Laura, Helen Rose, Renata Proetti, Leatrice
expert could have abundant experience of advance and retreat that marked al- Cristina Affonso, Marilena Martins, Brazil, 2009.
and scarce connections. most rhythmically the last decades of
The major instability of the first the 20th and early 21st centuries see,
twenty years of this century led to pro- for example, the switching between
found and rapid change. In the twen- progressive and conservative govern-
ties, we witnessed a re-design of virtu- ments, which were curiously called
ally all areas of life, with a wide scope, right and left. That just before the
thanks to the process of technology extinction of the parties government
sharing and dissemination both the system, since they had become quite in-
hard tangibles and the soft intan- distinct in their purposes.
gibles. In the thirties, these new struc-
MULTI DIMENSIONAL WEALTH INDEX, From the results of 2017 in Africa, we can state that B) The set of wealth indicators, guided by the con-
A DESIRABLE FUTURE1 some vectors of this success were multi-sectoral man- cept of interdependence and human values, which,
The exercise below was created in November 2008, agement, interdisciplinary education, collaborative when encompassing the quadripod dimensions of In-
So Paulo, during the Global Latin America Forum, an production, networking and community empower- tegral Sustainability, promote balance between the
initiative started by the BAWB Business as Agent of ment. Today we can state the redefinition of wealth as material, tangible and the intangible aiming at the
World Benefit. After applying the Appreciative Investi- abundance that does not generate scarcity is a reality. quality of life.
gation Method the following step by step scenario
was built for 2020. If anything was possible, we project: C) Legislation and policies that transform and
MULTIDIMENSIONAL WEALTH INDEX: regulate economic and social flows that will enable
Aspirational Assertion: News in 2020 NEW INDICATORS, CURRENCIES AND FLOWS the application of the MWI.
The European Union, the last economic block to
adopt the Multidimensional Wealth Index (MWI), Aspirational Phrase: Involved:
consolidates the model developed by LAU Latin Multidimensional Indicators of wealth Multisectoral and Transdisciplinary Task Force to
American Union, and created based on the global generate Integral Sustainability for humanity draft the core of the process, which would then be
economic crisis of 2008. and the planet. developed by a multidisciplinary work group. Axes:
Both the set of indicators as well as the new sustainability, innovation, development, cooperation.
currencies of the MWI allow the balance in the man- Symbolic maquette made by the group inspirational Institutions whose work already approaches the
agement of the Integral Sustainability Quadripod: synthesis. Prototype: subject; selecting professionals of a transdisciplinary
the economic, environmental, social and c ultural de- Multidimensional Wealth Index includes: profile from education institutions (the environment,
velopment, measured by means of quantitative and law, commerce, culture, politics, development etc). In-
qualitative metrics. The new model in force, which A) Currencies/ metrics related to the quadripod cludes practitioners and researchers.
prioritizes human values and intangible resources of Integral Sustainability (environmental, social,
(knowledge, creativity and culture), achieves its ob- cultural and economic dimensions) that allow Indicators /Schedule
jective of generating public and p rivate policies measurement, evaluation, exchange. To measure de- Short Term:
based on the concept of interdependence and fo- velopment and sustainability only by the economic Preparatory Research:
cused on quality of life for mankind on the planet. value is like trying to measure liters with a ruler. Hu- Background: experiences and information on the
man and cultural capital; social capital, technological subject. Ex: Gross Happiness Index, Icons 2003 Con-
and environmental capital allow that cultural and ference, Sustainability Indicators of Nations and other
1 Know more about the Global Latin America Forum
natural diversity, solidarity, articulation, traditional publications, Creative Economy and Sustainable De-
in http://www.compendiosustentabilidade.com.br/
compendiodeindicadores/praticas/default.
knowledge and practices, creativity, can be integrate velopment, Solidarity Currencies.
asp?paginaID=27&conteudoID=345 into the equation of sustainable development.
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as oil or water) as well as for intangibles the remodeling of the space, but could
(such as knowledge and practices). Just not finance software, processes like The Pro-City Bank
as any process or product leaves a lega- Chef training courses. This is precisely presents its Pro Machine
cy (positive or negative) for the future, what adds value and a plus. A machine where citizens can deposit all proj-
be it tangible (such as solid waste) or in- In Brazil, the same change of focus ects that benefit the city will be inaugurated to-
tangible (such as knowledge yet to be on products / infrastructure to one of morrow. It will then conduct a viability study
systematized). We became sustainable focus on processes / systems manage- weighing feasibility, necessary funding, and
when the choices made in the present ment prevented the repetition of the benefits for the city.
For the selected projects, the Bank will facili-
were able to balance the use of the as- socio-economic and environmental mis-
tate not only the money needed, but also other
sets received from the past with the leg- takes of World Cup 2014. What to do
institutional, corporate, and any other relations
acy left for the future. One of the most with newly built or renewed spaces, needed. Interest will be reduced and will be
immediate results of this approach to previously without use, lacking mainte- proportional to the success of the project.
the economy, considering it as a process nance, content, management, or pub- Erica Sarchione and Florence Lucchesi,
in time, was the change in pricing: gaso- lic? How to succeed in having the re- Rosario, Argentina, 2010.
line, for example, whose value per liter sources of the event benefit a variety of
now includes the before time for oil local MSEs and not be concentrated in a
to form and the after rebalancing few large enterprises? For the Olympics legacy to the world. Still today, we are
environmental consequences. 2016, the biggest investments were in in awe at the originality of the stadiums
Compare what it means to under- intelligence and organization of collec- renewed by the samba schools, each
stand something from a photo or from tives qualify and prepare services, edu- one leaving its mark and creativity, a
a movie. For it was something similar cate, train managers, organize solidarity combination of colors and shapes that
that happened when we began to take networks and/or micro entrepreneurs was the very picture of the Brazilian
Time into account. Shifting from static who could meet the services demand. way of being that launched Collabora-
to dynamic is, for example, to work with Innovate by holding major events with- tive City Planning.
processes (dynamic) and not just with in a collaborative rationale, adopting
products (static). Previously, a bank that socio-cultural technologies in order to
would finance a restaurant could fund achieve low economic cost and high so-
hardware products such as stoves or cial outcomes this was the countrys
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4DxT ECONOMY: each resource received from the past or semble of results in each dimension is
Multidimensional outcome generated in the present. A D equal to the impact. These, when
/ symbolic- cultural resource, such as a added (or subtracted ...) generate the
Resources, Results, traditional dance; a D / environment re- 4DxT Total Impact which may be
and Values source, such as fruit trees; or a D / socio- negative or positive.
political resource, such as respect for Total Heritage plus (or minus) Total
Changes in the economic system are human rights will have final values pro- Impact give the Real 4DxT Value, which
still ongoing, and so it is best to explain portional to the Time coefficient, by is the real value of the future.
how it is being designed. In 4DxT Eco- which they were multiplied. Ex: Human Example, an enterprise may have
nomics, Time acts as a coefficient, a mul- rights respected for a longer period of this result:
tiplying factor for the value assigned to time, a higher value. (D / financial) Sales + 8
In 4DxT Economics, (D / environmental) Utilization of va-
the sum of the Resourc- cant spaces - 4
es of each dimension (D / socio-political) Reputation - 3
constitutes the Assets of (D / symbolic - cultural) Knowledge
that dimension. The to- management + 6
tal 4DxT Heritage is the The total is 8 - 4 - 3 + 6 = 7
sum of the tangible When speaking of Time it is crucial
assets (monetary finan- to highlight that our major advances
cial / solidary + environ- came from the perception that time is
ment natural / techno- much more than money. Anything
logical) and the that makes people, institutions, and
intangibles assets: so- venues happier and more evolved
cio-political and sym- takes place in Time: relate, learn,
bolic- cultural assets. create, care for, understand, taste. To
The same ratio- Optimize Time is more than to make
nale applies to the it more productive. We know that the
Results. The en- function of better management and
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part of the economy. The informal fitness centers with all their equipment,
Oikos + Nomia sector (but not necessarily unlawful) spaces, contents, props, etc. And thats
The new avatars of the economy are finally
grew more and more, parallel to the because we are referring only to the D /
abandoning their outdated economic theories
growth of entrepreneurship especial- financial aspects the importance of
that no longer serve to understand the new
ly in OrganoCollectives (groups oper- dancing increases even more when
practices carried out by communities. Individu-
als and communities have long found that eco- ating in a functional, but not legal or- its results and impacts on other 4DxT
nomics is a science of being, since etymological- ganization) payments were made in dimensions are verified.
ly, oiko is home and nomia is care. Thanks to this various currencies. Although much was Another factor that led to a change
awareness, exchange relationships are taking being done, there were increasingly in data collection was the amazing
place through the meaningful use of time in a fewer jobs. speed with which new professions and
shared and collaborative way. In the traditional economy, it was languages arose as the result of trans-
Leila Garcia, Sergio Barbosa and Jose Salvino possible to map and measure using lin- disciplinarity and the consequent need
Filho, Brazil, 2009. ear procedures, systematized as in a to connect different areas of knowl-
production chain. For instance, from the edge and expertise. The old taxo-
cotton thread to the T-shirt. The central- nomic standard that tried to create
MacroSEES with more abundant D / so- ity of the Green Economy and the Cre- codes for every type of activity could no
cio-political resources, but scarce D / en- ative Economy made it necessary to longer be maintained. Already in the
vironmental and other resources that evaluate and measure complex systems. mid-twentieth century, for areas linked
have an abundance of D / symbolic-cul- Both the sectoral notion and the lin- to creativity, it was difficult to classify
tural and D / financial scarcity. To further earity no longer applied. A trivial exam- people and projects according to the
reduce the disparity, international trade ple: when measuring the formalized existing codes. An outcome of this in-
is designed to balance scarcity and sur- sector of dance, we would reach a small creasing failure to fit knowledge and
plus, rather than accentuate them. value; maybe the meager sum of danc- professions into closed and predeter-
Economic 4DxT data collection ers, choreographers, and performances. mined areas was the reformulation of
evolved considerably compared to ear- But the economy of dance is very higher education. In the Pluriversities
lier forms, essentially capable of col- large, because it includes popular festiv- convergence replaced specialization;
lecting quantitative and sectoral evi- ities (like Carnival), celebrations (such as discipline menus are offered (and not
dence and corresponding to the formal parties and weddings), nightlife, and closed curricula), and since information
G ain , Valuate, N egotiate 39
is available everywhere, they have in- Activation Function: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle(22)17,
creasingly become practice labs. the more we dedicate ourselves to
Moreover, in the beginning of the from absolute value knowing the position (space / form) of
21st century, it became clear that sus- to relative value an electron, the less we will know about
tainable development took place at lo- its momentum (time / process) and vice
cal level, in the territories, and this fur- To map and measure the intangible, us- versa. Similarly, it was found to be more
ther contributed to gradually put aside ing measuring tools and methods de- efficient to map the new economy from
the sectoral concept. The 4DxT logic vised to measure things, is not very ef- its dynamic aspect (momentum / pro-
and tools allowed the territories (now ficient. Creating an analogy, clouds are cess) than its form (position / quantities),
called MicroSEES Micro Socio- Envi- not mapped in the same way as moun- since areas related to intangibles are
ronmental Ecosystems) to be studied tains, but instead, by studying their be- characterized by their accelerated and
under a multidimensional volumetric havior. Approaches similar to the calcu- constant change of form. After conclud-
rationale. It was possible to have a geo- lation and study of climate where the ing a measurement of that reality, it no
referenced reading, where 4DxT layers interactions and dynamics are registered longer exists the cloud has moved.
were superimposed on satellite images. were adopted to measure the intangi- When studying the behavior
Readings of images are produced by ble. We made good progress when the more than the form, it was found
the flow of data in time (as in visualiza- quantum concepts became more pres- that fields of activity have different acti-
tions16 of data), or a combination of ent in everyday life (imagine, that in the vating potentials. Some can activate
both. It was actually possible to have a 10s, almost one hundred years after their surroundings, boosting other busi-
true organic perception of the territo- their formulation, schools still only ness areas, while others only generate
ries and their processes appeared as or- taught Newtonian physics). As such, an jobs. Compare, for instance, the unifor-
gans of a living system highlighting analogy between the Particles of quan- mity of an old industrial neighborhood
their ecosystem character. tum physics and Tangibles (the basis of to the variety of a current creative terri-
traditional economy) was observed, and tory. Some cause environmental dam-
between Intangibles (the basis of Cre- age, others qualify those who produce
ative Economy) and Energy, strengthen- and those who consume, creating or
ing the need to further study behav-
16 http://www.webdesignerdepot.
com/2009/06/50-great-examples-of-data-visualization/ ior rather than form. According to the 17 Statement of quantum physics postulated in 1927
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BB From products to processes: Our interpersonal trust, which in turn builds century: diversity, decentralization,
dreams of the past showed a future where social capital. And the key to develop- and autonomy. Many are used to con-
invented technology and products were ment is social capital which we usually nect different areas and languages,
the solution for everything. Today, we lack. Trust and social capital are created especially in the 4DxT Sustainability
know that technology is a means, not an by valuing the positive, cultural diversity, context.
end, and this further reinforced the need internal talents, and all that strengthens
for processes: to change the way of think- cooperation.
ing and doing. BB Time, the only non-renewable
BB Modems and connectors: In the 20th resource: The new technologies have let
century telecommunications and comput- us conquer space and quantity: in the first
ing evolved thanks to modems and decades, we were enchanted with the pos-
hubs, and their ability to integrate and sibility of being in many places, simultane-
link different languages and systems. In ously. For that, we lost time and quality...
this 21st century, the change to the cen- Today, institutions not only help us to opti-
trality of intangibles and creative economy mize time, but to rescue and enhance the
was possible only due to professionals and enjoyment, intensity, and direction we
institutions that act as modems, as con- were losing.
nectors. The new professionals profile is BB Choices and Consequences: In the
to be a modem able to connect multi- first decade of this century, information
ple disciplines, several areas within the and demand overload, lack of time, and
enterprise and accomplish the necessary the urgency to attain sustainability made
integration between government and knowing how to choose and be aware of
business sectors. the consequences of each act a priority.
BB Social capital, trust, self-esteem: Institutions, then, had to devise and pro-
Areas of the institution that collaborate to vide tools to make this possible.
create a climate of self confidence and self The diversification of occupations A Professional of the Futures is multi, trans, poly, to
esteem of people, communities, enter- of the past decades is remarkable and carry out the function of connector. Elvis Gonzalez,
Dominican Republic, 2010.
prises, cities are strategic. This builds consistent with the main trends of our
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Only things that matter, The New Motoboys Promoter Of Socio-Economic and Environmental
nothing urgent Motoboys still exist today, but with new func- Feasibility Assess and plan the lessening of
In the near future, the enterprise will only be- tions, since the delivery of documents and pack- economic, social, and environmental impacts in
come involved with clients and projects that ages now uses systems that track who is near- various value chains, and at all spheres.
have the power to transform or create sustain- est to the venue to make the delivery. Tourism Specialist In Environmental and Biodiversity
able and lasting relationships between brands has grown, as well as the number of elderly Services Economy In charge of appraising
and people. Relevance of the cause proposed people: motoboys are also tourist guides (who nature and biodiversity services for territorial
and the clients time constraint will define the knows the city better?), or take the elderly planning and licensing.
projects position within a matrix that will tell us where they want to go. Note that both functions
whether we should or not get involved in the require careful and attentive driving! Sustainable Flow Entrepreneur Creates un-
project. If the cause is relevant and the time avail- Felipe Jordani, Brazil, 2012. dertakings that, simultaneously, solve collective
able for the project is compatible with the time issues and generate social and environmental
needed by the team to develop it calmly, carefully, results and wealth for investors. Considers that
and confidently, the enterprise will take it. If one flow is what must be achieved and interdepen-
of these prerequisites of importance without ur- Motoboys in their dence is its perspective.
new functions.
gency is not met, the proposal is rejected. Energy Researcher Develops energy solu-
Angela Len, 2012.
Roberto and Ana, 2010. tions of all kinds for all types of processes, in-
cluding food.
Others are related to the new has grown since our historians rescued
international scenario of increasing this amazing story of 2007, when Sev-
mobility where we live and work in erino Manoel de Souza assembled a
various countries. Community Library, and Jose Luis Za-
One of the most active categories gati showed movies for free at the Knowledge Pickers:
Since they circulate everywhere, they are also
today are NGIs Non-governmental In- Tupy Film Club. Both stood on the ce-
pollenizers of knowledge: by circulating books
dividuals, people who engage in public ment slab of their small house and
and other cultural products wherever they go.
causes and bear witness to an extraor- were built with materials that had
Their carts are equipped with sound, books, toys,
dinary power to carry out the transfor- been discarded20. everything recycled from junk.
mation of individuals. The movement Alterity is a guiding principle for Julia Toro, Fernando P. Tohm and Bella Zubbelis,
all kinds of activities, and institutions Brazil, 2009.
always seek to develop dynamics to re-
inforce them. The more people are
Cultural Facilitator able to understand the function of
Accompanies people so they can learn to live by each one of them, the broader their
the culture of a host country other than theirs, to overview of the whole institution and
foster awareness and enrich global culture. the better the flows. And finally, the
Remains in a given country for 3 months;
mood has become an important ele-
Interacts with people who share the same
ment of any workplace and profession.
interests;
In the past, there used to be a time to
Broad historical, political, and social
knowledge; work and a time to live. Today, as
Ability as a communicator; we do what we like and believe in the
Permanently connected with stakeholders; purpose of what we produce, joy, plea-
Supported by government; sure, relaxation, and play are part of
Sensitive to interpersonal interests. our daily lives.
Edgar Morales and Jose Aaldana,
Mexico, 2010.
20 See the video by Averaldo Nunes Rocha and Mrcio
Sno Mitio Konno, 2007, showing these stories.
G ain , Valuate, N egotiate 47
the lists of such countries with those developed most green technologies
with a better quality of life, something and bigger creative market. To avoid
that encouraged other countries to hegemony, other countries followed
change their military forces into Caring suit. And fast!
Forces. The social, environmental, cul-
tural and especially economic immedi- Transdisciplinary Participative
ate benefits were so significant that Meritocracy
more and more countries are adopting We had the Great Bubble of 2013 and
this strategy. The level of social wel- the turmoil that followed it, the Global
fare attained by small countries was Data Blackout, which almost ended in a
one of the reasons leading to the de- Third World War, but was fortunately
signing of the current decentralized avoided, since connectivity and extend-
management mechanisms, whereby ed access to real time information made
big cities, or countries, are managed in citizens more aware of the power
smaller units. After all, a sprawling games going on around the world. This
shantytown in So Paulo had more same access allowed the Web communi-
inhabitants than Iceland. ty and its good hackers to retrieve at
Wiki Agora: Public Spaces intended for the free
Still in the first decade of this cen- least part of the lost data.
production of knowledge and decision making.
tury, China adopted Creative Economy Two years after the Arab Spring, Reinaldo Pamponet and Thomaz Buckup, Brasil, 2009.
and Green Economy4 as priority strate- there came the European Summer; af- Illustration Odete Arias, Dominican Republic, 2010.
gies, realizing that to restore the envi- ter one and a half year, the Latin-
ronment and balance internal tensions American Autumn; and, finally, the
they were the key to prosperity. This Asian Winter; and season after season,
was done very quickly and efficiently, year after year, the real democracy from the not compartmentalized, sys-
and it soon became the country that movements pushed for change. temic management that follows the
The experience began with Trans- same organic and biomimetic outlook
4 See at http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/ disciplinary Participatory Meritocracy. that had guided other decision-making
Worldbank/document/China-2030-complete.pdf The name Transdisciplinary comes spheres. Each Management Unit is
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ry, it started with movements such as other games and sports. Imagine all Law that assures the level of
the Transparency Hacker6, where civil the transformation potential available, sensitivity of future leaders
society collaborated with time and when people monitor a vote on re- The World Council met to define the only way to
knowledge to make public data visible form with the same enthusiasm shown choose leaders.
and accessible. for their team! Or, when people en- Applications are prohibited. Leaders will be nom-
An important element in this gage themselves in the study of ele- inated by their communities, among those who:
humbly value the enormous responsibility of
game was the abundant use of the ments of public administration with
human beings on the planet; to have lived by
cognitive surplus of inmates: madmen, the same interest they pay to a knee
the conviction that the sum of collective knowl-
with their creativity and freedom; injury of a football star.
edge is the solution for problems; to have
those linked to organized crime, with The day when cheerleaders, with worked in community; to have graduated in
their ability for leadership, managerial their shirts and firecrackers, took to the School of Global Culture;
talent, commitment, and holistic out- the streets to celebrate the transfor- David Anica and Guillermo Dignani,
look. To the extent that these skills mation of Military Forces into Care Rosario, Argentina, 2010.
were targeted for positive action, Forces is unforgettable. It was amaz-
these people were able to decrease ing to see the ripples of holas and the
their debt to society by means of the chants Education is my champion!
positive scores of their 4dxT Footprints Education, in my heart! in front of From inmates to doctors
The more intense the Game of Congress. Or, in the same way we In 10 years, individuals who were arrested and
Governance, the more fun and the heard Goooooal echoing every- convicted will be monitored by qualified profes-
more fans. The goals were many: over- where in the city we now hear Apro- sionals and will be given learning, education,
love, awareness of the importance of the family
throw a corrupt politician; retrieve a voooooved because the voting is
and of self-awareness in society. The inmate
head of organized crime; mobilize for followed by the people, online, and on
would be released, trained to have another out-
forestry code approval; improve bud- electronic screens. Inside pubs, men look on the world, and would be thus fit for rein-
get distribution; forge alliances and gathered to follow the score of nego- tegration in society, a space that is common to
partnerships. Slowly, people were bet- tiations and chanted Go, go! Close all. Only through knowledge and education can
ter balancing the time allocated to this partnership! Move On! Cut that society and general attitude be changed.
budget. Of course, this all happened Sormani Medina, Marcia Regina Silva and
6 http://thacker.com.br while having organic and locally pro- Claudia Niza, Campinas, Brazil, 2010.
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duced beer and peanuts, perched on ment: the more positive their 4DxT- A systemic and collaborative view,
stools with foot pedals that generate footprints, the greater the weight of in real time, allowed us to move to-
energy through movement, voting and his choice. Thats how we freed our- wards the current DDCG-Direct Digital
choosing over their smart phones and selves from the dynamics where a vote Co-Governance model. The model is
other mobile devices. without a ballast of knowledge and still incipient, but is more decentral-
awareness would eventually produce ized and pluralistic than the Transdisci-
Commitment and 4DxT Policies authoritarian governments and would plinary Participatory Meritocracy, and
As the 4DxT economy had multidimen- not be directed to the common good. is more strongly focused on the micro,
sional and relative values, in 4DxT Poli- The 4DxT Footprints also rein- local level, where the processes of
tics the vote of each citizen had a forced the transparency and trust change actually occur. There was an in-
weight proportional to his commit- among all spheres and this, together version: the former municipalities were
with the possibilities of the network serving the nation and were ruled by
society, led to the development of an it. Today, the MacroSEEs are networks
extraordinary collaborative system of of MicroSEEs and policies are decided
Interactivity and Decision-Making visualization and monitoring of public locally, both to ensure diversity (the
The system of decision via interactive TV by re- and private data. differential that guarantees the value
mote control through individual IPs is increas- Data are fed by the citizens them- of each locality) and to streamline de-
ingly effective. selves and generate maps of environ- cision-making and action. The Macro
After the amendment proposed by the Govern- mental, symbolic cultural, sociopoliti- jurisdiction serves as a facilitator and
ment a month ago and debate broadcast by cal, economic MicroSEE, and their organizer of the flow between them.
various experts, the people decided today, by a whole the Macro Socio-environmen- What was formerly the State is now
landslide, that it will be prohibited to drive a tal Ecosystems. This multidimensional called Macro Moderator (MM), be-
motor vehicles less than 600m away from approach enables detailed and dynam- cause its role is to facilitate, articulate,
beaches and conservation areas. ic reading that facilitates understand- and regulate flows and decision-mak-
The measure will be tested for three months,
ing of the geosociopolitical physiology ing among all parties involved.
after which the people will have the final say.
of each of these Management Units.
Edward Nartin and Roberta Pinheiro,
Brazil, 2010.
The system allows reading each one of
its layers together or separately.
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There from appeared the Micro (lo- to be a sensory organ that provides in- practically out of the lexicon, since they
cal) and Macro (national) SEE - Social formation to guide choices. imply a perception of weakness or lack
and Environmental Ecosystems. Their This also brought about changes in of capabilities on the part of those who
boundaries are organic and functional, International Cooperation that now are supported. Cooperation always
similar to membranes, or skin: to pro- have quite distinct processes. Terms such takes place by exchange: for example,
tect, regulate exchanges, and above all, as help or capacity building are the population that receives financial
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support (increasingly rare) should de- forming skills: to train young people to Planning, Long-term,
vote time to educational processes in deal with ICT and recycle electronics, lo-
Commitment
exchange. The Cooperation processes cal agents of the creative economy; pro-
are almost always direct, without inter- grammers helping to visualize public Studies conducted in Brazil10, in 2005;
mediation of the State, to facilitate ac- data; collaborative production of show that the country was wasting as
tions and to optimize resources. They knowledge and tools for health care much as 150% of its GDP. Everything
occur mainly through currencies other work, with humor; joint efforts, in the produced waste: food thrown away11;
than financial ones, since these created form of contests, for the construction of time lost in traffic jams12; bureaucracy
relations of dependency, corruption and leisure facilities, permaculture, organic preventing problem solving; energy
correlated problems. The most common family farming, low-tech technologies9. wasted in distribution networks still op-
support is through Soft technologies Today, the only remaining passport erating in the old centralized / mono
sharing: sociocultural technologies to is the Youth Passport: with it, young model, based on huge or hydroelectric
strengthen social capital (so that it can people can learn about, try, and work in power plants. Soon after Rio + 20, more
enable the other capitals) and utiliza- all types of activity before choosing the incentives were given for the creation
tion of the local symbolic and cultural ones (yes, because nobody has only one) of small networks of energy production,
heritage. The shared experiences derive they will engage in. This process took local and combined sources: mini hydro-
from the good practices of non-govern- place between what was once called electric, wind, solar, and kinetic plants.
mental organizations and social enter- college and admission into the Pluriv-
prises that simultaneously generate en- ersities, and it helps them to make a
trepreneurial, cultural, educational, and good choice: to do what they like and 10 http://www.intranet.rj.gov.br/exibe_pagina.
social results. believe in. asp?id=1804
A very successful experiment was 11 The world already produces enough food for
everyone. In Brazil, between planting and the table, 50%
Creatives Without Borders8,a caravan
of edibles are wasted http://www.ecodebate.com.
of collectives and collaborative institu- br/2009/11/12/o-brasil-esta-entre-os-10-paises-que-mais-
tions that contribute sharing their trans- desperdicam-comida-no-mundo/
Network Holistics
The facilitator and mediator of interactive cul-
tural networks is a leader with a holistic view.
He has the ability to see and use the richness of
each individual, thus enhancing the human capi-
tal. In this network, everybody can co-create
and become co-authors of projects and process-
es-always detached from institutions-both au-
tonomous and creative. Thus, sharing a common
house (the network) and the potential of each
one, the leader would circulate and distribute
potential and capital (in all senses), establishing
new paradigms and decentralizing the economy.
Vivian Hirsch, Melina Roldan, Suzana Ferreira,
Vanessa Reis, Tai Masi, Silvia Sa, Patricia de
Souza, Mariana Costa, Claudia Cezar and
Crie Futuros Comics Competition. Figuira Rio +20 as seen by Beatriz Rocha, Brazil, 2011.
Diana Castro, Brazil, 2009.
One of the first steps toward sus- important as saving water or reducing agement of tangible and intangible
tainability was to expand the notion of waste. Prioritization of joy, environ- resources was the abolishment of par-
waste, considering not only tangible but ments of trust and autonomy were some ties, since repeated changes of gov-
also intangible resources, such as time, of the strategies used to avoid wasting ernment administrations brought
ideas, and knowledge. It was then that enthusiasm and good faith. about huge waste. Today, policies and
saving human energy finally became as An important factor in the man- planning are agreed upon by the com-
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cultivation, the MM should guarantee Nodes within their respective fields of factors that brought about the global
seeds (recognize, value, and preserve action. It also carries out partnerships financial crisis which, fortunately, we
the four-dimensional heritage), and a with private enterprises, associations, managed to resolve. Today, in a system-
step that usually goes unnoticed: pre- civil society organizations, and Pluriver- ic and sustainable outlook, 4DxT man-
paring the ground. sities to ensure sustainability. agement includes the steps related to
An important aspect of preparing Sustainable attitudes in the eco- the before and after of resources
the ground is Advocacy13: to work on nomic dimension imply focus on im- received from the past and the legacy
cultural and mindset changes (intangi- proving income distribution and use not for the future14. Instead of the linear
ble) that precedes each structural only of financial, monetary tools, but production chain, we work with the no-
change; forge partnerships and allianc- also those related to solidarity economy tion of Cycles, which are closed by the
es; communication campaigns and pro- and alternative currencies. In the envi- systematization of experience in the
vide information to the media. Interest- ronmental dimension, dealing with form of indicators, data, and research
ingly, this stage does not exhaust clean and renewable natural resources that may feed the next Cycle.
material resources, but generates many and sharing infrastructure such as space,
results by identifying potentials and equipment, and service networks. In the
how best exploit them. sociopolitical dimension, optimizing
In a 4DxT government policies time, resources, and information
should have a systemic (multi-sectoral through integrated and converging ac-
and transversal) outlook and the main tion among institutions. Finally, in the
objective is to propose activities that symbolic-cultural dimension, our re-
culminate in the creation of a favorable sources for the economy are preserva-
environment for Green Economy and tion and enhancement of cultural diver-
Creative Economy. To achieve these ob- sity and the centrality of intangibles.
jectives, the Macro Moderator promotes The focus on sustainability re-
joint and integrated action between vealed a gap in traditional manage-
the Transdisciplinary Management ment, which considered only the pres-
ent: production, distribution, and
13 Term corresponding to defense and dissemination of 14 For more info research the economist Jos Eli da
a concept consumption. This gap was one of the Veiga, among others
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Mesh Management: come the existing deficiencies. The stu- progress of the so-called developing
dents already graduate with extensive countries. By avoiding the mistakes of
Use What You Have
practical involvement, which did not the 20th centurys neo-liberals they went
In recent decades we have witnessed happen before, because they start ap- from a situation of backwardness
the passing from of Centralized/Mono plying their knowledge from the begin- leaping straight into the 21st century. In
to Decentralized / Pluri Patterns, pos- ning. Students in vocational education these instances it was interesting to
sible thanks to the network societys and pluriversitary training prepare local note that backwardness was the op-
characteristics, to the focus on intangi- teams on how to use ICTs, carry out re- portunity, because their environmen-
bles, and trust as a premise for com- search based on actual needs, act as Lo- tal, cultural, and symbolic heritages
mercial and interpersonal relations. cal Agents of Furtherance. Excellent re- were still preserved. Progress was due
Actually, the same happened with the sults were obtained with the adoption to the fact that this type of policy and
government and, today, the Mesh 15 of Convergence as the guideline-an- collaborative action of the Macro Mod-
concept of sharing applies also to other hallmark of modern times, when erator does not require cash money, just
Mesh Management. The basic princi- compared to past compartmentalizing. alliances. A double benefit, because
ple is the same one that guided the The number of programs and projects without the involvement of cash there
great changes in our society: to work implemented based on the conver- was less proneness to corruption, and
on potencies and not on shortages, gence of pluriversity research was more alliances strengthened institution-
creating better operation systems than amazing. For example, Coursework al relationships. That means simultane-
the existing ones. Completion (CWC), where students ous work with the two key factors:
Example: suppose that in a Macro- converged on the same subject. Lets strengthening of ethics and social capi-
SEE, there is lack of appropriate person- take CCWs of a 4DxT Environmental En- tal. All this is leveraged and possible
nel, management is carried out by em- gineering class: this convergence would thanks to the priority given to truly
ployees without technical qualification. allow each student to approach an as- widespread access to ICTs, one of the
In this case partnerships are established pect to be improved and the sum of priorities recommended in the Sustain-
with educational institutions to over- work would lead to a systemic solution able Measures Post-Rio + 20.
for that location. The prevailing rationale is to check
15 Concept created by Lisa Gansky: it means joining
This rationale of working on poten- whats in place and how it can be better
points in a sharing economy. See their Manifest in http://
meshing.it/manifesto_mesh_eng.pdf
cies, with what is available, triggered used. Previously, (since the Pyramids!)
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reintroduced) and books which have Innovation and ing, Internet. There are wi-fi networks in
been read go out. The same enterprises all public spaces and even the MicroSEEs
that make deliveries remove the objects Soft and Low-tech have telecenters. At the beginning of
for reuse: who brought the new stove Technologies the century, Internet Cafes, especially in
takes away the old stove to the Central low-income communities used refur-
from where they are redistributed. Of course with Creative Economy and bished computers and played a very im-
Following this rationale of check- Green Economy as priorities, and all the portant role. Still today, they are a major
ing what there is and not what is lack- progress that followed it, was only pos- source of income generation, fostering
ing, it became evident that public ad- sible thanks to widespread access to encounter and exchange.
ministration is also important to take ICTs. Almost 20 years have gone by since For the older generation was some-
oldeities into account and not just all children in all countries of the world what difficult to make the transition to
innovations; many of the solutions have simple computers and modems for full use of ICTs, but children helped
needed for our sustainable and desir- Internet access. Even countries with no them a lot. The Intergenerational Learn-
able world existed at some point in electric power adopted local solutions ing Programs were very successful: the
time, and were retrieved. This recovery -from solar cells to bicycle powered elderly learned with young people how
was stressed by a movement similar to computers -to ensure this access. The to deal with digital technologies and
the Opening of Drawers with regard to use of mobile devices enabled every citi- taught skills - after all, nowadays they
government projects: the Movement zen of the planet to be connected. We offer great job opportunities.
for Retrieval of Inventions and Patents. have become points of a major network The enormous changes of the re-
Discoveries that had been shelved be- throughout the planet, a network that cent decades would not be possible
cause they were not very profitable communicates, delivers data, shares without the conceptual change regard-
were recovered and put into practice, outlooks and, above all, is able to feel ing innovation. Because in all previous
such as vehicles powered by water, or the pulse of the planet - careful to safe- centuries the emphasis had been on the
herbal medicine. guard its sustainable state. structural, tangible, innovation was
For over fifteen years, access to the considered just when it referred to
Internet has been part of the basic ser- things, inventions, gadgets - what we
vices provided by the Macro Moderator call hard innovation and technology.
State: water, electricity, sanitation, clean- When studying what caused the prog-
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ress of some countries, the relation beginning of the century, they be- Knowledge database
with a greater appreciation of the came aware that to be a supplier of In 2020, the government launches a project,
soft, procedural technologies and in- commodities and consumer of infra- where students are catalysts of experiences in
novations, and management16 related structure was not a route toward de- their communities. The goal is to recruit and re-
to intelligence was son detected. velopment for the creative economies ward public school students to investigate and
The Macro Moderator must be peculiar to the 21st century. know the residents of their community, their
careful not to set anachronistic poli- In Soft Innovation there is unity knowledge, and creative and innovative projects,
cies, since its role in the 21st century is between formal and informal knowl- to organize this content in a large network of
utilities and knowledges, which are catalogued
to enable the future and thus should edge and innovative products and ser-
to be shared with other communities.
not be driven by immediacy, becoming vices incorporate models, old habits, and
Eduardo Giacommazi and Ronaldo Gonalves,
solely concerned with the demands of traditions that continue to be updated So Paulo, 2009.
the present. As such, innovation must and useful. The symbolic-cultural heri-
be considered as beyond and above tage is alive, dynamic and unique, to be
product and infrastructure, and should enjoyed by native and foreign popula-
prioritize process innovation, guided tions. In management and marketing veloping mechanisms to identify and
by knowledge and management. In- models, there is also innovation, by in- disseminate these innovations. Its ex-
novation that relies on cultural diver- corporating collaborative principles and ample was followed by several other
sity, the dynamism of traditions, the other forms of collective action. countries and the results are wide-
experiences of the third sector on the The new innovation concepts in- ranging: hundreds of devices to facili-
generation of creative products and clude and value oldeities and low tate agriculture; eyeglass frames with
services. It appears that until recently tech, recognizing the genius of cre- photoelectric cells for nighttime read-
the more developed countries were ative solutions developed at low-cost ing; shoes with a dynamo in the soles
those that focused on intelligence and by low-income populations. India17 ag- to collect energy from movement, and
management relegating the produc- gregated the government, NGOs, en- all sorts of inventions based on bicycles:
tion to emerging countries. At the trepreneurs, and public schools in de- from the e-bike to the pedal-powered
respiratory device18.
16 See the studies of Jin Zhouying, Diretor of CTISS, 17 In government http://www.nif.org.in/; in civil
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,Beijing. http://www. society http://www.sristi.org; in entrepreneurship: http:// 18 See reference at http://www.idisc.net/en/
worldbusiness.org/about/fellows/zhou-ying-jin/ west.gian.org/ Article.38950.html
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out two interesting ideas: the first is The extended discussion on what
that this classificatory Law followed could be crimes against humanity led to
the process of classifying everything the revision of many of the everyday is-
that marked the 18th and 19th centu- sues of the pre-sustainability phase,
ries. Before ecology, the study of life such as eating habits, hegemonies, ma-
itself was highly taxonomic, directed nipulation of information, restriction of
more to morphology than to physiolo- patents. We even found a register of
gy. The second is that the old Constitu- 2009 citing that predatory financism
tions and laws were formulated to de- was a mechanism of mass extermina-
fend ownership; the State and not the tion22. From expansion of the concepts
people; having and not being; individ- of common heritage of humanity de-
uals and not human collectivity. Re- rived the concepts of assets in multiple
member that the first time the hu- dimensions, initially referring to the en-
man family is mentioned in Law was vironmental, followed by the social, un-
in the Universal Declaration of Human til reaching the final 4DxT design.
Rights, 1948. Only in the nineties, of Returning to the theme of taxo-
the 20th century, did national constitu- nomic vs. systemic, from the 20s on, we
tions begin to include, for example, witnessed a massive overhaul of the ju-
the notion of humanity. This oc- diciary, which had to be simplified and
curred in two aspects: crimes against streamlined. Data show that in Brazil,
humanity and common heritage of in 2010, the country had 86.623 million
humanity21 and many of the reformu-
lations we have today were a result of 22 Lecture onInnovation for Human Security, by
the expansion of these concepts. David Harries, of the Canadian Defense Academy and
Foresight Canada, 10/12/2009, 6th International Conference
on Innovation and Management, PUC, So Paulo.
21 See the text on the subject by the lawyer Mireille 23 http://adperj.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/2373555/ Games only for amusement, in which
Delmas-Marty, chapter 8, A Religao dos brasilia-brasil-tem-86-6-milhoes-de-processos- there are no winners. Isabela Correia
Saberes,organized by Edgar Morin, 1999 emandamento and Castro, FILE, Rio de Janeiro, 2011.
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Technology for Peace. Ricardo Millen, Every large city should have huge screens along its avenues displaying cultural activities from other countries.
FILE, Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Gabriel Castillo, Randy Encarnacin, Dominican Republic, 2009.
ongoing processes, which meant 2.2 judges25. In the process of simplifying Another factor that allowed this
cases per inhabitant24. Obviously, there the Courts of Common Sense at the lo- simplification was to leave aside the
was not enough time or staff to resolve cal level, were very effective, since a sig- taxonomic Law, with its thousands of
them. The number of cases greatly nificant number could be resolved by laws, to go back to the Fundamental
increased each year, but not that of applying the common sense shown by Principles that could guide the actions.
ordinary citizens. This process came together with the
trend to abandon morphological (clas-
24 http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/presidencia/noticias/
noticia_visualiza.php?id_noticia=1766
25 http://www.lunazonta.com.br/ sify situations and types) and stride to-
brasileiro-gasta-r-17704ano-para-manter-o-judiciario
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Replay Sheet-computer, solar powered, with holographic images and Internet access 3.0.
26 http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/ Tetsu Takita, Rio de Janeiro, 2009.
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1 http://www.transit.es/; http://www.asceps.org/ 2 A concept that is applicable to everything that belongs to the collective
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Only the older generation remembers how it was to govern in the past. It meant The dreamers
to manage fear. Exercise power, a male power, uniform, indifferent to human Dreamers are children from zero to 99 years of age. Literally. Eyes full of the
needs, autistic. The future was being built with the bricks of ancient fear, that evil future of newborn. Eyes full of wisdom of the elderly, just as the concentric
has always prevailed over good and that the human beings capacity for trans- circles of an aged tree. Often dreams are collective and they slowly impreg-
formation was dormant, a mirror broken into a thousand irreconcilable pieces. nate the awareness of the community. Crazy dreams have stopped wars, rec-
onciled fiendish peoples, and stopped destruction of the Amazon.
Dreamers of futures were dangerous because they moved against the cur-
rent. The fate of dreamers was that of heretics, madmen or clowns, different The rainbow days
names for the same personage: the one that looks around and wants to Each person dedicates a variable number of days per year to collaborate in
change the world. community causes. Its easy to know when someone is on a rainbow day: he
walks around with a happy smile lighting up his face. Some say that the
Freeing oneself from the tyranny of common sense rainbow causes are inefficient and should be replaced by professionalized
We were subjected to a lesser god, that of practical reason and its narrow (and mandatory) services. These initiatives will never prosper. Efficiency is an
limits of reality. overestimated value, it is a relic of the excesses of rationality. If the rainbow
day assessed the contribution to the collective happiness, it would be one of
We need to change everything, for everything to change the more luminous initiatives.
Three generations ago, the polar ice cap melted and the world said enough. We
were flooded not only with water, but also with hope. We felt the responsibility Distributors of hugs
to do something before it was too late. With the energy of seven billion people These are special beings, empathic, that people seek like a shade on a hot
convinced that it was urgent and possible to drastically transform the state of day. There are professional distributors, and adepts who embrace on the
mind in relation to the future. In view of the pretentiously rational and always rain-bow days. Sometime it might be kind of embarrassing, but indeed, it is
threatening, discourse of the scribes of power, people discovered that dreaming always pleasant to receive a smile and a hug or two...
was a revolutionary weapon. Together we can change. Break the bonds.
1 www.ekinconsulting.com
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How lucky that we put our differences aside to create a better world. Crie Futuros Comics Contest. Alejo Curuchet Salvarey, Uruguai, 2011.
TAGS: city planning architecture design fashion
energy neighborhoods planned cities
ecovillages transportation distribution
If we dont change our direction were likely to end up where were headed.
Chinese proverb.
78 desirable new world
Happiness
Cars are no longer the central axis in the
design of cities, which now focus on Na- Square Energy = Movement. RAI, 2008.
ture, on people, and on how to make
them happier. This, by the way, has leys, doors open and receptive, people
been a public commitment since the talking on every corner contribute to
Science and Mechanics, USA, 1932. 4DxT GNH2 the four dimensional in- the GNH 4DxT; nets of collaborative, af-
dex of Gross National Happiness the fectionate, and lively relationships.
CITIES1 new way of measuring the wealth of However, behind the threatening,
nations. Studies on the subject revealed guarded walls of the wealthy neighbor-
The present is the outcome of past the mistake made in the 20th century, hoods, the GNH 4DxT decreases, be-
dreams: it takes quite a while for ideas which confused privacy and autonomy cause high levels of loneliness, bore-
to come off the drawing board and be- with isolation and individualism bring- dom, loss of autonomy were recorded
come gain life. ing about much unhappiness. In the due to excessive protection and the in-
Those uniform, closed, aseptic, mir- communities (formerly called shanty
rored skyscrapers were dreams of the towns) groups of children playing in al- Profession: Processor of Emotions
first half of the 20th century. Today, in While flying over the cities to take a poll on
2042, the city reflects the dreams of the 2 GNH Index of Gross National Happiness, replaces peoples emotions and feelings, the processor
GDP Gross Domestic Product. Here our concept of 4DxT is of emotions has the power to seize them and
21st century: they are fun, irregular, col-
added: indicators organized to balance the four
orful, diverse, changeable, with organic distribute them according to demand, taking
dimensions: economic, environmental, socio-political, and
shapes and materials. An external re- symbolic-cultural. See article Nobel defends the creation more joy and amusement to those who are sad
of a Happiness Index, Folha de So Paulo, April 3, 2012. and depressed.
1 We start from here, because since 2011, most of the http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ambiente/1070841-premio- Raymundo Barros and Helio Fernandez Jnior,
worlds population has been concentrated in cities. nobel-de-economia-defende-indice-de-felicidade.shtml So Paulo, Brazil, 2009.
I N H A BI T, M O V E , CI RCU L AT E 79
big hit on these Squares is the tainable. One of these successes was
weekly Thematic Party, al- the CONFIDENCE AND CREDIT Cam-
ways tied to the culture and paign, since shortly after the Great
tradition of each location in Bubble of 2013, it became clear that
town, which promotes social the solution was not bank credit, with-
mixing and contact. out backing at that time, but rather,
Much has been done to people confidence. Quotes, images,
counterbalance the anti- and stories about people who believed
beggar architecture that in it, made it possible wherever it
Floor that absorbs the energy of movement / Generator that concentrates
prevailed at the beginning of was extensively used to counteract
and distributes / party-operated Telecenter / Party: generates energy. the 21st century, for example, the widespread fear and distrust dis-
RAI, 2008. by turning squares into emp-
ty and cemented spaces to Reinvention of Gazebos
ability to feel satisfied with what they prevent the homeless from using bench- Today, gazebos and squares are fulfilling their
have. Much has been done to straighten es, shade, and the likes. Once city plan- functions.
Those round constructions that look like buck-
out this misunderstanding by diminish- ners realized that by doing this they
ets in squares are no longer empty, but full of
ing isolation and increasing autonomy. were throwing out the baby with the
people instead, making speeches, expressing
Tens of Energy = Movement bath water, they started devoting them-
their ideas, and bands are playing. The square
Squares have greatly contributed to this selves to oldeities, such as the Rein- of the future is a very special place, where one
achievement. These are open places vention of Gazebos. can sit under a tree, on a bench and meet new
where people run, dance, and turn their At risk of extinction due to poor people. The gazebos are symbols of all that
surplus calories into energy that is ab- services rendered, Publicity started to squares and urban life can offer: a meeting
sorbed by the special floor3 and supplied perform more accordingly with its place of differences, space for creation, ex-
to the TransTeleMedia Public Centers. A name, Publi + City, and to focus on change, fun, a place where anything can be
boosting citizenship instead of con- displayed. Over the past few years, the Square
3 Floor - http://springwise.com/weekly/2010-01-27. sumerism, using all its enormous talent has become a place of synthesis. People are fi-
htm#pavegen. Nightclub with a floor that generates and quality in campaigns and actions nally occupying the streets.
energy: http://www.springwise.xom/eco_sustainability/
to make the city truly public and sus- Claudia Cezar, Matheus Gropp, Harold Hellmutt,
dance_powered_eco_nightclub Sergio Napchan. Brazil, 2009.
80 desirable new world
The Renaissance of values. In the 15th century, these values were courage/ boldness and conduct/
ethics. In 50 years, they might become: the courage to create, the spirit of solidar-
the 21st Century1 ity, democratic ethics, enhancement of knowledge and learning of pleasure (al-
though there is the pleasure of learning, the inversion of words indicates that
Jorge Wilheim, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
perhaps an effort may be forthcoming to increase the quality of personal life).
Architect, city planner, public manager, writer.
This Renaissance will be more easily observed in cities with a healthy environ-
My proposal is a new civilizatory and cultural cycle: the Renaissance of
ment, a social integration that reduce the current gap of opportunities, an ur-
the 21st Century. Its economic regimen would, in the future, be called the Mar-
ban landscape that meets our aesthetic point of view, improving the quality of
ket Socialism or Social Capitalism and it would be monitored by a new Social
life of the urban dweller. The public space will be enhanced as the main meeting
Contract signed by the State, the Market, the Producers (manual or intellectual
point for a solidary society. On the subject, it should be noted, for example, that
workers) and by a society that in an organized way would occupy its space
if the children on the streets are a problem, rather than take them off the streets
as development actor.
we should design streets for children... Books will be left all around, such as at
bus stops, for someone to pick them up and read them. And people who teach
To make this century become that of knowledge and creativity it is important to
something to someone will be appreciated and be called master citizens.
know how to transfer data and information supplied by computer programs to
the level of knowledge, and this capability is a challenge to the universities. The
The new Renaissance will not come unless we build it. There are many actors on
new Renaissance requires a cross-sectional and universal outlook, that is: the
the urban stage who prefer retardation, if not retrogression. This construction is
Renaissance person integrates different data and disciplines of knowledge and
a political project and requires a generous outlook, creativity, sense of human
these disciplines provide, in addition to his specialty, a base easily understood
and social solidarity.
and integrated with the knowledge of other specialties. Teaching institutions
will offer subjects that are common denominators, ensuring, for example, that
the biologist talks to the city planner, the engineer to the physician, because all
share common views in the Renaissance outlook.
The new Renaissance is based on a worldview, a cosmogony which uses the cur-
rent globalization, reinterpreted at a human and social level, to explain the oc-
curring phenomena. This outlook demands the establishment of a set of human
en neighborhood. The result was that For example, this strongly affects securi-
back then, people did not work to live, ty and violence. Investments in gated Profession: Official Caretaker and
but lived to work. The biggest losers walls, guards, and guns were replaced Territorial Caretakers
were children, because young parents by massive investment in education Representatives of specialized civil society orga-
were caught up in a vicious circle: work- and culture, mirroring the success of cit- nizations that participate and represent collec-
ing too much, because being unable to ies like Medellin, Colombia5 that once tives from certain territories in relevant themes.
take care of their children on their own, fought against drug trafficking. They conduct and define a plan of action for the
territory in partnership with the Official Caretak-
they had to pay for the outsourced The Interdependence logic resulted
er (todays mayor). They carry out the plan in
affection with babysitters persons in drastic change of public management
their jurisdiction by combining public funds with
who merely watched over children. To- priorities, which no longer focused pri- intangible resources (knowledge and the like)
day, they have been replaced by the marily on infrastructure, the hardware provided by private initiatives.
professional Poly Caregiver, a person part, and began to invest in people and Created during the Innovation in New
with a degree in Curiosity, Collabora- processes, the software part. This Economics Workshop, carried out by
tive Games, and Enthusiasm. Note that seems quite logical, because hardware Fundao Avina, October 2010.
this took place before the Program of does not work without software. Fewer
Male Affection, aimed at involving monumental engineering works, more
more men in care activities, one of the education and research, less focus on en-
answers found to enhance the culture terprises producing goods and more on
of sustainability. providing services after all, when other the shift from the era of HAVING to-
countries besides China6 adopted the wards the era of USING became evident.
Interdependence Creative Economy as a strategic priority, That was how a large portion of the
Since 2014, when the post-Rio+ 20 housing demand was supplied, pulling
premises were finally implemented, In- 5 40% of the official budget is invested in education
along issues such as security, transporta-
terdependence has been the essential, and culture http://elpais.com/diario/2011/09/10/ tion, and social equity. Aware that the
overruling word. catalunya/1315616842_850215.html housing deficit was lower than the
We are aware that, just as in Na- 6 In China, Creative Economy and Green Economy number of vacant dwellings, a process to
have been strategic national priorities since the 2011 2016
ture, everything in our lives is intercon- occupy the USW was carried out, since
Five Year Plan. http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/
nected, so solutions must be systemic. Worldbank/document/China-2030-complete.pdf vacant dwellings were also considered
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Optecnia: Nature and Culture skilled work, the craft whose outcome are products of technological organs,
without a separation created as an extension and expansion of our individual biological potentials,
which grants our release from the slow biological evolution, since the inven-
Jacques Dezelin, So Paulo,Brasil, 2012. tions allows rapid and more efficient solutions.
Filmmaker, independent researcher on economics.
Thus, an artificial physiology was created, in a curious paradox that extraor-
Optecnia is the name created, in the absence of any other, to identify the dinarily favors the variety of options of the people integrated and devel-
socio-bio-technological organism to which man belongs, and upon which he is oped in it. The single species not genetically programmed, in an increasing
dependent as from his birth. This because all of his biological functions depend part of its functional activities, the human being integrated in the Optecnia
on technological extensions, be it a spear to hunt for food, an animal or plant may choose his way of life in a diversity of which today, as clicking beings,
species domesticated for nourishment or clothing, or a bullet train to move we all bear witness.
around. The socio-technological environment is an exo-organic extension and
thanks to it the limits imposed by genetically programmed biology are ex- The study of biological reality, so far unnamed, which comprises Optecnia,
tended by the OPtions offered by TECHNOlogy; our 5km/hour walking pace is has been developed in recent years, mainly from the so-called ecological
extended to the 20km/hour of the domesticated horse, to the 100 of the car standpoint, mobilizing researchers of Nature and inventors of technologies.
and the 800 of the airplane; tele-phone and tele-vision expand our hearing We believe that scientific research should have as its core reference the allot-
and vision on a scale that is commonplace nowadays; energy, food, digestion ment of human time, and how in this allotment the payment system played
rely on networks ranging from oil wells and refiners, power stations and net- and plays a role of extraordinary importance and as such it has to be studied.
works of electricity, water and sewage. The cities, cultivated fields, roads are
technical extensions of the organic needs of each individual of the human In the authors experience, if the most elementary premises of the scientific
race, who without them cannot possibly exist - and vice versa. method were applied to financial science much of what is being taught
would have to be excluded, with severe damage to the financial myths that,
The name was created to describe and explain this biological phenomenon, like religions, played and play a huge role in creating our experiential reality.
and is composed of:
OPT from the verb to Opt, which shows that technology allows the exercise
of free will, delivering us from the bonds of genetic biology.
TECN (Techno = art, craft), which shows that human societies invented the
84 desirable new world
City overpasses transformed into leisure areas. Angela Lon, So Paulo, 2012.
Other Solid Urban Wastes were Still under the software rationale,
given new functions (software) for all through those years we saw the ex-
their structures (hardware), as it was pansion of the concept of technology
the case of many monstrous elevated and innovation to include and value
expressways that were converted into soft technologies and innovations:
gathering spaces, with open air mar- everything related to intelligence and
Transported Hotels and Cities. Bruna Lima, Oi Futuro,
Rio de Janeiro, 09/06/2009.
kets for food and local products sales function, such as socio-cultural technol-
or recreation areas for the population. ogies, management, innovation pro-
7 See work of the Basurama group proposing that
In cities distant from the sea, the great- cesses and design.
everything without use is SUW (overpasses, public and est success was: the overpasses were Focusing on interdependence, the
private spaces) http://basurama.org/destacado/ turned into beaches and the support- metabolic approach to development
publicacion-rus-residuos-urbanos-solidos-basura-y-
espacio-publico-en-latinoamerica-2008-
ing pillars into open air art galleries is expanded, considering that each hu-
%E2%80%93-2010 and playgrounds. man organization is an organism, with
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FLOWS
its various physiological systems. One of Interdependence also implies thinking tunities flow, which were concentrated
them is the concept of Optechnia8 that about flows: if everything is intercon- in large companies, especially foreign-
proposes the technological environment nected, each obstructed process inter- capital enterprises, resulting in the out-
as an extension, or complement to hu- feres with the next. Calculations made pour of funds abroad, rather than stim-
man functions: satellites complement in 2015, for example after the problems ulating local MSEs. The notion of flow
our senses; the Web complements our with the World Cup held in Brazil, in leads to the rethinking of the very no-
mind, the sewage system complements 2014 revealed steep losses caused by tion of dwelling. Why not live in
our digestion. the lack of urban flow impossibility to houses, or even cities, that can be
move about the city (transportation); moved to other places9 where they can
inadequate knowledge flow (inade-
8 An interesting concept developed by Jacques
Dezelin, in several publications, see box attached. quate training); lack of business oppor- 9 See the interesting work by the Dutch architect who
proposes floating houses. http://waterstudio.nl/home
86 desirable new world
OFFERED DESIRED
Time to go for a walk with
Company to get to know the
the dog on Sunday
city and to travel;
mornings;
Cars and houses painted
with ink that captures Playing with 6 to 8-year Company for watching
solar energy. Fabiana old children on holidays; movies;
Victor, Nilton de Lima Spooning and fondling in
Company to go dancing;
and Giovane Mendona, sleep;
So Paulo, 2009. Five oclock tea with
Foot massage on Saturdays;
elderly people;
transmission, assures that the energy
Vegetable garden,(having
generated will meet all the of energy/ and recycled17 in adjacent containers, so Tea with handicrafts, and keeping one) and
electricity requirements: light, electro- that a washing machine that used to movies, and chatting; offering produce to
electronics etc. consume about 4,500 liters of water per neighbors;
Most of the water comes from rain month now consumes only 15; the wa- Taking care of plants in Weekends without
harvesting, not only in buildings, in ter used in baths and sinks filtered and other peoples homes; technology;
tanks, but also in public spaces, inspired stored for uses that do not require Book-lending; Cultural chats;
by the work of architect Gaud for the 100% clean water, such as plant water- Part of personal Chat groups to exchange
Guell Park. 16 On top of buildings there ing, outdoor cleaning; or toilet flushing production of: bananas, information, gossip, and the
are open areas for gardens and events, (for those who still dont have access to tangerines, tomatoes, etc; like;
whose permeable floor covering col- permaculture dry toilets). Fertilizer for your
Bike-borrowing on Sundays.
lects and filters the water prior to distri- In every neighborhood there are vegetable garden.
bution. Note that even though this idea needs and desires networks that are ex- Beatriz Telles and Elaine Ribeiro de Oliveira, So Paulo, 2010.
seems so obvious, it took almost 150 changed. See the interesting list found
years to be put in practice. Other obvi- by one of our researchers. neighborhood is starting from scratch,
ous points long overdue in household All forms of coexistence are more rather than start by raising walls, as in
water management: washing machines fluid and permeable; therefore, if a the past, it should begin in interaction
that use the same water that is filtered with its surroundings. First, check what
17 Already exists, invented by Rubens de Oliveira Filho
the common dreams are, because they
16 http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/ http://www2.tvcultura.com.br/reportereco/materia.
Park_G%C3%BCell asp?materiaid=124 might generate bonds of trust that will
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later be strengthened through shared Ecovillages were widely adopted, Within a radius of 120 km, small clusters of
cultural and creative activities. When because we are aware that the coher- homes and conviviality coexist, where families
there is trust, we are ready for the next ent and competent solutions and possi- carry out agro-economic and sustainable activi-
step: creating entrepreneurial oppor- bilities of shared management and gov- ties. With community vegetable gardens, their
tunities that are identified through an ernance are possible on a smaller scale. food supply is self-sustainable. They have inte-
initial mapping of local knowledge The solution lies in the local aspects. grated culture, education and health centers.
and practices. The priority is to pro- These ecovillages are organized Power is generated right there by biomass tech-
nology that uses pulp or any other local vegeta-
mote interaction and exchange: the into networks, where there is exchange
tion. There is also a composting plant (solid
city has transformed the shell of its and interchange of services, products,
waste) that serves as fertilizer for the land. There
walls into skin: social fabric woven and skills. These networks also function
is a Logistics Center to wash, pack, and distrib-
from relationship networks. as a form of political representation, as ute agricultural production. And an Environmen-
they continuously gain in size and scale: tal Center that ensures preservation of the mi-
moving from the local to reach Macro cro-climate: orchards, agroforestry, etc... The
In the Countryside... Socio-Environmental Ecosystems (that nearest large city supplies the centers with gen-
were once called a nation, which to- eral services, so no one needs to travel more
Today, many people live in ecovillages. day no longer have borders and are de- than once a week.
Ecovillages of all possible and imagin- fined by socio-cultural characteristics), Maria Angla Baria, Sergio M. Barbosa and
able kinds, where communities orga- until they become global networks. Renato Ribeiro, So Paulo, 2009.
nize themselves by affinity. As such, Exchanges are made within these
there are old peoples ecovillages, rock- networks by using a variety of curren-
ers ecovillages, vegans ecovillages, de- cies with convertibility and parity
luxe ecovillages, and so on. But above among them. These currencies also cor-
all, there are ecovillages of a multi, respond to values on the social, cultural
trans, pluri character (multicultural, and environmental dimensions, for ex-
transnational, multifunctional), where ample: time, collaboration, diversity,
all possible combinations co-exist, since reputation.
the time of the mono activities and
living is over!
90 desirable new world
Integrated System for Natural Moving Around since they were painted with the help
Areas Protection of graffiti and urban artists.
A law was passed providing for the recognition, Today, there is a prevalence of bicycles It all began by drawing on experi-
mapping, and delimitation of ecosystems and and their variants, for instance, those ence from the early 21st century with
natural areas fragments. The latter will be con- that rely on a solar-powered battery bicycles belonging to the municipality,
nected to promote biological exchange of seeds, and have roofing made of recycled ma- which could be borrowed and returned
increased food availability, and greater protection terials, with UVA and UVB protection. at predetermined points, usually near
of wildlife and green areas, which will cover the Weary of waiting for official decisions, public transport stations. Later, this was
territory, bringing about greater diversity of use in bike activists from several cities, based extended to other types of Public Vehi-
spaces where, today, urban, agricultural, and cat-
on existing studies, organized night
tle breeding activities are massively prevalent.
meetings to paint the cycle lanes need-
Thiago Vinicius da Silva and Maringela Portela When one of these approaches another, it is
da Silva, So Paulo, 2009.
ed. They were quickly occupied by
thousands of people who had long possible to chat and exchange files while driving,
creating a network of relationships and environ-
waited to move around safely. Cycle
mentally correct cars.
lanes hacked by the population have
Jessica Nascimento, Criar Institute,
been more respected than expected, So Paulo, 2009.
Laws have set the limits for city growth and de- because they are beautiful and diverse,
centralized production and distribution of prod-
ucts and services in areas of 30km, and small
businesses in areas of 2 square kilometers. Each
family should have an area of 600m to live and
plant, where all will have their own garden and
all the homesteads will have 50% of the ground
covered with earth and vegetation typical of the
region. Thus, in addition to facilitating water
drainage, families will live in contact with nature
and have better quality of life.
Francine Sayuri Segawa, Criar workshop, 2009.
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cles, which are now for use and not have a system for transforming and
for possession. With a Single Trans- storing the kinetic energy released by
portation Ticket, any person can use a their movement. Most of them are
vehicle and drop it off at the many stops derived from mini and small cars that
available, typically one per block. These were common in the past.
vehicles are also coated with paint that Another major change in trans-
captures and stores solar energy and portation, brought about by the shift
from the logic of form (vehicles) to
that of function (transport) was the
creation of the Moving Walkway,
Building streets, building sidewalks, building
replacing many of the city streets, an
cars? How old-fashioned Public transporta-
tion has evolved greatly since the convergence old and sensible dream. We will be flying to school! We throw a CD on
of it all. Today there are moving lanes. Now its the ground and it becomes a flying saucer to fit
the street that moves and not the car...Slower our size. Carlos and Cristian, Barcelona 2009.
lanes for senior citizens and faster ones for End of the 19th Century: Imagining Life in the Year 2000
those who like stronger emotions.
Anonymous, Wikifutuross archive, 2010. Coming and Going:
A Sustainable Right
A new subway station was inaugurated and it
After anxious waiting, the people of the city of looks like it is going to be a model for others to
So Paulo will participate in a mega event to in- come. Entirely built with environmentally-friend-
augurate moving walkways over the Tiete and ly materials, it has an ultra-sensitive floor, which
Pinheiros rivers. At every kilometer, we shall see as a result of the friction of the users feet, gen-
a service and convivial station focusing on the erates the energy required to operate the station.
modern fishing station, with digital and holo- The train tracks are made from recycled weap-
graphic fishing rods. ons and the wagons seats of coconut fiber. And
Zenir Ramalho, Maria Lins and Graziela hail to the future! Roberta Alves de Souza and
Valentino, Brazil, 5/7/2010. Iuri Barbosa Ribeiro, So Paulo, 04/20/2010.
Pain and suffering. Racism. Deaths. All this is over. There are people that dont even know what a disease is, dont understand the meaning of wars. We are a new world. We are better people, but what
matters is that we are what we are. Crie Futuros Comics Contest. Nicols Rios, Uruguai, 2011.
Comics and Illustration Contest Crie Futuros, 2011 Geraldo Antonio Barba Rios, Mexico Pablo Carrera Piritto, Uruguay
It took place in partnership with Ocus Media and http://criefuturos.com/futuros_criados/ http://criefuturos.com/futuros_criados/
Montevideo Comics, from Uruguay and with the UDG Concurso_M%C3%A9xico Aprendiendo_a_volar_con_la_raza_humana
Virtual (University of Guadalajara), Mexico. The proposed
Bruno Garcia Olivo, Uruguay Cristina Hare, Brasil
theme was related to the Millennium Development Goals.
http://criefuturos.com/futuros_criados/Un_Cambio http://criefuturos.com/futuros_criados/
We selected a few comics for the book and the other
No_futuro_ser%C3%A1_Gol!
winners are in the right, with the corresponding link. Thank Denise da Costa, Brazil
you and congratulations! http://criefuturos.com/futuros_criados/Ave_da_paz
TAGS: anesthesia - body - consumption - cultivation - empathy -
family farms - food - fountains health - hospitals - joy - medical
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Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world,
indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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94 D E S irable new world
years due to the need to understand spond to the Earth element, tied to the tion), for example, education or even
and decide by intuition, since the veloci- Feeling that supplies us with information the construction of a sustainability cul-
ty of changes is ever increasing. They about what we are dealing with. ture. Really deep changes were
bring about association exercises to BB The Water System in the planet and achieved, when both started with moti-
stimulate a comprehensive outlook and the Circulatory System correspond to the vating, working on the desire to change
creativity. By analogy with our layered Water element, linked to emotion (in (this was the objective of the Criar Fu-
physical makeup and its association with motion, in movement) that helps us under- turos Movement with its desirable fu-
the four elements, we are able, for ex- stand the when, i.e., the process over time. tures), then broadening perception
ample, to correlate the latter with the BB Atmosphere and Respiratory System through the five senses, resulting, for
basic psychological functions, as formu- correspond to the AIR associated to instance, in greater ability to read
lated by Gustav Jung, which further Thought, which guides
point out the stages of a process. us, positions us, and is
BB First we have Fire: In the individuals linked to the Where in
Metabolic System, and Magma, inside our process.
the Earth, which corresponds to the psy- BB And finally, back to
chological function of Drive. That is to say: Fire, now the Light and
processes like, for instance, education, or Energy fire, which corre-
creating a sustainable world that must begin sponds to the Nervous
with desire, motivation (that is why our book System, the intuitive
is called Desirable New World2). Desire is our intelligence that shows
driving engine, without it we would get us the Hows.
nowhere, it shows us why and what for It is remarkable
we are doing what we are doing. that, until the begin-
BB Then come the Motor System in the ning of the 21st centu-
body and Geos, the earthly, which corre- ry, most processes
a lready began with
2 The title is also a counterpoint to Brave New
thought (emphasis on Relationship between the four elements, basic psychological functions, and stages
World, by Aldous Huxley, 1932, that portrays a tragic
content and informa- of action. Lala Deheinzelin, Vitae Research, 1992.
outlook of the future.
96 D E S irable new world
the world, then attention to emotion, FROM RECYCLING TO in the boom of enterprises and consortia
for example, through affection. working in this field, particularly be-
When something affects us, we EMPATHY: INSIDE OUT tween 2015 and 2025. Recycled materi-
start to act and eventually come to SUSTAINABILITY als were widely used in general construc-
thought, but thought grounded in de- tion, in an effort to find good use for the
sire, experience, and feeling which re- In the primordial times of sustainability tragic legacy of the 20th century, with its
duces the risk of allowing us to operate the focus was on the tangible, material, misguided policies that led to the de-
immersed in a world of disconnected and attention centered on controlling struction of railway networks, to lack of
and meaningless ideas and information. C02 emissions, saving energy, and man- investment in public transportation, and
aging wastes. In the first decades of the where everything revolved around the
21st century, curiously enough, these sub- centrality of the automobile. This mis-
jects were almost synonymous to sus- conception was, moreover, strongly
tainability. After Rio + 20, in 2012, the spurred by our c ollective dreams. Look-
need to overcome this
idea became evident, be-
Life in the year 2000 = cars! France, the 1930s. See at www.paleofuture.com.
cause many institutions
and governments limited
themselves to it and did
not change their process-
es and socio-cultural rela-
tions, while, nevertheless,
claiming to be sustain-
able. Undeniably, these
were important years for
environment care, and
years when everything
Contest awarding the Best ideas for use of had to do with recy-
auto parts. USA, 1932. cling, which is perceived
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grown by a micro enterprise of families their functions: you selected a number also select quotations related to the
that used to be outcasts in large cities. of things that interested you and when sensed feeling: Nothing is more pow-
Shortly after, the shelves stopped being somebody nearby was on the same fre- erful than an idea whose time has
so politically correct and boring, and quency your phone would vibrate. Arti- come Victor Hugo
started saying things with much more ficial, indeed, but necessary in those pe-
humor and in a more effective way. culiar decades, when people were afraid
In the past, strategies to force con- to relate to each other. Water
sumption were allowed, as was the case More recently we have seen Im
with supermarkets and shopping malls feeling... mobile apps. Should you We moved significantly ahead, when
that were designed to mislead; airports want to interact with others or with our perception of and relationship with
exits leading into duty-free shops or Feeling Panels (remember that the city our bodies changed and each one be-
shelves filled with trivia and goodies is interaction and conversation?), you came fully aware of their choices re-
creating chutes that led to the cash reg- program your mobile phone with data garding food, drink, movement. The
isters. In these situations of strong com- that, put together, will reflect your feel- first change was in relation to water
pulsion to buy, mobile phone apps reg- ings for that day. The Feeling Panels and in most places we already have
ulated consumption by playing the role map out the feelings of those who pass rainwater harvesting, cisterns, water re-
of a super ego for people who lacked you by in the street and turn them into use, and sanitation, and dry toilets6. The
self-control: when you reached for some visualizations5. Lets say that every feel- process was accelerated by the Young
candy, the app warned: Do you really ing is a colored dot and that the whole Water Managers Program, where train-
want candy or is it a hug? Talk to the reveals itself in shapes made up by the ees from the university guide elementa-
person next in line because he or she is united dots. This helps public officials ry and high school children to practice
tuned to the same frequency, and let it that are committed to feel the people and disseminate rational use of water.
go, it will only make you fat and give under their care, and promote a greater The program, implemented shortly af-
you pimples! At the same time, when sense of belonging by identifying those ter Rio + 20, resulted from a partnership
it became obvious that the impulses with similar feelings. The Feeling Panels
masked other deepest desires of con- 6 See the experience of the Center for Popular Culture
5 Example: human emotions mapped on the Web and and Development, which works to integrate the issues of
sumers, the same apps helped to pro-
transformed into data visualizations, http://www. water, energy, food, housing, work, education and culture
mote meetings, contacts, joy. One of wefeelfine.org/ through the application of sociocultural technologies.
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others that investigated the purifying We Want More than Do you want to get to know a culture? Drink
potential of the waves produced by the Just Food! 11 its culture-flavored juice. Breilin Montes and
human brain and by language. This was Luis Santana, Dominican Republic, 2009.
based on research developed by Dr. Ma- One of the reasons why we freed our-
saru Emoto, who, in the 20th century, selves from the severe distress situations
did some very interesting work by sub- in which humanity had been immersed
mitting water to emotions and found for millennia was our relationship with
that meditation, music, and other forms eating, now replaced by nourishing
of language were able to produce posi- yourself with proper food or having fun
tive changes in polluted water10. with gastronomy. Once accessibility to
food became a given, mainly industrial-
ized food, the world entered into a
crisis: we acted just like our primitive
ancestors, eating everything in sight, as
if there were no tomorrow. We acted Electronic Language
International Festival. Pedro,
10 http://www.masaru-emoto.net/ 11 Taken from the lyrics of the Brazilian group Tits. Rio de Janeiro, 2011.
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like c hildren, lured by the quantity, di- the number of obese people had ex- Then, because it was essential to re-
versity and attractiveness of products ceeded the number of the undernour- gaining physical and psychological fit-
that were indeed ingested, but which ished12 population, and it was sad to see ness and well-being. Because to be per-
were far from nourishing. Dissatisfac- how obesity, cardio-vascular problems, sonally sustainable was the key for
tion the driver of change was anes- diabetes, and other conditions associat- sustainability to gain momentum. Dras-
thetized, or stifled, in many ways, with ed with poor eating habits helped to re- tic regulatory measures had been ad-
eating/drinking being one of them. duce the world population, contrary to opted: junk food was shunned and,
Studies have shown the role played the earlier predictions that spoke of a similarly to old cigarette packs, the
by poor eating/drinking habits in the mushrooming population. damage caused was stressed through
state of numbness and inertia in which As soon as the concept of sustain- text and image; taxes were levied on
a large majority was plunged, which ability expanded, the eating vs. nour- edibles with calories but no nutrients,
worsened after the Great Bubble of ishing issue had to be seriously faced. and advertising encouraging consump-
2013, whose impact resulted in more First, because it caused losses in the tion of sweets was banned. Food ser-
obesity, and in the sale of more alcohol economy and other 4DxT dimensions: vices in businesses, schools, and univer-
and mood regulators with their conse- social, environmental, and cultural. sities were forced to offer only fresh
quent social and public health prob- and light food suitable for those who
12 http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/reporterbbc/
lems. In the first decade of this century, story/2006/08/060815_obesosxesfomeadosebc.shtml sit for hours.
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In the early twenties, pricing of all even economic (e.g., productivity loss
products already included the 4DxT because of poor health) costs were
cost. For example, beverages were for- incorporated.
merly made from dyes, sugar, and wa- Shifting from eating to nourishing
ter, and sold at a lower price per liter was more important than expected,
than natural water! This distortion was since it developed skills fundamental for
corrected when environmental (e.g., the implementation of sustainability as
sugar monoculture results), social (e.g., a system: Listening and learning about
medical and dental care), cultural (e.g., ones nature and needs, developing dis-
loss of cultural diversity and habits) and cipline and self-regulation by making
wise choices; being aware of future con- Andre, FILEl,
Rio de Janeiro, 2011.
sequences of present actions.
There was a dramatic increase of,
Community Agriculture Fair
more or less radical, vegetarians, and all
The fair consists of a space for distributing or-
ganic foods produced and harvested by orga-
sorts of vegan diets that took into ac-
nized residents within their neighborhood. count the physical and cultural peculiar-
This possibility of abundance and beauty is due ities of individuals and communities.
to the bill passed by the city that contemplates Gastronomy has grown to be a re-
the donation of land for food production, pro- fined way to enjoy and learn about
vided there is an organized management group food, especially since quantity has
in place.
The fair takes place once a week in the neigh-
borhoods, and in addition to supplying fresh
and healthy food, it fosters integration and ex- BigVegan Network.
change of skills that feed community life. Reunites the BigVegan supermarkets, commonly known as Super Vegano, and the Vegano Soni Restaurants
that feature solar heating, vegan bio-green garden, cistern, rain water collection, orchard, library, bicycle yard,
Daniela di Grazia, Lucilaine Oliveira
fantastic cuisine, live music on moonlit nights.
Campos and Ins Soares Campos,
Campinas, Brazil, 2010. Lolita Sala and Rodrigo, Brazil, 2010.
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been replaced by originality, diversity, have been gradually gaining scale and Multi, Trans,
and quality. Eco-Chefs proliferated to replacing monocultures and the agricul-
Poly Health
become a rage and after them came the tural industries of the past, proving that
development of hundreds of food-relat- it is possible to produce, distribute, and This is the century of care also char-
ed businesses niches. supply all demands using other models. acterized by being multi and trans
All this, of course, led to new ways and with Health it could not be any
of producing and marketing: fair trade, different. In recent decades we man-
family farming, both sustainable and aged to retrieve quite a bit of the time,
organic. Following the overall change knowledge, and lives lost by denial a nd/
of pattern (mass production/centralized or opposition between different types
to niche /decentralized production), of medicine. Now, there is close coop-
small farmers organized in networks eration between them, each contribut-
ing an aspect. Allopathy, with its
successful repairing and sewing; acu-
puncture, with the ancient knowledge
Solidarity Productive Clusters
Three organic farmers: an Asian, an African, and
about the relationship among organs;
a Brazilian rural dweller met yesterday, holo- herbal medicines, for its accessibility
graphically, to chat about trading original seeds and affordability, etc. They are widely
produced in their communities, to strengthen used today, ever since the blending of
their local gene bank collections to guarantee millennia of traditional knowledge
the preservation of biodiversity. Authors: Claudio with the scope of modern science. Med-
and Sergio M. Prospero Barbosa ical decisions are taken by a multidisci-
For a future where people do not need to sacri- plinary group of caregivers / physicians,
fice lives to feed themselves, let us recognize the who can no longer restrict themselves
animals as siblings and educate children for to a single specialty.
non-violence, instead of fighting evil with evil.
One of the major changes ob-
Claudio Prspero and Sergio M. Barbosa,
Seed Head: Creating a future, living in the present. served was in the pharmaceutical in-
So Paulo, Brazil, 2009. Crie Futuros Comics Contest. Sylvio Ayla, Brasil, 2011. dustry. The peak of its unregulated
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and medicine a lot more devoted to and caregivers/physicians relied on data HEALTH IN 2042, FROM
learning about and promoting health obtained mainly at the time of interac- THE OUTLOOK OF
instead of dealing with disease. tion with the patient, i.e. a picture of
In the post-Great Bubble burst, in that moment. Then, access to data "NONSENSOLOGY"
which people, institutions, and enter- about a variety of human functions,
Wellington Nogueira, creator of the Doutores da Alegria1 and
prises agreed that sustainability would combined with everyday life, observed
business consultant. So Paulo, Brazil. 2012.
be the guiding principle of all activities, through layer overlapping systems
it became evident that it was no longer (such as those used in graphic design
Nowadays, we nonsensologuers1 are confused:
possible to waste resources, time, and software) allowed diagnoses that were
WHERE DOES THE HOSPITAL BEGIN? AND WHERE
enthusiasm with diseases that could be more like a moving picture, making
DOES IT END? This confusion takes place because we
avoided. More than ever, life was too it possible to follow progress over time. see a number of diseases being cultivated in our rela-
good to be lost, and there was a great To perceive illness and health as histori- tions with life. Therefore, what reaches the hospital
increase in the number of Health Care cal processes changed significant con- had started much earlier, e.g. in the hustle of big
groups comprised by volunteers and cepts, for example, concepts related to cities, in many homes and in the workplace (which is
professionals using socio-cultural tech- aging and to what was natural. For a where the adult is interned, as was so well diag-
nologies13 . Thus, networking and social- person in the Middle Ages, it was nat- nosed by the renowned nonsensologue our distin-
izing networks were established, pre- ural to die at 30, to lose teeth, and guished colleague, Dr. Ferrara). Just one visit to the
venting insecurity, poor nutrition, lack have skin disorders a scenario that emergency rooms of public and private hospitals is
of hygiene, information, peer-pressure changed with better hygiene. Today, enough to give an X-ray of the social problems we
and bad company from becoming we realize that aging and illness are face in the day to day and that are unloaded there.
causes of disease. not synonymous and that disease is
It is was interesting to see that, be- more a consequence of poor living than At the same time, there was never so much talk
tween the 20th and 21st centuries, medi- of long living. about sustainability as now. Where does this so-
cine experienced an evolution similar to called sustainability begin and end? Definitely, it be-
the leap from 19th century photography gins with the quality of our relations with life. Each
to the 20th century cinema. Before, tests
1 Professional clowns cast members of the Doctors of
13 An example is the Pastoral da Criana, https://www. Joy, who are trained to perform with excellence in
pastoraldacrianca.org.br/ hospitals, in portuguese: besteirologistas.
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of us is the starting point. I look, I listen, I know myself, I accept myself and so Im We also saw a devastating impact on the relations of people with work! Yes,
able to look, listen, understand and welcome the other. If the Earth is threatened because at this stage of the game, no one is working to survive or to get rich, but
today, it is because we do to it what we do to ourselves we treat it badly! We pursuing his aim in life by means of work, which rescues crafts considered ex-
reproduce in the outside world what we cultivate within ourselves! So lets go tinct such as itinerant artists who make going into the street an experience of
back to what master Gandhi said: Be the change you want to see in the world beauty and gracefulness. Musicians, poets, sculptors, painters, singers, clowns,
and read once more the beginning of the Earth Charter, where it is clearly stated actors, all of these artists are part of everyday life, stimulating conversations, de-
that we are interdependent beings. Okay, from these interconnected points we bates, discussions and thoughts. Since we choose to work to make the world
can begin to think about desirable futures in the area of healthcare. better, working is a pleasure and an honor, and we are all actors in that same
great spectacle we create every day, by means of our conviviality.
When we develop our awareness, we enjoy healthy living, eating well what we
plant in our collective gardens, which, in turn, also serve as classrooms for chil- In such a world, hospitals have become centers of cultivating health, retrieving
dren and young people.Yes, food awareness is now a school subject, along with from ancient Greece the knowledge of Aesculapius, who used the arts to heal
healthy and tasty cuisine in an activity that also involves the families! Without people. Physicians and health professionals began to receive artistic training so
wasted food, all live well fed. Because of this trend, the agrotoxic industry rein- that caring could become an art. Listening and Looking are first order disciplines!
vented itself and became a disseminator of organic planting techniques, since This brought about a general reformulation of the concept of hospitals and hos-
the huge plantations lost their centrality after people took for themselves the pitalization. After all, aware of their purpose in life, physicians nurses and other
responsibility for growing food. health professionals understand that the encounter with each patient is an op-
portunity to, together, become better human beings. Technology makes the treat-
This entire revolution in eating habits also made room for collective entertain- ments rapid and far less invasive, leaving time to build healthy relations in har-
ment: a lot of people have fun together and this makes life much better. Fami- mony with the movement of life.
lies that have fun together generate more lasting friendships and care. In a
neighborhood, everybody knows one another and takes care of each other, In 2042, we have learned to celebrate every day the meeting with our fellow-
therefore, urban violence dropped incredibly. People tear down their high walls man, because we know that no two human beings are alike and that we are the
and electric fences because they are no longer needed. A city that takes pos- manifestation of a miracle that so far science has not fully unveiled. Celebration
session of its streets and public spaces for leisure, art and culture reveals itself. became a lifestyle. We motivate ourselves for something that is very strong: the
This generates a healthier, happier population, aware that everyone is building will to do better for the other. This is health in practice.
collective health, day to day. In schools, the subjects are all about how we can
be better and more harmonious We are aware of the legacy that we leave at
every breath we take. Moreover, use of breathing techniques is one of the first
things one learns in school!
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Until the middle of high school most of us, influenced by new friends or be-
cause of personal inquietude, exercise their curiosity in areas that hitherto had
1 www.culturafi.com.ar
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not been of interest. I started to participate in the school band as a drummer, common elements, the majority became a planetary objective and
since I had developed a certain rhythmic quality ... Thats when I fell in love with were fought against until their disappearance (abnormal pollution, UV
a musician. Perhaps due to the relation between Arithmetic and Harmony... radiation, etc.).
Subjects such as Ethics and Creativity are taught in all disciplines. The more It was most interesting to show that, with some nine billion people registered in
heterogeneous and colorful classes are Humanities, in which all converge: the absolutely all of them, talents and potential weaknesses are found at birth.
New Planetary Agreement (the document that underlies the entire program) it When their similarities are checked in basic conditions, the need to equalize
places the Human Being as primary responsible for all care. development opportunities throughout the world is clear. And the fantasy (semi
assumed) of the existence of super men faded, imparting new self-esteem in
Other classes were a bit anarchic, Social Sciences and Habitat, which were the population.
constantly reformulated, and Intergenerational Relations because even
then it was considered an affair of state. But the revolution has only just begun:
Cultures is given each month by people who are a reference in their commu- Nobody can foresee what will happen when the levels of dissatisfaction drasti-
nities, who report their identity traits by means of oral tradition storytelling. The cally drop. Or when the word useless will be finally deleted from the vocabu-
subject is a celebration, where we learn to dance their rhythms and of course, lary when we refer to a fellowman.
the secrets of their cuisine.
There was a decrease in the levels of disease and violence, so budgets for
The Census Health and Security have already decreased.
After 20 years of the program were completed the First Global Census of the
New Era was organized. New Vital Documents of the entire population were We no longer hear the nostalgic ... in my time, young people were...: the old-
issued with the following results: er feel that this is also their time and are proud of leading at the moment when
the planet changed Power for Care.
The list of Talents increased in relation to the first measurement, confirm-
ing the hypothesis that to know the skills of origin improves the ability, But one thing has not changed at all: in consultations with the psychoanalyst,
even in not particularly gifted areas, and prevents many frustrations. people still talk about their mothers!
A Neat World / They would launch the Dial-a-Psychoanalyst. / A software that would allow to download musicians over the Internet. / Street names would be more amusing.
Ado Itusgarrai, 2009.
TAGS: learning-cycles - competences - knowledge -
convergence - creativity - diversity - education -
emotion - school - expression - stages of life - web
physiology - intuition - language - thinking - drive
- feeling - synthesis - technology qualitative
6 LEARN, CREATE,
COMMUNICATE
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those
visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
Carl Sagan
112 desirable new world
Where are we? The change began with the very used to be this idea that for the little
notion of the passing of time and the ones (... suffering from incomplete-
Another Reading of words that define it like the term in- ness) everything could be silly, trivial,
the Passing of Time fancy (in-phonos, without voice) and of poor quality. Quality and diver-
phased out, as well as Adolescence sity are guaranteed, as stated in the
Until recently, a visitor who came from (adolescere, double meaning in Latin: African proverb It takes a whole vil-
the distant past would find it difficult to to grow and to get sick). We know that lage to educate a child and indeed,
recognize our buildings and professions. there are three adolescences, one for they are cared for by all.
But the school would be recognized im- each passage in life, which today are After the First Transition (quite in-
mediately. For far too long they have called First, Second, and Third Transi- terestingly, it can last from 13 to 31)
remained the place where we were con- tion (the fourth is the definitive one...). comes the Frutificare stage, the raising
fined and isolated as if being a child The stage once known as Child- children and consolidating work
were a disease, a disease of incomplete- hood today is Potentia, that of all phase. It is no longer so difficult, be-
ness, which is cured when we become potentials. It is when all kinds of in- cause, fortunately, the idea that au-
adults. What is more, a recurrent evil depth, qualified, consistent informa- tonomy is synonymous to isolation was
that affected us when we started to be tion is received after all, this is where abandoned and, today, domestic and
affected by another thing that was also it all begins. The opposite of what was everyday life are shared. Inspired by
viewed as a disease: aging. believed for some time, since there mutual-aid cultures, mainly those from
the East, family and friends collabo-
rate with start-off endeavors and
Neither table, nor chair households (in their multiple formats)
In this new way of learning, human beings will be taught to be and not to do. undertaken by young fruitifiers.
Instead of being a Teacher, he will play the role of Connector to transmit knowledge through affinities. The Second Transition, around the
Children take to the streets and go everywhere to learn by practice about the real issues. The parents are
fifties, has proven to play a key role in
with them and together they learn and participate in this process, expanding their horizons.
the shift toward sustainability. Since
The rooms are empty, free of tables and chairs, and children and young people can decide how they want the
increased life expectancy is no longer
walls, the room, patio, etc. to be, creating a personalized space with their digital imprints.
Alessandra Mara Vidotti, Andr Stangl, Dudo Melo. So Paulo, 2008. the time to stop, but to start another
life, since children are educated and
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cation phases with concentration phas- BB Expansion in the early 20s, when the
es once again, the same concentrate/ web was no longer a sea of indiscriminate
mono vs. decentralized/pluri pattern data where one navigated without a map.
weve seen so many times. All the new interfaces were already using
Listed below are some of these data visualization systems and, when we
pulsations. started to deal with qualitative data, it was
(I apologize to the experts for this possible to gain depth. With it we create
daring and improbable exercise; indeed, something like a relief, or topography of
I wish to apologize to all the experts for the web. Where there is relief and depth,
all the daring and improbable exercises one can discern the relevance that had
that make up this book...). been lost in the early 10s. Contraction
BB expansion, when it started, scattered when only a few, knowledgeable about the
among universities and technical centers; morphology of the Web, are capable of
contraction with the first mega sites and studying its physiology.
providers; Conversely, the recent history is
BB expansion with Web 2.0 and its diversity better known: in-depth of the data
of wikis and blogs and intense collaborative reading, with relief provided by over-
knowledge production; contraction with lapping layers, starting with georefer-
the social networks that used up all the cog- encing real-time layers. This was crucial
nitive surplus of people in ephemeral posts; to enabling the 4DxT Economics and
Crie Futuros Comics Competition. Javier Milles Sierra,
BB expansion in the late 10s, when 3.0 Management referred to in earlier
Uruguay, 2011
blogs and wikis return, georeferenced chapters, in addition to multidimension-
this time around. People stop posting al education, communication, and cre-
information (since it was lost...) in social net- ativity that are the subject of this
works that now have only a relational func- chapter.
tion; concentration when few digital plat-
forms allow qualitative rather than
quantitative contact with the web.
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ways fail to express the new...) were re- Tools for Each Layer
Now I am a teacher quired. The multiplicity of forms and the
This morning, a Chip that can automatically progressive acquisition of multidimen- of the Educreative
teach how to fly helicopters, drive motorcycles,
sionality may be noticed in the evolution Process
cars, and even do math was invented.
of acronyms.
- And what about Schools?
From Information Technology (IT) How to work the Educreative under
- And since when do Chips teach human
relationships? to ITCs (+ communication); then to Sci- the current perspective of emphasis on
The schools were replaced by relationship city ence, Technology, and Society (STS) to the organic and the biomimetic? Here
squares that allow people to talk about their which were added the Arts (ASTS) and we can avail ourselves of the same
own lives, what they want for their future, what today we finally have ASESTE: Art, Sci- scheme that introduced the previous
they think of themselves, what they think of ence, Economy, Society, Technology, chapter and follow the order that orga-
everything. and Environment. Phew! It is notewor- nizes our nature and the surrounding
- And so, did things improve?! thy that these words encompass the Nature.
Only the future will tell. four dimensions. The name is so long
Leonardo Almenara, Thiago de Oliveira, Vitria, that it already became a verb and ad- Layer One :
2010.
jective: This project does not contem- Drive Transformation
plate the D/Environmental; we must Todays science shows that what charac-
asestetize it(make it four-dimension- terizes the Human Being is his symbolic
al). Or Wow, this project is great, very representation ability and the learning,
asesteing (meaning, covering all communication, and creation capabili-
Convergence: art + science 4DxT dimensions). ties that stem from it. The essence of our
+ economics + society Today, then, the processes of learn- nature is to create, and therein lies the
+ technology + environment ing, research, creativity, and communi- probable reason why all traditions refer
We are talking here about learning, cre- cation are integrated. They are ASESTE. to human beings as created in the im-
ating, and communicating in all spheres Since this is still a not widely known lexi- age and likeness of the divinity. The
of life, all ages, venues, and times. When con, we will at times use most current movement toward a sustainable life re-
these activities became ongoing, daily, terms such as Educreative, owing to its vealed that our health as individuals and
and integrated, new lexicons (words al- elegant simplicity. as a society is related to the practice of
118 desirable new world
perception, so valuable in the civilizato- After delete came defear. The pro-
ry passage we are experiencing. Before, cess of unraveling the fear that perme- Inauguration of the Cart of the
we learned through conditioning and ated all kinds of communication, edu- Senses School
changed when forced by suffering. To- cation, creation. The evident positive Today will be the inauguration of the Cart of
the Senses School, whose mission is to use the
day, we have come to learn and change results bear witness to the success
five senses to provide enjoyable education.
by choice and co-authorship. By expand- achieved. Which makes absolute sense.
The school and its faculty (students, teachers,
ing our repertoire of perceptions we ex- In ASESTE activities, surrender, supporters, family and community) will gather
panded our repertoire of meanings. trust, openness, and boldness at the for a great community game that will celebrate
If life is movement, creation, and time of the experience are dealt with. the senses and memory.
expansion; its opposite is fear that pro- The experience is a moment of synthe- Practices such as these will be held in the day-
motes paralysis, repetition, contraction. sis, of wholeness. Analysis only takes to-day of the school, by stimulating the senses,
We evolve when we cease to fear, be- places in the next steps, of reflection, promoting integration between human beings
cause fear is the greatest enemy of cre- to benefit from what was experienced. and nature, as follows:
ation, transformations, cooperation, Sight: stimulate games and exercises in ob-
collective. The offspring of fear - dis- Layer three : Emotion servation and contemplation of colors, shapes,
nature, and human beings;
trust, blame, judgment, envy, fear of Change of State
Hearing: will be exercised by listening to each
ridicule, of losing, of being wrong - pre- In a previous chapter we mentioned To
other and by encouraging the perception of the
vented transformation processes, since be, or being: that is the question, stat-
sounds of nature;
they blocked experience, knowledge ing that if Shakespeare had written in Smell: use of scents and aromas in the environ-
and, hence, understanding. Portuguese, probably this would be the ment and nature to awaken, encourage; and
The task of moving from fear to enunciation of his famous phrase. One share the recollection;
trust is arduous, after all, the culture of the first steps towards the desirable Taste: stimulating tastings and exchanging
that fosters fear and separateness has world was the realization of the enor- stories and memories, with time to savor;
been with us for millennia. Just as com- mous difference between to be and Touch: daily hug sessions, exploring touch
monplace as passing the virus was being. A characteristic of ours (fat, de- between people in daily life.
Passing the antifear; in any action or pression, shyness) is a feature of is or of Joo Fabio Scabora, Hayde Agostini, and Ma-
activity, ask yourself: Does this being? War is inevitable or being ria Ceclia de Campos, Brazil 2010
strengthen confidence or spread fear? inevitable?
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Fantasy and imagination hint at are make diagnoses, limiting possibil- is cyclic and changing. When we realize
how things could be propose process- ities. We adopt sustainable mentality that things are being and not only are,
es, disclose potentials. Knowledge and and habits, when we realize that every- we notice that changes of state are
experience show how things actually thing in nature (and therefore in us...) possible and, therefore, we could move
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from where we were to a state of with emotions. Observing Humors and Layer four : Thinking
sustainability. Flows is something practiced from early Convergence and Analogies
Move from paralysis to action, on, ever since the observation of water Note that only now we have reached
from idea to practice, from potential to and its cycles. Emotions or humors are the layer corresponding to thinking. Be-
performance, from individual to collec- revealed through our inner waters, dry fore, the educational process started
tive. Our culture was unsustainable, be- with fear; dampened by excitement; from here: contents, information, think-
cause it did not realize that changes of overflowing with sadness. If we mirror ing. Today, they are much more effec-
state are possible, besides being neces- ourselves in the changing states of wa- tive, because we desire knowledge,
sary. Failure to differentiate to be ter in Nature it is easy to see that some- which is worked by our feelings, mobi-
from being was due to the separa- times we are vaporous and airy, in oth- lizes our emotions and, when it reaches
tion between the static What, and con- ers we flow and surrender, or in other thinking, it already has a solid basis...
nected to the to be the, dynamic How still, we are steady and frozen. Howev- Our earlier history was constructed
connected to being. Not by chance did er, often we do exactly the opposite: we relying on choices between this OR that:
we devote ourselves more to theory are vaporous and ambiguous when we patriarchy OR matriarchy; science OR re-
and results (What) than to practice and should be as firm as ice, or frozen when ligion; reason OR emotion; local Or glob-
procedure (How). But to know (theory) we should let go. Simple. But it was ex- al; economy OR humanism. Comprehen-
things is not the same as to understand tremely effective not to be a cloud in sive theories and practices promoted the
them (theory + practice). We got out of Council meetings, or frozen in the effective transformations we experi-
the impasse by developing technolo- wedding anniversary. enced and that allowed differences to
gies in their original sense - techn as Another technique used was the be a solution, not a problem.
art and skill, technology. The expanded aforementioned Activation of Empathy, From Or to AND was the other Soft
concept included hard and soft an humongous effort that lasted nearly Technology widely adopted, whose
technologies, tangible and intangible, two decades, but was successful. Today, function was essentially linked to lan-
theory and practice, to know and to no learning process or transformation is guage: every time an OR appeared in
experience. possible without an affective and emo- the conversation, we would ask: Is it re-
We then developed Soft Technolo- tional foundation. We know that emo- ally OR, or could it be AND? For exam-
gies To Facilitate Changes of State and tion sets us in motion, mobilizes us. In - ple, I dont know if I will play the harp
most of them stemmed from contact motion, moving. or dedicate myself to massage, adding
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many examples of similarities and syn- plicated, which gives us more confi- describe it. To give up complicated lan-
thesis. For instance, compare the spec- dence to decide and act. This empow- guage as a way of showing off knowl-
trum of electromagnetic waves to the erment, directly proportional to edge has turned many a Pluriversity
development of a fetus, where there is uncomplication, was so obvious that it thesis into a best seller.
a recapitulation of the evolution of spe- became a campaign: Uncomplicate to Just as the synthesis exercises, ob-
cies8. This translation of one language be more complex. It was found that tained by analogue processes, also seek
to another can be done at many levels the more complex an issue, the simpler the How corresponding to each What,
and allowed the choice of the most ap- should be the way to approach and so the gap between theory and practice
propriate language to work on a partic-
ular aspect. Chromotherapy, aromather-
apy, music therapy began to be
commonly used not only in healing
places, but also in decoration and even
in conflict resolution.
The function of these synthesis ex-
ercises was to simplify processes, de-
velop abstract thinking, and prepare
Translator of the Universe Apprentic-
es, people capable of drawing paral-
lels9, comparisons, convergences, and
similarities. Through this practice,
reading the world becomes less com-
The school will have a swimming pool, covered in Winter discovery and open in Summer. It will be
surrounded by chimneys with tubes of hot air outlets to dry us. Adri and Mark, Barcelona, 2009.
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EDUCATION AND FUTURE New cognitive realities Studies disclose that constant exposure to digital
stimuli, such as games, mobile equipment and overlapping images may affect
Rosa Alegria, So Paulo, 2011
the brain and the way it perceives things and processes information.
Vice-Chairman of the NEF - the Future Studies Center at PUC-SP
Director of the Brazilian Node of the Millennium Project
Learning to unlearn The time of the specialist honored by the industrial era
is coming to an end. The knowledge era requires latitudinal, multifunctional,
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and multicompetent profiles.
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler The school that comes from within There is no school that deals with in-
teriority. It is as if we were living only one side of reality and throwing away
It is in the schools that new generations will learn to create the future the entire creative potential. After all, we are complete. The only species able
they desire. After all, we have been learning only about the past. How to face the outside world (horizon of changes) and the inner world (mental
about also learning the future? horizon of imagination).
Looking back and going over the last twenty-five years in an imaginative flash- Study of the Millennium Project Possible Futures for Education and
back, it is possible to have a fair idea of how immense are the changes we are Learning 2030
living today and that will from now on advance at an even faster pace. We had
no AIDS, no genetically manipulated food, no mobile phones, and no internet. The South Korean Ministry for Education and Human Resource Development
The sheep Dolly, the attack on the Twin Towers and the invasion of Wikileaks has asked researchers from the Millennium Project, an international network
would have seemed the result of a delusional imagination. If current trends of futurists researchers to which I belong, for an evaluation of future possibili-
point to acceleration, this century will see technological changes on a scale 80 ties in the field of education and learning for the year 2030. What can we do
times greater than in the 20th century. Facing this new world, what can schools today to take advantage of these new possibilities? Since new ideas can lead
and learning centers do to avoid that the future shock, foreseen by Alvin Tofler to unexpected routes, it is prudent to ask: what might be their negative and
in the 80s, be so intense? How can we take advantage of these changes? positive outcomes? These are some of the possibilities aimed at high-tech
world for the education in 2030:
Studying for the Future - A definitive feature of a society is its attitude in re-
lation to time. Do our schools prepare people for whats coming? Certainly not! Just-in-time knowledge and learning
The changes we are constantly undergoing can only be refined into solutions if
we are able to look to the future. Individualized education
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Continued assessment of individual learning processes to prevent Computers with extra-human intelligence
emotional instability and mental disorders
Artificial microbes to enhance intelligence
Individualized nutrition to improve cognitive development
The teaching of morals and implementation of new metrics (emotional in-
Genetically enhanced intelligence telligence and spiritual intelligence)
Use of global on-line simulations as tools for social research The global brain: the development of collective knowledge on the way to
forming a global brain and new stages of human consciousness
Use of public communications to support the pursuit of knowledge
Inter-religious and inter-cultural Studies
Artificial Intelligence Portable Devices
Increased use of games for learning, including online games
Complete mapping of human synapses to map the learning processes
Modular units of knowledge: management tools allowing each student to
Mechanisms to keep adult brains healthier for longer periods download what he needs
Chemistry for brain enhancement They probably will not be implemented by 2030 due to cost issues, political in-
terests and especially to the fear of institutions of losing their installed power,
Web 17.0 integration of data, analysis, discussions, forums, into an orga- when faced by new educational capabilities. All these possible futures signal
nized and semantic structure. The Semantic Web that uses virtual reality strategic pathways leading to a new system of teaching and learning. These are
and contains an intelligent sub-system assumptions of a sustainable economy, viable only with the appearance of new
leaders that will arise from a new educational system.
Integrated lifelong learning system
To make of the world we have in content and aesthetics of mass media, but also broaden horizons, break
the world we want down prejudices, narrow the differences. This is because, even though we live in
a mediatic era, of knowledge and of information, in which we are flooded by
Maria Arlete Gonalves, 2008 news of what happens in the world in real time, the images and reports we re-
Journalist, Culture Director of Oi Futuro. ceive are still in the hands of small groups comprised of large corporations. The
wide world of the poor, the underprivileged, the deprived is only shown from
Communication technologies are the so called suppressors of time and the perspective of those who dominate the media.
space foreseen by the ancient Vedas, bringing people together and reducing
geographical distances. With them it is possible to work towards approxi- Corporate social responsibility will progressively increase in the future. Busi-
mating those different, bridging social gaps. To work with and for youth, the ness ethics, transparency, commitment to the environment and to sustain-
heirs of this world that we also inherited and are pledged to pass on as one able development, the social private investment, social actions that make
that is more positive, constructive, balanced, fair and healthy. A world that their knowledge and technologies available to the community from which
gives clear signs of what needs to be rethought, reinvented, recycled, shared. they extract wealth will be fundamental conditions for the survival of enter-
A world that increasingly seeks humanity. To carry out this mission requires prises, when consumers will be increasingly aware and less avid. The contri-
the imagination that creates and the technology that leverages, which bution of citizens will be a brand attribute and major differential at pur-
makes it, happen. chase. Power, success, glamour and status will no longer be arguments for
sale and will be replaced by recycle, reuse, exchange, respect and responsi-
A desirable future is the one we create every day, thinking of our great-great- bility. Enterprises will consistently encourage volunteerism among their em-
grandchildren. A future where there will be more equal opportunity for those ployees. I see the creation of a Leave for Social Cause, in which enterpris-
who are part of the social fringes. The so-called common urban youth, now es make available time and remuneration for employees to carry out projects
considered a victim or perpetrator of society, will have increased access to tech- that contribute to human development.
nologies and contemporary languages. As such, instead of being portrayed, it
will be able to portray in a competent way their outlook of the world, the reality For a desirable future, I see a Museum of Humanity Values, which will show
of the communities where they live, and thereby change the surrounding envi- future generations examples of the wealth of human thought and behavior so
ronment. In the world we desire, the youth will have voice and chance: it will be that these are not lost in time. Values such as generosity, honesty, ethics, love,
the protagonist. After all, the future belongs to them. solidarity, word, trust and everything that may ensure humanity to the man of
the future. Creating a museum to preserve, store and disseminate the values of
We believe that the democratization of access to culture, the fostering of citi- humanity, since many are in a process of rapid extinction, such as Honor, Faith,
zenship and the new technologies will bring about significant changes, not only Principles, Word (in the sense of commitment), Heroism, etc
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In this wonderful exercise that is the Creation of the Future, some other ideas
occur to me for tomorrows bank of ideas. For example: The PEV (Place for Ex-
perimenting the Void) to detoxicate people from the excess of information they
are submitted to daily. Their slogan: Delete to delight.
Along the same line of thought, I suggest the PCS Place of Consumerism
Slowdown. In the near future, where there will be greater awareness of be-
ing and not having, there will be units of re-education for sustainable living,
which will teach people to understand and free themselves from uncontrollable
and insatiable desire to buy, and to learn new ways to live better with less.
The sky is the limit when it comes to imagine a better world. Is all of
this just a fantasy, a dream? How about seeing them come true in the
future? We just have to start!
67 aprender, Criar,
BE, RELATE, CONNECT
comunicar
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe
that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility
for making it so.
Frase
Noam Chomsky
Autor
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Just to give you a small sample, we with physical or racial form ceased to
Curiosities of the listed some interesting inventions and exist long ago; now the type of wrap-
Forties processes. For instance, in matters of ping humans come in is unimportant.
fashion, much has changed. The recent We believe that there was a contribu-
The dear reader who has followed us experiments with Teletransport Color tion by the Memorials of Current
this far must be curious about details Change gave us new options in post- Barbarities and the Simulators of the
on communication, design, fashion, disintegration atomic rearrangement. Future. We could watch puzzled physi-
and the arts in our time. This is such an Now it is possible to choose, for exam- cians examining little shrunken old
encompassing subject that it will be ple, skin color (violet has become a suc- ladies, with fake bouncing breasts and
addressed in the next volume, where cess) or hair type (straightening is over!). buttocks popping out of their wrinkled
we will discuss how culture, communi- Soon we will be able to choose our skin skin as if they were soccer balls. Perhaps,
cation and their tools contributed to shades on the Pantone scale. Indeed, it the decline of interest in cars also
the transition we underwent in re is noteworthy that the policies of quo- changed the relations with the body; no
cent years. tas or any other such thing associated longer does a chassis have to go to the
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auto body shop for refurbishing in hosts that influenced their children au-
order to be more coveted. dience through their ways of acting and
The much dreamed of Flying Back- dressing disappeared, and a curious re-
packs exist today and carry us, but we sult was that there was a drop in teen-
can also use Flying Attire. In a nice tan- age pregnancy.
gible / intangible balance, the invention Increasing acknowledgment of di-
of Eye Drops for Myopia of the Eyes versity as a hallmark of more sustain-
was followed by Eye Drops For Myopia able and harmonious times has even
of the Glance, increasing the ability to led to the formulation of Fundamental
see with the soul. Diverse Rights: having rights to mass
Soon after Rio + 20, other compen- education, housing, or healthcare only Caio Castello (left) and Sarah (right).
satory credits were created the first at- is not enough. We now have the Right FILE Rio de Janeiro, 2011
tempts to regulate flows in 4DxT dimen- to Diverse Housing, Right to Diverse
sions. Dread Credits, paid for activities Healthcare, and to diversity in Educa-
that used to generate fear and eroded tion, Family, Work, Citizenship and all
trust. Credits for Time Consumption, other areas of everyday living.
paid for kronophagic1 activities that Very significant and big changes
wasted excessive amounts of peoples occurred in terms of love relationships,
cognitive surplus. Diversity Credits were such as the new profession known as
the first, and soon showed heavy impact Lust Plunger, a therapist for those cases
on audiovisual production. At the be- in which no one took the initiative; or
ginning of the century it was common the reform of the Foreign Affairs Of-
for the same show to be featured in al- fice, which progressively took over the
most all theaters, jeopardizing diversity. increasingly frequent cases of distance
The credits paid fueled a strong inde- love. In the 10s, we saw a multiplica-
pendent production. Soon, sexy TV tion of sexual options, reaching a total
Demassification of tastes
An extensive demassification of tastes and
preferences will occur. This process will begin
with the democratization of the media, the
appreciation and protection of cultural
products, and freedom of expression. The
World Day of Small Cultural Production will
be instated and all neighborhoods will get
organized to make it a great and important
integration event.
Carlos Eduardo, Leandro, Tais, and Olindo
Antonio, So Paulo, 2010.
Sex Sophistication release operation peared only within an inch of the top that meager centimeter mentioned, into
was launched. In this, as in other areas floor! We are very, very recent in the one year. We then find that we pro-
of life, we dedicated ourselves to fight- evolutionary history of life, and yet, we gressed very slowly, until what would
ing against trivialization, in all forms, have an extraordinary ability to change correspond to December 10th of this ficti-
and moved from quantity to quality. the world around us. Why? What grants tious year. On this day, would begin
Profound and surrendering affec- us this capability? communication through language and,
tion and love relationships, have an ex- This becomes evident in another from then on, the story picks up speed.
traordinary sensitizing potential. With parallel, in which we transform the one The 24th day corresponds to the Upper
them came all the other changes that million eight hundred thousand years of Paleolithic Revolution, with its cave
were already under way, mainly in the
learning and communication processes.
The history of Humanity, which already
has a steeply increasing pace accelerat-
ed even more.
Medieval alchemical engraving. we were all connected by the Web, here are the three pillars that undergird
Johannes Fabricius.
communication systems, GPS, satellites, the framework of our book: Intangible
mobile phones that created a layer of + digital technologies + collaboration.
information and communication in real To feel part of the whole, connect-
time around the planet. And at the ed, healed one of the great evils afflict-
tions of its own time, just shortly over one decade ago, ing humanity and that in the past caused
environment. In we bought-in the Gaia hypothesis, we so much fear, pain and war and, of
recent decades, understood our function as humanity. In course, fanaticism. Finally, we feel that
this hypothesis had the evolution of live beings, the nervous we belong, are welcome. And when the
greater acceptance, system is one of the last things to be primeval deprivation was remedied, the
to the extent that the formed. We are Gaias Nervous System. way was paved for real autonomy.
study and practice of inter- That is why we have this capability to The drive for change was there,
dependence made the interconnections transform everything so fast. That is there was a purpose: to be a good ner-
among all living things more evident. why culture, creativity, and knowledge
As described by a child: It is as though are our Nature.
everything was a pool and in this pool This perception had a greater im-
there were some harder pieces, gelatin, pact than the falling of a giant meteor.
that are the living things. When the The Earth is a living being and we are
pool water moves, everything moves. its nervous system. What a responsibili-
When a small piece of gelatin moves, ty and what an opportunity! Conse-
everything moves. Everyone feels what quently, much has been elucidated and
everyone does. Everyone feels what has given us the means to, in such a
everyone feels short time, change so much. If we are
This is just what happened. We neurons, we need to connect and work
sensed. And all that is sensed makes in integration; synapses are made by
sense. When we felt, we were affected ICTs, the circulation of information and
and the Gaia hypothesis was confirmed. knowledge allows us to feel and experi-
The Nervous
We were able to feel, to sense, because ence Gaia and its processes. Note that System of Gaia. Angela Len,2012.
142 desirable new world
vous system, able to feel with the great- that appeared in the search is that with
est possible accuracy what happened to the highest number of views. Some-
Gaia and all her creatures. We had to thing similar happens with our memory:
know the cycles, favor the flow, under- we remember the things that are associ-
stand the time, and circulate informa- ated with the greatest number of refer-
tion. Be affected. rals. The same process is repeated in na-
This would only be possible if we ture: the more something is repeated,
could go beyond our culture, transcend the more likely it is to last. Biologist
it. Can a nervous system have neurons Rupert Sheldrake5 raised the Formative
that refuse to synapsetyze with oth- Causation hypothesis, according to
ers, for whatever reason? Or have starv- which Nature operates by habit and
ing or obese neurons? Patterns had to every element of nature contributes to
be broken, to prevent us from falling a kind of collective memory, Morphic
into the same habits and mentalities Resonance Fields, that act as matrices.
that had generated an unsustainable Simplified, this means that the more of-
world. How to change our mentalities ten an apple grows round and red, the
and habits? greater the probability that apples will
be round and red. Habit and repetition
shape evolution.
Transcending So, we converge. People and their
languages, using all technologies both
Culture hard and soft to escape the shackles of
Convergence of Disciplines had dis- our culture, to deprogram ourselves, to
closed the enormous power of habit create other sensitivities and glances.
and repetition. This revelation became Some changes can happen by adjust-
explicit through search engines, like the ment, such as a ripening fruit. Others,
late Google, which prioritized access to
5 Morphic Resonance, The Nature of Formative
Jaime Prades, Brazil, 2012. what happens most often: the video Causation, 2009 edition.
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buy designer-brand items, if everything and that rendered so many people pow-
was fake and the result was banaliza- erless and unhappier about their lives
tion and generalized accessibility? There and with what they had.
is little distinction between the jeans The first Renaissance came when
that is worn by a millionaire and the we got united geographically, a mo-
Lucas Buarque,
FILE, Rio de
one worn by a street vendor. Really ment of external knowledge; conquest
Janeiro, 2011. valuable things are of another nature. of space; society and economy oriented
Affection, learning, experiences, towards tangible goods and processes.
only by changing state, like the meta- creation, and care are the ends. All the The second Renaissance came from in-
morphosis of a butterfly. It became im- rest are merely means. We seek inner ner knowledge, conquest of time and
perative to change state and get over comfort. Comfort for the soul and a clear from the quality, understanding, and
the caterpillar stage, both consumeristic conscience. A bountiful heart filled with depth that it provides. From a new
and crawling. Change mentalities and affection, skin satisfied by soft touches, economy and society built upon the
habits, to deprogram repetition. Before, and a mind full of intense memories. The centrality of intangibles and the con-
we learned through pain and by error; new and multiple values, metrics and vergence between the areas and sec-
now, by choice and pleasure. 4DxT indicators that we developed tors it requires.
We started to leave behind our em- helped us to feel that what matters are
phasis on the tangible, and it became relationships; because it was through
quite obvious that money in all its them that we improve and evolve. Cycles, Flows,
forms was a means and not an end. Previously, the life of the nobility
Interestingly, billionaires no longer exist and celebrities was remarkable. Today, Regulation
and there are few who want to devote we know that nothing is as amazing as When we synapsetize and were able
themselves to the stressful activity of everyday life and no fiction comes near to sense Gaia, we were also able to per-
becoming millionaires. Much effort and to what it has to offer. People no longer ceive flows and cycles in several 4DxT
little result, since one cannot take along allow their desire, will, and good faith dimensions and, thus, regulate them.
assets to the hereafter, and the off- to be hijacked by the media. The media We note that in nature, in us, in process-
spring, usually ill-prepared, quickly stopped showing bodies, persons and es, everything happens by pulses, alter-
squander the inherited fortunes. Why situations that were set up and unreal nating phases of expansion and con-
142 desirable new world
know that nothing in nature grows for- We quit the Internet for a while by seeing that there is nothing to lose
ever. In the 4DxT economy, and society, and dedicated ourselves to others. Prac- or fear, because failure usually leads
the word growth was replaced by evo- ticed techniques, such as How Cool! 8, back to the situation in which we al-
lution. But evolution towards what? where contact with others is based on ready are. And, making the effort, the
listening and accepting, on the premise person might just get somewhere else...
that what he or she is and does is really
Homo Estheticus7 cool! And of course it is, since there are
For centuries we have devoted our- no identical human beings on the face
selves to criticizing, pointing out errors, of the Earth, or I should say, in Gaias
identifying problems. The acidity of skin. The game Fortunately and
criticism was a measure of the intellec- Unfortunately9 was also efficient: to
tual competence of those who spread it revise points of view on the facts of life
around. But in order to connect to and it is enough to describe them sometimes
form the nervous system, one had to with the word fortunately and some-
love others. This required a new pos- times with the word unfortunately
ture: to devote oneself to seeing the The game What Could Go Worse?
best and positive in each person or con- helped us to see that everything is rela-
text. To work on existing potencies and tive and that one can always be bolder.
see the glass half full, as I suggest In this game, the person that wants to
throughout the book. We undergo in- do something but is afraid of failure
tense training to see beauty in every comes to realize his or her current situa-
situation of life, to realize the beauty in tion. Afterwards, the person compares
ourselves and in others. And through the situation he or she would have to
beauty we gain lightness and joy that face if the idea actually failed, and ends
pave the way to the possibility of finally 24- hours Wise Man Council. Can be telepathically
establishing binding trust. 8 Infallible relational technique, by Wellington
contacted to answer questions. The users must multiply the
Nogueira and his Doctors of Joy advice received. Giselle Romano and Mariana Lafuente.
Illustration Paulo Lara, Dominican Republic, 2010.
7 See philosopher Michel Maffesoli, and others 9 Game by Adriana Klisys
142 desirable new world
The colors, shapes, sounds, move- breathe, touch, move, like, transform,
ment, and all sorts of experiences per- invent. Synesthesia10 replaced anesthe-
ceived through the (at least...) six senses, sia, since neurons must work with the
prepared us to see beauty, trust, and de- utmost sensitivity and perception.
vote ourselves to affection. As for dress- Children play to learn and so, we
ing, we left behind the classic little black devoted ourselves to playing to develop
dress or jeans and T-shirt, and carefully loving capacity and all forms of love.
chose to wear what best shows who we We expanded the repertoire of degrees
are and what we feel each day. We no and diversity of ties, previously restrict-
longer intend to be anonymous and in- ed to friends, family, and spouses. Men
visible, but rather, we want to be no- learned about complexity, long-term,
ticed and understood in our uniqueness. and care from women. Women, in turn,
The cities and places where everything learned about simplicity, focus, and
Bionic Talking Moustache.
Anonymous. Rio de Janeiro, 2011. communicates, speaks, and provokes, lightness from men. Women, always so
helped us. The forms of every thing serious and sometimes boring, are now
were carefully chosen to be functional. learning to play and to have fun with
Sunday lunch Like the colors of this book, which com- men. Being together began to be more
We realize the importance of contacts and bine the yellow of creation with the vio- fun, and the kronophagic activities no
welcome people who share a common history, let of transformation and with the longer take up much time, which is now
DNA, roots, and decided to retrieve a tradition green of healing. And honor the diver- dedicated to interaction and play to re-
lost many years ago, the Sunday lunch. We sity, lightness, and boldness of the Bra- invent the world. Playing to find out
have created an Exchange of Experience and zilian culture. what others like, what makes us happy,
Affection Network, in which each family shares Realizing that creativity is our es- what is different, what brings us to-
a special moment forming a Bank of Fondness,
sence and nature, we engaged in all gether, what we can build together.
Love, Experiences. Each family also has its own
forms of creation, expression, self- Again, diversity was hailed as the solu-
Materializer to ensure that beloved family
knowledge, and contact. This is how tion and not as the problem.
members get together physically.
Fred Gelli and Roberta Jambor, So Paulo, 2010. drugs and narcotics were replaced by
sensory experiences of all kinds: create, 10 Many senses working together
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no longer individual and become collec- ness that we had been practicing for The Desirable and
tive. And when they reached the collec- years, allowed us to live in the present
the Plausible
tive unconscious they began to germi- and enjoy time. The expression Give an
nate and fertilize attitudes and choices. F513 became recurrent: its reference to Future scenarios usually start from
The change foreseen by the proph- the computer key with the update conditions as they are in the present
ecies took place, but it was not the end function was appropriate, at a time and project them into the future. They
of the world but the end of a world; the when we forgave the past and did not seek plausible futures. But what to do
end of a way of thinking and doing. The fear the future. To Give an F5 in all when we want to change the condi-
pregnant world has changed state. We our differences to enjoy the present tions of the present and project other
went from surviving to living. Animals better. And to better accomplish our things? Break with the present, and
are instinctive and reactive out of fear. mission as sensitive neurons. dream of the desirable. And why do
We, now driven by trust and love, could What about war? Why dont we we believe that the desirable is not
finally be creative, as is fitting for a spe- talk about war? Because it no longer plausible?
cies that dominates languages, has free makes sense. It was the outcome of ig- Choose a plausible future and ask
will, and common sense. norance and, today, nobody believes in yourself if it is what you want. If the an-
We apply our creativity, free will, it. There was even a time when some swer is no, why consider that, although
and common sense to create desirable governments attempted to incite war, undesirable, it is plausible? Do the op-
futures. What for? To have desirable shortly after the 2013 Big Bubble, and posite exercise and think of a desirable
presents. the Data Blackout created to cover up future. Ask yourself if it is plausible. No?
The future is a North Star, a com- responsibilities. But, when called to And why not, since it is desirable? Why
pass12. Its like a tuning fork that tunes serve, people chose not to go to war. not try? Usually, the worst that can hap-
and gives the tone of the present that And if no one goes, there is no war...14 pen in every choice we make is that fail-
we have chosen. For it is in the here and ure can take us back to the same point
now that one can be happy, since the 13 This is one more of the awesome expressions where we started. Why not try, since the
before has passed and the after does hacked by the Circuito Fora do Eixo http://foradoeixo. worst point of arrival is exactly the same
org.br/institucional
not yet exist. The Education for Aware- where we are?
14 See the one-minute film on this subject, directed by
Why not? Why is that so? What is
12 From there the logo of Enthusiasmo: a compass is for Lgis Schartzburd and myself, in the early 1990s. http://
orientation and the butterfly is for transformation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLu2cLx_N0 the purpose? This takes care of what?
Be , R elate , C onnect 155
In 1961, Fred Polak one of the pioneers in futures studies wrote a master- ties, but actively promotes certain choices and in effect puts them to work in
piece: Images of the Future relating the development (or not) of a culture determining the future. A close examination of prevailing images, then, puts us
with how they imagine the future. Below are some paragraphs of the final in a position to forecast the probable future.
chapter in which he synthesizes this relation.1
Any culture which finds itself in the condition of our present culture, turning
() First, we found the positive image of the future at work in every in- aside from its own heritage of positive visions of the future, or actively at work
stance of the flowering of a culture, and weakened images of the future as a in changing these positive visions into negative ones, has no future unless
primary factor in the decay of cultures. The image of the future has been strong counterforces are set in motion soon. This view is of crucial importance
represented as itself subject to a dialectical movement between the poles of for practical policy. It opens up new vistas for policy-makers in the areas where
optimism and pessimism. they still have freedom of planning and action.()
Third, the concept of the image of the future has made it possible to move
from diagnosis to prognosis. This is possible because of the intimate relation-
ship between the image of the future and the future.
The image of the future can act not only as a barometer, but as a regulative
mechanism which alternately opens and shuts the dampers on the mighty
blast-furnace of culture. It not only indicates alternative choices and possibili-
Im interested in the future because its where Ill spend the rest of my life.
Woody Allen
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dade and Overmundo; Reinaldo Pamponet, Its Noon; Wellington Nogueira, Doutores da Alegria; Pedro Jatob, Produtora Cultural Colaborativa;
Fred Gelli, Tctil Design; Angeles Daz, Fundacin Simetrias; Guiomar Alonso Cano, UNESCO; Jess Prieto de Pedro, Consultores Culturales; Incuba-
dora Tecnolgica de Cooperativas Populares daFGV; Cssia Navas, Teatro da Dana; Danielle Fiabane, Instituto Criar; Laura Topete and Jos Luis
Mariscal Orozco, University of Guadalajara UDG Virtual; Francisco Simplicio, Special Unit on South- South Cooperation; Yoshio Kakishima and Sa-
nae Kosugi Bunka Fashion College; Ronaldo Robles,Cia Quase Cinema.
My brother, Daniel, always taking care of everything
and everyone, my sister Monique and also caring-concep-
tual mentors of Crie Futuros: Graa Cabral, Eduardo Gia-
comazzi, Beatrix Overmeer, Thomas Buckup, Lo Brant,
George Yudice, Sylvie Duran, Clio Turino, Fernando Rue-
da, Fernando Vicrio, Sylvina Martinez, Silvia Villar Val-
verde, ngela Hirata, Edson Natale, Julia Forlani, Anna
Helena Altenfelder, Anna Claudia Agazzi, Alvise Migoto,
Lorriane Johnson, Michael Kundt, Ariel Kogan, and the
guys from Circuito Fora do Eixo.
And my very special thanks and apologies to those
who I regretfully forgot to mention, and who I will re-
member as soon as the book is in print.
It was thrilling and fascinating to follow step-by-step the adhesion of the dear 288 crowd funding collaborators listed below.
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Almeida Fabio Feldmann Fernanda Martins Fernanda Rapacci Fernando Belloube Fernando Camilher Almeida Fernando Grecco Fernando Passos
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Ruth Klotzel Ruth Slinger Ryan Donnelly Sabrina Gledhill Sara Asseis De Brito Schirlei Freder Sergio Ajzenberg Srgio Barbosa (Case) Sergio Mastrocola
Sergio Mattos Lomelino Sergio Oeda Sergio Roizenblit Sheila Saraiva Silvia Elboni Silvia M. Do Esprito Santo Silvia Rosenbaum Silvina Martinez Silvio
Francisco Solange Ferraz De Linz Solange Salva Sonia Lara Sonia Sobral Tadeu Jungle Tais Tatit Barossi Tnia Bustamante Tania Nomura Tatiana Cobbett
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HISTory
JUN So Paulo, Brazil. Future and Innovation Crie Futuros - Mckinsey. Launch of Web TV Crie Futuros. Simultaneous transmission of events.
Aug So Paulo, Brazil. Crie Futuros Presentation at the Cultural Center of Spain. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Crie Futuros Ibero-America Collaborative Technology and Production.
Crie Futuros Encounter Spanish Cooperation. Crie Futuros Ibero-American Games and Best Worlds.
Crie Futuros Presentation Pecha Kucha Knight 2008. JUN Meeting of social entrepreneurs and innovators with Bruce Mau,
Denver, USA.
Denver, USA.
2008
2009
Launch new version of Wikifuturos 2.0 - more collaborative and
the support of Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Aug So Paulo, Brazil.
appropriate to the Wiki concept.
Development.
Workshop Crie Futuros Sustainable Puc - DERDIC.
So Paulo, Brazil. Crie Futuros Evening - Cultural Saturday.
Montevideo, Uruguay. Crie Futuros Workshop in the prison for women.
Crie Futuros Presentation at the Sixth Euro-American Campus for
2009
MAR Buenos Aires, Cultural Cooperation. Barcelona, Spain. Reflection on the future of literary forms.
Argentina. Launch of site WIkifuturos 1.0 - Collaborative Digital Encyclopedia of So Paulo, Brazil. Workshop Crie Futuros Sustainable Puc - DERDIC.
Desirable Futures.
Montevideo, Uruguay. Crie Futures Workshop on the futures of art performance.
Crie Futuros and Creative Economy Workshop. Creative Industries
Valparaso, Chile. Crie Futuros Workshop and Radio Program.
Program.
SET
Santo Domingo,
Creation of the Crie Futuros Network with members in seven Crie Futuros Workshop Ibero-American Cultural Chart.
MAI Valparaiso, Chile. Domenican Republic.
countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Peru, Dominican Republic
e Uruguay. Reflection on the future of art practices, Centro de Creacin y
Barcelona, Spain
Pensamiento Contemporneo de Matar Can Xalant.
Crie Futuros Launch of social network. www.criefuturos.com.br.
Lima, Peru. Crie Futuros Workshop - The Future of Transportation and the City.
OUT Montevideo, Uruguay Making-of the video El futuro de La Web.
So Paulo, Brazil. Crie Futuros Seminar - New Banks and Currency.
C redits , A cknowledgements , and H istory 163
Madrid, Spain. Reflection of the future of the independent cultural agents. Rosrio, Argentina. Ibero-American Virtual Parliament Workshop.
ABR
Crie Futuros Encounter- Spain. El futuro de la cultura. Campinas, Brazil. Crie Futuros Workshop at the Social DNA Forum.
Barcelona, Spain.
Crie Futuros Workshop with educators. JAN- Brazil e Domenican Development of Pocket Future based on the Creative Economy
OUT MAI Republic. Seminar.
Toledo, Spain. Criar Toledo: Workshop, urban action e shows Crie Futuros.
Wikidelcia - Meeting for conversation and exchange of experiences
The Future of Tourism. JUN So Paulo, Brazil.
Montevideo, Uruguay and creation of futures.
Exhibition: nas Esquinas de Montevideo. JUL So Paulo, Brazil. Crie Futuros FILE.
2010
Montevideo, Gala closure of the presentation of the futures created in Uruguay in Parati, Brazil. Crie Futuros Workshop at the FLIP ZONE (Parati International Book Fair).
Uruguay. 2009.
Aug Wikidelcia - Meeting for conversation and exchange of experiences
Toledo, Uruguay. Crie Futuros Workshop with children. So Paulo, Brazil.
and creating of futures.
Barcelona, Spain. Reflection on the future of audiovisual. So Paulo, Brazil. Workshop Melanie Swan.
Vitria, Esprito Crie Futuros Workshop in the Seminar Tokyo, Japan. Creative economy, sustainability and the future, Bunka Fashion College.
Santo, Brazil Rede Jovem - Um Esprito de um Tempo.
2009
2011
ABR Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FILE Games Rio 2011 Address the future - Create Desirable Futures.
Crie Futuros Workshop and Lecture Rede Globo - Trends for desirable
Embu, Brazil.
futures. MAI Porto Alegre, Brazil. Crie Futuros Workshop in VIVO enCena POA.
Crie Futuros Encounter Dominican Republic - El futuro del design y JUN Salvador, Brazil. Crie Futuros workshop in VIVO enCENA Salvador.
Santo Domingo,
de la Fotografa. Special issue of the Lengua magazine with created
Domenican Republic. Chascomus,
futures. MAR Crie Futuros Workshop in REM 2.0.
Argentina.
Lecture Crie Futuros: Redes Virtuales y futuros deseables at the 18th
Guadalajara, Mexico. Gathering of futures in Virada Cultural.
International Meeting on Distance Education. So Paulo, Brazil.
2012
DEZ MAI Shadow shows Crie Futuros in Virada Cultural.
Crie Futuros at The Sixth International Conference on Innovation and
So Paulo, Brazil.
Management (ICIM 2009). Barroso, Brazil. Crie Futuros Workshop Minas Retroverso.
Rosrio, Argentina. Planning of the Ibero-American Cultural Virtual Parliament. Gathering of futures in Virada Sustentvel.
JUN So Paulo, Brazil.
2010
JAN Montevideo,
Crie Futuros Meeting with Uruguay Facilitators. Crie Futuros Workshop Ecoao Cultural in Centro Cultural So Paulo.
Uruguay.
FEV So Paulo, Brazil. Crie Futuros Ttil Workshop.
Between its inception and distribution, this
book was completed in 90 days by a frantic and happy
team. We thank you for having come this far and apologize for
any inevitable slips that you may find.
We take this opportunity to say that the desirable futures, both
plausible and implausible, were printed by Pancrom, on the day
of the Venus eclipse of 2012, on Couche Kroma Gloss
paper using Frutiger and HandTimes fonts.
Jaime Prades,
2012.
If everything was possible, how would you want
things to be? This is the question that gave rise to
the desirable futures upon which this book is based
and organized according to everyday-life themes:
Gain, Valuate, Negotiate Govern, Decide, Coordinate
Inhabit, Move, Circulate Care, Nurture, Preserve
Learn, Create, Communicate Be, Relate, Connect
The creative outlook on life, in 2042, has three pillars that are essential to sustainability in
the future: Creative Economy, an economy based on intangible resources; information and
communication technologies; and collaborative processes plus new ways of organizing a
network society.
Produced with the support of 288 people by crowd funding at the Catarse website plus:
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