Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Output - Hub Town Hall Presentation 14 May 2013

At the Hub Town Hall meeting on 14 May Helen presented the output of this foresight process to the Hub core team and member community. Check out the slides here:

 
Presentation hub futures reporting from Adam Jorlen

Other outputs from this process were posted on our Yammer page...

Catalyst > Experiment > Structure

Explaining each 'sub-plot' to enable others to write a meaningful/contextual narrative (taking Option 1):
Catalyst = Discover serendipitiously or from intentional scanning an issue, concern or opportunity that indicates a useful new body of knowledge or skill, if only we took the time to figure out what it was about and thus replicate it.
Experiment = With a specified hypothesis or concept, experiment to see what is possible, probable, useful, desirable. Apply and battle-test the knowledge or skill in real contexts to learn what works and doesn't, and develop those useful tips/hints that make things really stick.
Structure = Form the knowledge/skill into a format-mode that can be easily shared-digested or taught-learnt. Get the knowledge mobilised to be useful to a broader audience, and start a groundswell of change.

Q: What's significant about this for Hub futures? A: That the knowledge or skills are for the 'new work' or 'new way of being' we want to encourage, enable or sponsor.

By Helen Palmer

hub.[next]

hub.[next] ~ a weave using the fragments of {intergenerations, education, politics, and leadership}. hub.[next] is a placeholder for what’s next.

In 2013 people arrive at HubMelbourne to actualize their “call to adventure”.
In 2014 and beyond, hub.[next] acts as a catalyst and generative change lab for both mainstream and edgestream organizations to act-out new calls to adventure.

While more people came TO HubMelbourne in 2013, hub.[next] will go TO more people in 2014 and beyond. hub.[next] touches society at more levels and in more dramatic ways than ever before. This reflects the dramatic change in hub membership ... not only in quantative reach, but also in the nature of the meshworks of peer-to-peer and edge-to-edge connections that share experiences of new ways-of-being.

As part of a reboot, three touchpoints of hub.[next] are hub.[K12], hub.[PP] and hub.[Igen].  hub.[K12] is an education movement that is touching and transforming education opportunities. hub.[PP] is a public policy lab (loosely based on MindLab in Denmark) that is touching political landscapes and transforming the terrain of political engagement. hub.[Igen] is an intergenerational meshwork of connections that connects generational modes of wisdom and transforms leadership capacity.

hub.[Inc] is still an innovation change lab.  Within a variety of incubator spaces, a diverse range of entrepreneurial and innovation startups extend their reach across geographic (and other) boundaries. hub.[next] has global reach and is active within and across global regions that connects Australia with Asia and beyond.

Within each new touchpoint of hub.[next] leadership practice is based on a liquid democracy model, ensuring the nature of leadership touches the original intent of democratic agency. It also ensures the day-in-the-life experience of hub.[next] is one of simplicity, empathy and agility. 

By Neil Houghton


Hub Wanderers



‘Clearly, the Bedouins are closer to being good than sedentary people.’ 
- Ibn Khaldun

I am writing something around another sub plot going from sedentary/stationary Hub spaces onto a circus-like, nomadic existence  where hubbers are moving between different spaces in the world, aided by  wearable technology and a system of seamless transfer solutions for  accommodation, transport, income, childcare, school etc. This scenario  is based on the wanderer archetype.

 To be continued…

 By Adam Jorlen

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