Dear Synthesis Folks and friends,

These Medium articles provide some background to the #NextGen people in the United Nations Development Program with whom Vangelis and I are working to build the alternate reality + role playing scenario game:  “Navigating Crisis 2020” …

The allied younger generations in that program seem be maturely embedded in their respective nations' socio-political and economic milieus, open to ways of thinking that are fresh for that sector,  and committed to ameliorating effects of structural violence.   This comes across with some urgency in my direct conversations with some of the younger staff in South Asia, Africa, South America.  

It will be interesting to see how we can step up our game with experiential / enactive methods that are more rigorous, affectively engaged, and thoughtful than the “innovation” or “accelerator” exercises typical in the “progressive” business / design / technology  world.  It will also be enlightening to work outside the ideological scaffolding of commercial high tech typical of media labs in the United States and Western Europe.  Minimax design in action: from unplugged … custom tech, in that order.