How To Explore The Future (and Why) @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

To develop our comprehensivity, our understanding of the world and its peoples, we actively seek out traditions and resources that give us new perspectives and new approaches for our lives. This event will explore the future through the enterprising approach of the brilliant young futurist Angela Oguntala.

I am posting this event early to invite the ambitious participant who is particularly interested in this topic to engage the full set of resources.

Core Resources (recommended):
● 41m Angela Oguntala presentation on "Exploring Alternative Futures" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MBUqqwAslc
● Watch Oguntala's 13m TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-BGlAqeDc (or at https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_oguntala_re_imagine_the_future)
● My essay curating the ideas we will explore at the event: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/05/how-to-explore-the-future-and-why/

Optional Resources (for those who are fascinated by Oguntala's work and want to explore her references more deeply):
● Read the Caribbean science fiction novel "Midnight Robber" by Nalo Hopkinson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Robber)
● Watch 1h 27m Nollywood film "The Mirror Boy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okv7vqIja64
● Search YouTube for "Strong Woman Ozokwor" and "take a chance" that one of the several Nollywood films with Patience Ozokwor that are presented are akin to the film that Oguntala discusses in her 41m talk featured above. When I did this exercise three years ago, I found that the film "The Mirror Boy" makes Oguntala's point better than movies returned by this YouTube search.
● Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains the value of having many stories: https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg
● Ann Morgan's site A Year of Reading The World: https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science‬
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of being a Comprehensivist‬
‪Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela‬
‪Aug 26: Art Education: Individual & Society with Karen ‬
‪Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay‬
‪Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
‪Sep 16: Literature and our lives: the Fiction of Relationship‬
‪Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)‬
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant

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