How To Explore The Future (and Why) @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays
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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/
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”.
An introductory series of videos from past events can be watched at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2chIX3Hk5gHXf9bzxcjVxNA
CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY
Dec 16: Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIHsVIzGlw
Jan 13: The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5dv4daAxL4
Feb 17: Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxp5owgjiI
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How To Explore The Future (and Why) @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays