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A Brief History of the Future
'If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.' John Galsworthy Predicting the future is a notoriously precarious, profitable and even dangerous business. This book takes a look at the most interesting, important and influential futurists over the years; from Delphi's virgin visionaries, to pop futurists, science fiction writers, trend gurus and evolutionary experts. It provides a chronological history of the future, looking at the predictions that have shaped our world - Leonardo's flying machines; Darwin's evolutionary theory; Mendeleyev's periodic table; Marx's political futurism; Orwell's Big Brother; von Neumann's game theory that nearly led to World War Three; Buckminster ...
The Kindness Economy
The Kindness Economy is a powerful new force for change in business and a growing trend that will improve everything from how we work to how we live in our homes, communities, and cities. In an age of much unkindness, burnout, and notoriously monstrous management, we need a new, positive vision for the future. In this book, futurist and trend researcher Oona Horx Strathern offers an optimistic look at how we can create a healthy economy in which we are kinder to people and the planet while still making a profit. Through examples and anecdotes as well as personal and professional insights, The Kindness Economy explores how we can combine values with value and think differently about how we want to spend, work, and live.
Drivers of Change
What will the world look like in 2050? How secure is your water supply? Can we all be consumers? When does waste become a resource? These are just some of the provocative questions posed by this collection of cards focused on why and how our world is changing. Conceived and designed by the Foresight, Innovation and Incubation team at Arup, the influential consulting firm that advises on all aspects of the built environment, this card set features seven topics that have been chosen as headings for further discussion: energy, waste, climate change, water, demographics, urbanization and poverty. The 189 cards are divided into five domains known as the STEEP framework: societal, technological, e...
Inequality and Uncertainty
It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but that they also accumulate and reflect significant problems. This book explores the relational and dynamic nature of urban inequalities, including their visible and invisible forms. By using the rather elusive term of ‘uncertainty’, the authors zoom in on specific aspects of urban inequalities that are difficult to measure, yet are acutely sensed and experienced by people and, more and more often, perceived as unfair. Here, in the recognition of inequalities as unjust and in the disagreement with the status quo, lies a positive aspect of uncertainty, which can lead to a social awakening and more active citizenship.
Kindness Economy
People, planet, profit Oona Horx Strathern, Co-Founder Zukunftsinstitut Horx, betreibt eine kluge und erhellende Gegenwartsanalyse mit hohem Unterhaltungswert. Mit viel Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn beschreibt die Zukunftsforscherin die aktuelle Umwälzung in Wirtschaft und auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Die Kindness-Revolution wird Einfluss haben auf all unsere Lebensbereiche: Wie wir wohnen, wie wir unseren Alltag leben, was wir kaufen und wie und vor allem wo wir arbeiten. Kindness – neu verstanden und authentisch gelebt – ist ein Prinzip, das sich strategisch einsetzen lässt, um den Erfolg eines Unternehmens zu steigern. Freundlichkeit, die aus dem inneren Sinn eines Unternehmens kommt, ka...
Home Report 2020
Oona Horx-Strathern setzt den Fokus auf die dringlichen Fragen, Trends und Ideen, die uns zu neuen Denkmustern inspirieren: Wie kann die Architektur unserer Städte, unserer Gebäude, aber vor allem auch die Architektur unseres Lebens besser gestaltet werden? (Quelle: Zukunftsinstitut).
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
‘Nadja Spiegelman shows love, anger, long-lived pain and late-learned gratitude contriving to coexist, as each woman shapes her story.’ Times Literary Supplement A memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. More than Nadja Spiegelman’s famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers—French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly—exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja’s body changed and ‘began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand’, their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mo...
Bonnettstown, a House in Ireland
Photographs show the grounds, outbuildings, and rooms of an eighteenth-century Irish manor house
Wir bauen ein Zukunftshaus
Vom Abenteuer, ein Zukunftshaus zu bauen Die Zukunftsforscherfamilie Horx-Strathern hat am Rand von Wien ein Haus für die Zukunft gebaut: das »Future Evolution House«. Kurzweilig und mit viel Ironie schildert Oona Horx-Strathern das Drama seiner Entstehung. Sie erzählt, wie es zum Wunsch nach einem Eigenheim kam, welchen Anforderungen einer modernen Familie es genügen sollte, von sensiblen Architekten und noch sensibleren Nachbarn, den emotionalen Hochs und Tiefs während des Baus und wie Architektur heute den neuen Energietrends, innovativen Technologien, aber auch moderner Raumgestaltung Rechnung tragen kann. Nicht zuletzt ist das Buch eine ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, wie wir in absehbarer Zukunft wohnen und leben werden.
Future Products 2004
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