APF Reading Club - The Futures of Creativity & Compassion Edition

What roles do creativity and compassion play in futures thinking and strategic foresight?

In this newly rebranded APF Reading Club session, we invite you to an open hour of sharing and discussion centered on the book Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds.

This work was the second most-voted title during our inaugural APF Book Club session and has once again been recommended—this time by the APFxOCAD Futures of Creativity & Compassion organizing team.

We see this as both a sign and a timely opportunity to delve deeper into The Futures of Creativity and Compassion through the lens of this thought-provoking book.

*Special thanks to the APFxOCAD Toronto Gathering Team for their thoughtful and insightful recommendations.

Please see the full list of recommendation from the APFxOCAD Toronto Gathering organization team:

• Designs for Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence Autonomy and the Making of Worlds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designs_for_the_Pluriverse) 

• Decolonizing Global Ethics: Thinking with the Pluriverse (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs/article/abs/decolonizing-global-ethics-thinking-with-the-pluriverse/681A58D039F15B653CF338FB94629106) 

• Octavia Butler - parable of the Sower (https://www.octaviabutler.com/theauthor) 

• Braiding Sweetgrass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braiding_Sweetgrass) *also available as listening version, narrated by the author

• Emergent Strategy (https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/)

• Sand Talk (https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/sand-talk) 

• Research Is Ceremony - Indigenous Research Methods (https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/research-is-ceremony-shawn-wilson)

• Design Justice (https://designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu/) 

• Station Eleven (miniseries) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven_(miniseries)) 

• You Belong - A call for connection (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/you-belong-sebene-selassie?variant=39314600034338) 

• Everyday habits for transforming systems

• The Service Berry by Robin Wall Kimmerer