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Amanda Reeves | Wabi Sabi Futures
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Futurist, facilitator, artist, art therapist in training
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Got the Melbourne winter blues? Bad case of the Mondays? I have just the thing!

Next Monday I’m running Building Stories About the Future with LEGO - a fun, affordable night requiring zero prior knowledge - perfect for a cold night during cozzie livs.

🎟️ www.lanewaylearning.com/melbourne/cl...
5 people sit around a table covered in LEGO, cards, hand outs and drinks. They are all engrossed in building with LEGO. We can see the face of one woman, she is grinning broadly 4 people are seated around a table covered in LEGO blocks. Hands are reaching in to select bricks, or are busy assembling them into a model. No faces can be seen. A person facing away from the camera is seated at a table covered in LEGO blocks. They are pointing to a LEGO model they have built. Next to them are cards which read 'the thing from the future'
July 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I'm dusting off my LEGO kit for the much anticipated return of Building Stories About the Future with LEGO!

Come along for a relaxed, playful, and budget friendly introduction to thinking about the future and we create some weird, wild, and wonderful visions of potential futures.
Building Stories about the Future in LEGO with Amanda - Laneway Learning Melbourne
The stories we tell ourselves about the future shape just about everything we do in the present.  In this session we will stretch our own thinking by using LEGO to build new and wonderful stories abou...
www.lanewaylearning.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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“The character of *the reader* is a strange and curious one. While being entirely individual and with his or her own reactions, the reader is so intimately linked with the writer that the truth is that the reader *is* the writer.”

— Clarice Lispector (Feb. 1968)
April 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
May 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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We really said "let's make survival contingent on employment" and then "let's eliminate employment" in the same breath
May 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
This book came out today and I have a story in it and you should get the book
vagabonderro.bsky.social Alexander M. Krijgsman @vagabonderro.bsky.social · May 27
Good "call from my local bookstore day that my order is in day" care of @margaret.bsky.social, @leemandelo.bsky.social, et. al.
New copy of the anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity edited by Lee Mandelo
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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simonbrew.bsky.social
My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.
May 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
wabisabifutures.bsky.social
Every now and then I forget what timeline I am in and reality reads as absurdity
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · May 20
Can Steve Witkoff, Trump's friend and golfing partner, make world peace? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: https://theatln.tc/8b2ZQDNs
May 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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meredithsnextday.bsky.social
I wrote an e-book called Experiri which is a collection of articles about creative process and what it is to live a creative life. Or to try to. You can buy it and download it at my online shop (and support my writing in the process).
#creativity

www.meredithlewis.com.au/shop/p/exper...
Experiri — Meredith Lewis
An e-zine featuring articles about creative process and what it is to live a creative life.
www.meredithlewis.com.au
May 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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I'm going to be one of the facilitators for The Adaptation Game at St Kilda Library on 24 May. Come along!

How prepared are you for climate change in your local community?

More information here: library.portphillip.vic.gov.au/whats-on/gam...
Games Day | Port Phillip Library Service
library.portphillip.vic.gov.au
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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I wrote an e-book called Near and Far, which is a collage of interviews I did with experts about the role of the arts and creativity in interdisciplinary collaborations.

#art #creativity

You can buy it here: www.meredithlewis.com.au/shop/p/near-...
Near and Far — Meredith Lewis
Near and Far looks at how arts workers (or other creatives), their practices, content and ideas impact collaborations. How can they enrich, challenge, and affect the projects and teams they work with?...
www.meredithlewis.com.au
May 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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“In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
May 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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futuresaunty.bsky.social
Check out the resource I have created exploring intergenerational fairness and future generations. Intergenerational Ambition shares information and links from an Aotearoa New Zealand perspective. It is a free download.
#intergenerational
#futuregenerations
bit.ly/intergenerat...
May 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Gloria Anzaldúa, always and ever.
Photo of a text that says: When I write I hover. When I write I hover above myself and sometimes I zoom in and out. I am both me and not me, the eye that looks at things is my eye yet another's eye. When I write I am both most myself and least myself. When I write I escape my condition but the writing always takes me back to confront my condition because to write is to live in made up worlds. I write not just to escape reality but to create a new reality. I write because it's my calling, my task to do in the world. I write. It is a ritual, a habit, a propensity bred in my bones. It is what I do. I write because I like to think on paper. I write because I like to think, and to track my thoughts. I write because I want to leave a discernable mark on the world.
May 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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WOW. A teacher told me, "I gave one of my 2nd grade (dyslexic) students your nature poetry prompt. He is reluctant to write because of challenges with spelling, but I suspect he’s gifted. I told him just to write and we’d sort out the spelling later. This is what he wrote."
Mammoths and Ants Look at the fragile mushrooms. Look at the Black Widow. Pause with me a moment, and hear the cicadas humming. Here is where I'm home, among the mammoth Redwoods. When I was lost, the ants absorbed me, calling me to the smallness of Earth. There I heard the Song of Silence. Come with me through the minuscule. Listen. The cicadas are humming. —by a 2nd grader with the help of a prompt from The Magic Words by Joseph Fasano
May 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Wrote this in February 2023 somehow about the problems that happen when people treat generative AI as a search engine. People trust what comes out of a search engine, and out of things that look like search engines, and the results can/will be/have been grim

www.wheresyoured.at/degenerative...
What happens if Bing AI or Bard becomes so widespread that they become sources of information that consumers rely on? What happens if Bing AI tells somebody suffering from crippling depression that they have “not been a good user” at the wrong time? What happens if somebody relies on Bing for “advice” and that advice results in them doing something unethical or illegal? While these are problems one might have with ChatGPT itself, they become much more pronounced when the source of this information is a search engine, which is a product that hundreds of millions of people have been conditioned to trust and respect? And the reason that these risks are so significant is that both Microsoft and Google were desperate to show that they will never, ever stop growing. They did not slowly and methodically roll out these products with constant reminders of their fallibility - they branded and marketed them as the future, as the new way in which we request and process information. Microsoft and Google’s customers are victims of rich people playing with toys, hoping to find ways to please rich people that invest the money of other rich people. The result will be genuine human suffering as a result of dressing a fallible, experimental intelligence up as an authoritative source of information. People will be inspired to harm themselves or others, all while their ideas and likenesses are counterfeited and monetized, all so that wealthy executives can tell the world - and Wall Street - that their companies are “innovative.”
May 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Ten years ago this would have been called something like "A Better World is Possible". Even the optimistic book titles are getting bleaker.
April 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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meredithsnextday.bsky.social
I visited this lovely and gently thought-provoking event earlier. It was an oasis of calm in a frenetic day.
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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How does a tree experience time? What would you ask it?

Visit MPavilion Parkville tomorrow 11:30-2 to connect with a tree and send it a postcard. You can also:
- write a poem about the changing seasons
- leave your mark on our human sundial
- feel into a felt calendar
- share what time means to you
A little red mailbox full of postcards written to trees A long wooden table holds a large branch, a mailbox, markers and clipboards, with a poster above asking "How does a tree experience time?" A black piece of felt is covered with a pattern of brightly coloured shapes A concrete surface shows the outlines of a dozen people's shadows drawn in multicoloured chalk. The angle of the shadows fans out from a circle marked on the ground with blue tape.
April 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Look at your calendar. How do you feel?

At Felt Time today we had some great chats with people exploring the shapes and structures that felt best for them. How tight should the pieces fit together? How much open space is needed? When do we value structure, and when do we prefer an organic approach?
Brightly coloured felt shapes on a black felt backing. There are straight line shapes at the top and bottom, and a cluster of different coloured blobs in the centre.
April 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Keen to play with time but short on time? We got you!

Drop by MPavilion Parkville this Tue-Thu and pick up a Felt Time zine. Leander and I have curated 4 pocket-sized take away activities.

Time to spare? Explore 5 more invitations while you're there!

events.unimelb.edu.au/MPavilion/ev...
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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"The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes."

- Brian Eno, The Big Here and Long Now

longnow.org/essays/big-h...
The Big Here and Long Now - By Brian Eno - The Long Now
It was 1978. I was new to New York. A rich acquaintance had invited me to a housewarming party, and, as my cabdriver wound his way down increasingly potholed and dingy streets, I began wondering whether he'd got the address right. Finally he stopped at the doorway of a gloomy, unwelcoming industrial building. Two winos were crumpled on the steps, oblivious. There was no other sign of life in the whole street.
longnow.org
April 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
what makes humans great is that of all the species to ever live we invented subsistence farming and then immediately invented everything else we ever did in order to not have to do subsistence farming
April 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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How do you notice the change of season?

Join Leander & I at MPavilion Parkville next Tue, Wed & Thu in exploring how we experience time. Tune in to the shifting seasons, write a poem, and leave your mark on our big ol' roll of paper.

Full info: events.unimelb.edu.au/MPavilion/ev...
April 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Now has no place in a narrative account except as a point of reference. In a narrative, the now that is being talked about has already happened. It puts past and future nows into relation. It is not a direct experience. Only the telling is happening now."

- Daniel Stern
April 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM