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## Syllabus

Every future scenario is built by detecting “weak signals” that set trends and point to certain directions, based on the analysis of the main change factors we can detect in the present. And the present for 2022 is a convulsed place, subjected to immense systemic crises that generate doubts about the survival of the status quo in multiple spheres.
As a transversal and ongoing project of the Masters in Design for Emergent Futures, the Atlas of Weak Signals presents a space and a structure in which to navigate and position ourselves in this complex panorama, allowing for students and faculty to find design and intervention contexts and opportunities.
The goal of this first Weak Signals in the Wild Week is to give the students a general overview of the signals and toolkit that constitute the ongoing Atlas, a showcase of the research projects developed by former students and research faculty, and finally, a glimpse into a specific context which offers a hyper-local and situated view of some of the possible vectors that the Atlas presents.

## Additional Resources

Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses - Dan Hill

Exposing the magic of Design - John Kolko

Frame Innovation - Kees Dorst

A more beautiful question - Warren Berger

Design, When everybody Designs - Ezio Manzini

Design for the Real World - Victor Papanek

Critical Zones - Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel

Leading from the Emerging Future - Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer

### Netography

http://donellameadows.org/dancing-with-systems/

https://thesystemsthinker.com/guidelines-for-designing-systemic-interventions/

https://medium.com/fieldnotes-by-sam-rye/towards-targeted-systems-change-7f4db6febb51

https://medium.com/weareholon/performing-transitions-within-emergent-paradigms-452a63949b20

http://jonkolko.com/writingSensemaking.php

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vDA4K1-ceE0aNtWD5hP1IOOJJoQ2jj_4/view?usp=sharing

https://medium.com/weareholon/the-everyday-of-cooperative-housing-la-borda-de-can-batll%C3%B3-1d123955ae35

https://medium.com/@camerontw

https://design.cmu.edu/sites/default/files/Transition_Design_Monograph_final.pdf

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