A Plaguing Provocation
Five years ago, a plague forced us into a global crisis that directly impacted our daily lives, marking a drastic, irrevocable change in the ways we worked, played and habitated.
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Or did it? ​​
Have we,
in essence,
learned nothing?
My intrepid futures and foresight (and temporary disasterologist) Jigsaw Foresight colleagues and I devised a series of whimsical interventions to help people think through what they would need to ensure their own survival in various types of plagues: not bare-bones actual physical survival techniques like having sufficient clean water, medications and a supply of canned food; there are plenty of much better places to get advice for that.
What I wanted to know was what people feel they need to hold onto the essence of themselves when the entire world around them changes.
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Read on to find out what we found...
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- Caitlin