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Futurist in Residence
Discovery Research
Critical Design

Exploring possible terrains for preferable futures

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Updated 30.03.25

I specialize in running interventions that require oscillating between individual issues and broader societal challenges at higher levels of complexity.

My work ranges from sense-making and rapid ethnographic deep dives to rich future scenarios and mapping innovation tracks.

I have a reputation for uncovering structural issues, framing paradigms and asking new and relevant questions that open up space for change-making.

I am currently exploring globally diverse, multi-layered systems that ensure the availability, circulation and security of cash, with a particular emphasis on understanding the social dynamics that underpin its use and value.

Since 2010, I’ve been experimenting with generative arts, exploring how AI can enhance creativity, knowledge work, future thinking and discovery research in strategic design.

This is my augmented unlearning journey. My slow-motion blog is here. I am writing a Codex to help designers drive more impact. I am also documenting my strategic design system Wangjitsu. You can see my explorations with AI and images over here.

You can connect with me using my contact page form, by scheduling a call or following me on social media.

Pascal Wicht

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Preferable futures

1st April 2025
Preferable futures aren’t about prediction—they’re about orientation. In a world of uncertainty, they help us ask what should be protected, who is included and what must be refused. They don’t offer answers, but open space to imagine otherwise and move with purpose.
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Practical imagination

30th March 2025
Imagination is not a luxury—it’s how we stay human in uncertain times. When the world feels locked into patterns of control, prediction and short-term fixes, practical imagination opens space to breathe, to wonder and to ask: what else could be possible?
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The Commons

25th March 2025
The commons are shared resources collectively governed by communities through practices of self-organization, cooperative stewardship and participatory decision-making. More than a category of resources, the commons represent a social and economic system that prioritizes equitable access, long-term sustainability and collective benefit over private accumulation. Unlike conventional property models, commons-based governance…
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Flat Holism

22nd March 2025
Flat holism fails to scale sense-making beyond individual perception, leading to an epistemic drift where systemic issues—inequality, climate collapse and economic precarity—are reframed through mystical or esoteric lenses. Instead of engaging with history, power and material conditions, it reduces societal complexity to personal healing, vibrational energy and spiritual evolution.
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A project by Pascal Wicht
2018 – 2025
Switzerland