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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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Between climate worlds

20th April 2025
To age into the Anthropocene is to inhabit a split — between memory and condition, instinct and emergence. We do not suffer change. We suffer miscalibration. Legacy logics meet nonlinear worlds. What frays is not just climate, but orientation itself.
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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 managed by communities through cooperation and care. They offer a practical alternative to market and state control, focusing on sustainability, equity and collective well-being. Today, commons-based approaches are re-emerging as powerful tools for building more resilient and regenerative futures.
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Whispers & Giants
A project by Pascal Wicht
2018 – 2025
Switzerland