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Futurist in Residence
Discovery Research
Critical Design

Pascal Wicht
Exploring and creating preferable futures trajectories

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Updated 12.03.25

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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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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In praise of a Promethean design practice

20th February 2025
The idea that "the design method is no method" feels liberating, but it functions as a containment strategy, keeping design from questioning power. A methodless design culture traps designers in surface-level iteration—free to explore but never to confront.
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Ethics of Intuition

12th February 2025
Intuition feels certain but is shaped by bias, experience, and power. While expertise can refine it, unchecked intuition reinforces dominant norms. Ethical intuition requires reflection, testing, and accountability—evolving through critique rather than insisting on certainty.
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A project by Pascal Wicht
2018 – 2025
Switzerland