Future Mapping: You Are Here

Abstract

I was recently asked to share thoughts on how to co-create the future in honor of International Women’s Day, for Creative Switzerland. My first thought was a question: Who are the cartographers mapping human futures today? In reply, I turn to the pages of Leonardo and the work across the Leosphere that chart a course forward led by irrepressible curiosity, experimental collaborations, and creative sparks of experience and inquiry. I think of women whose vision, ingenuity, and resilience inspire us all. Women of valor who interweave strength with courage and humility. I think of men whose insights, vulnerability, humor, and humanity enable us all. Men of true grit, grace, and generosity. I think of people of all genders embracing the truth of who we are at our core. I think of those who are emerging and those yet to come. My unborn granddaughter, my nieta, and the generations to follow. These are the mapmakers shaping our shared future.