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📢 Help Map the Canadian Foresight Community! 📢 We’re creating a free and publicly open visual networking map to connect foresight professionals and futures-thinking practitioners across private, government, not-for-profit, and academic sectors in Canada. 🌍  Inspired by the Aotearoa Futures Network Map (shoutout to Victoria Mulligan!), this initiative will: ✅ Make it easier to find and connect with peers ✅ Encourage collaboration and knowledge-sharing ✅ Break down silos & bring the Canadian community closer ✅ Accelerate our collective learning This initiative isn’t about replacing existing communities—it’s about ensuring we see, strengthen, and support our growing ecosystem of foresight professionals. 👉 How can you join? Be part of our first data intake to help bring this map to life! If you’re engaged in foresight and futures thinking in Canada, sign up now and let’s build something amazing together! 📩 Sign up to be part of the first data intake: https://tally.so/r/wvd2Zg More details upon the sign-up in follow-ups. 👉 Join our growing community: https://tally.so/r/3jkxRQ ✨ Let’s map the community together! ✨ Please share links with those who may be interested and share the post! #Foresight #StrategicForesight #Networking #Canada #FutureThinking #FutureThinking #Networking #Canada #PolicyHorizons #SFI #OCAD #Futures #foresightlab #visualmap Suzanne Stein Michele Mastroeni Pierre Lee

Over the past year, I was part of the guest editorial team for an issue of The Gateways Journal which explored writing research differently. As a community changemaker, I have been intrigued by the challenge of making academic research more accessible to collaborative and community change efforts. It often seems that the academic research world and the community change world are siloed systems which intersect but not always in a mutually reinforcing way. I want to congratulate Margaret Malone, The Gateways Journal, the guest editors and most importantly the researchers and community partners who have contributed to this important shift in ensuring research is both more accessible and impactful. Check out the Gateways Journal and the associated articles. We hope it will shift your thinking if you are an academic researcher or a community changemaker. Access the Gateways Journal here - https://lnkd.in/g7MNM3Rs

We are hiring for senior faculty positions! This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact on students and the design industry. Send your resume to careers@bitsdesign.edu.in if you're passionate about mentorship and transformative experiences. Nandita Abraham Mandar Kale Samir Parker Khusboo Jogani Lakshmi S Gaurav Shergill Sangeeth Sankar Rupin Chheda   #BITSDesignSchoolMumbai #BITSDES #DesignEducation #Hiring #VisualDesign #DigitalProductDesign #ExperienceDesign #CareerOpportunities

82 years ago today, on February 22, 1943, a Nazi executioner forced 21-year-old Munich University student Sophie Scholl into a guillotine in Stadelheim Prison and beheaded her, before also beheading her brother, Hans Scholl, and a classmate, Christoph Probst within 10 minutes. Their crime? Distributing leaflets critical of Hitler and the Nazis. To stand by silently, they claimed, was to be complicit in “the most horrible of crimes – crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure.” To do nothing was to truckle to Hitler; and “every word that comes out of Hitler’s mouth is a lie.” White Rose’s third leaflet read, “Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right—or rather, your moral duty—to eliminate this system?” The fourth pamphlet made a promise: “We will not be silent. We are your bad consciences. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.” Sophie was caught tossing extra leaflets into her college atrium by a school maintenance man who called himself a “proud German nationalist." He called the Gestapo who arrested Sophie, Hans, and Christoph. Four days later, they convened a show trial after which they each were summarily beheaded. Sophie's final words were “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” After the war, Sophie and White Rose were lauded as heroes. Streets across Europe were named for her and White Rose. She has been honored in art, city squares, and cinema. And In 2003, she became the fifth woman honored with a bust in Walhalla Temple, the sacred shrine where Germany honors its heroes. Indeed, resistance is never futile, and antifascism is in fact the hallmark of the Pantheon. #NeverForget 🫡