Learning / From curiosity to practice

A way to begin.

Not a rulebook. A collection of useful lenses for making ideas more thoughtful, more tangible, and more likely to matter.

02 / A shared way forwardFrom possibility to practice

A little structure.
A lot of possibility.

The Arc helps us find where we are.
GRITS helps us move from here.
Start anywhere. Keep learning.

Fine ridges in overlapping gold and cream butterfly wing scales. Photograph by Fedaro.

wing / a study in possibility

Imagine / The Arc

What future is worth making?

Notice what is changing in nature, technology and everyday life. Imagine how those changes could help people and the planet thrive. Give that possibility a shape others can explore.

GRITS / How we work

Whose future are we imagining, and what would make it worth living in?

Exponential Convergence Three Horizons Futures Cone

The Framework library12 starting points / Original introductory guides

Imagine

Exponential Convergence

Bring an emerging capability and a planetary challenge into the same room.

Three Horizons

See the present, the emerging future and the transition between them.

Futures Cone

Explore several futures without confusing possibility with prediction.

Backcast

Theory of Change

Connect what we do with the change we hope to make.

Doughnut Economics

Ask how a venture can meet human needs within ecological limits.

Jobs To Be Done

Understand the progress people are trying to make.

Build

Lean Canvas

Make a business's important assumptions visible on one page.

Circular Design

Design for the next life of a material, from the very beginning.

The Mom Test

Learn from real behaviour instead of collecting encouraging opinions.

Scale

Unit Economics

Understand what happens financially each time the work reaches someone.

Impact Measurement

Make planetary claims specific, comparable and open to scrutiny.

Pitch Narrative

Help the right people see why this work matters and how they can help.