Women in Systems Thinking
Honoring the Work of Women in Systems Thinking
Women in Systems Thinking is a series of dialogues that celebrates the important contributions and work of women in systems thinking, shaping how we think about systems.
Formulated in the spirit of coordination and collaboration, this dialogue series recognizes the crucial contributions of those whose work is more about “being” and “doing” as of equal value to “thinking.”
People of all genders are encouraged to attend.
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Tuesday, September 30th
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Ingrid LaFleur is a futurist, curator, cultural strategist, and thought leader working at the intersection of emerging technologies, race, and decolonization. With over twenty years of experience in curating contemporary art and advancing cultural practice, LaFleur merges foresight methodologies with the cultural movement of Afrofuturism to envision and activate more equitable and just futures.
As the founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute (TASI), LaFleur cultivates futures literacy through a unique combination of speculative design, futures research, and artistic inquiry. Her work emphasizes the decolonization of the imagination as a necessary tool in shaping liberatory futures, particularly for historically marginalized communities. From artificial intelligence to blockchain, she explores how emergent science and technologies can be reimagined through culturally specific, justice-oriented lenses.
LaFleur is a sought-after speaker and facilitator, having presented talks and led workshops at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), TEDx Brooklyn, Harvard University, and Oxford University. Her pioneering work has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, and NPR.
She holds a Master of Science in Foresight from the University of Houston and continues to develop methodologies that integrate curatorial practice with strategic foresight and Afrofuturist theory.
Decolonizing Futures - Creating a Personal Practice, with Ingrid LaFleur
Re-Imagining Our Lives in a Post-Finance World, with Janelle Orsi
What will it take to turn our economic system into a life-sustaining one? In this session, Janelle Orsi of the Sustainable Economies Law Center gives us her insights on what it’ll take to transform our economies. Plus, Janelle shares how her relationships with finance, work, and land radically shifted through systems thinking. If you think you’ve heard “out of the box,” think again!
Watch our 2024 Dialogues
Overcoming Barriers to Meaningful Conversations: ConversationLabs and Systems Mapping, with Jane Lorand
Why is meaningful conversation so rare? How did we get here? Jane Lorand guides us through a new, structured way to deepen interactions: coherence mapping. It requires that we focus on relationships and confront the truth that everything is symbiotically related to everything else. In this session, we face our fear of controversy so we no longer default to spectatorship, helping create more meaningful conversations with those around us.
Paradigm Shifts in Economics, Governance and Knowledge Systems for Systems Change, with Ashley Hodgson
Meaningful dialogue across differences is more important than ever. But, new digital tools seem to be eroding our ability to understand people who think differently from us. How can we use these digital tools for positive change? Can they help us shift paradigms in economic, governance, and knowledge systems? In this session, economist Ashley Hodgson explores the role of digital tools in fostering healthy dialogues for systems changes.
