Abstract

On the one hand, strategies regarding climate futures are often regarded in terms of either mitigation, amelioration or adaptation. In all cases a level of control is required. On the other, there is a growing literature within innovation and management – especially that from a creative or designerly perspective – that values the creative power of a lack of control. Given a body of scientific research that attests to the certainty of a damaged future due to the impact of the Anthropocene on the climate – which is positioned in the realm of risk and its management – one wonders: what a more creative approach to the complexity of the whole scenario might bring? That is, what might a more out-of-control, complex or aleatory approach bring? Such an attitude would favour a focus upon the creative power of uncertainty, the complex characterisation of resilience ), and on the imaginary aspects of anticipation. This proposition offers a philosophical encounter with these concepts in order to tease out the ontological concerns that energise them.