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Futurist in Residence
Discovery Research
Critical Design

Strategic design and discovery research for preferable futures

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Updated 30.03.25

I specialize in running interventions that require oscillating between individual issues and broader societal challenges at higher levels of complexity.

My work ranges from sense-making and rapid ethnographic deep dives to rich future scenarios and mapping innovation tracks.

I have a reputation for uncovering structural issues, framing paradigms and asking new and relevant questions that open up space for change-making.

I am currently exploring globally diverse, multi-layered systems that ensure the availability, circulation and security of cash, with a particular emphasis on understanding the social dynamics that underpin its use and value.

Since 2010, I’ve been experimenting with generative arts, exploring how AI can enhance creativity, knowledge work, future thinking and discovery research in strategic design.

This is my augmented unlearning journey. My slow-motion blog is here. I am writing a Codex to help designers drive more impact. I am also documenting my strategic design system Wangjitsu. You can see my explorations with AI and images over here.

You can connect with me using my contact page form, by scheduling a call or following me on social media.

Pascal Wicht

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A floating signifier in a dead field

27th April 2025
Spiritual intelligence has become a floating signifier — a tactical posture of perceptual superiority circulating within dead symbolic fields, where existential destabilization is displaced into interface optimization, aestheticized as transcendence but structurally hollow.
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The anchoring before the future

24th April 2025
What if your strategies aren’t outdated, but misaligned with a present you haven’t yet located? The Bureau argues we must re-enter now — structurally, not speculatively — before any future becomes thinkable.
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Between climate worlds

20th April 2025
To age into the Anthropocene is to inhabit a split — between memory and condition, instinct and emergence. We do not suffer change. We suffer miscalibration. Legacy logics meet nonlinear worlds. What frays is not just climate, but orientation itself.
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Preferable futures

1st April 2025
Preferable futures aren’t about prediction—they’re about orientation. In a world of uncertainty, they help us ask what should be protected, who is included and what must be refused. They don’t offer answers, but open space to imagine otherwise and move with purpose.
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Whispers & Giants
A project by Pascal Wicht
2018 – 2025
Switzerland