This is a special bonus episode of the Quiet Future Podcast, shared while host Kristiina Paju recovers from a cold and is unable to record this week. In this episode, we explore the core philosophy of the Institute of Behavioural Futures and its global research project, Futures We Feel. While traditional foresight often relies on formal forecasts and data, this deep dive shifts the focus to the emotional and behavioural layer of change - the space where abstract strategy meets the reality of lived experience.The discussion covers the concept of "fragments of lived anticipation", exploring how people sense and interpret the future through everyday hopes, anxieties, and emerging behaviours that may not yet appear in official foresight reports. From the personal impact of shifting work security to the weight of climate anxiety, the episode examines how individual feelings like trust, fear, and agency are not just reactions but active forces that shape collective reality. Listeners will learn about the Behavioural Atlas, a crowdsourced intelligence platform designed as a living space for mapping these human signals. The episode highlights how this tool identifies which futures feel believable, desirable, or impossible, ultimately uncovering the insight that futures move through people before they move through systems.

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