Foresight brings long-term models for transformation –– and for the multiplicitous purposes that seek social change, thinking towards better futures must include collaborative diversity.

To arrive at shared visions of equity catalytic actions ought to execute, tangibly, today and in the near-term –– at scales suited to sustain meaningful collaboration with incremental growth that the unsustainable forces of the present threaten to outpace.

Social innovations are inherently emergent, and so often are by design executed locally, at tangible scales as learning experiments with trusted communities.

The challenge they face: to contend with systems producing real-time damages across geographies supported by deeply embedded past practices. Potentially impactful transformations are challenged to reach further, and scale beyond locality, to sustain their collectively achieved insights.

BALLOON– suggests the potentiality of our common purpose for sustainability and equity, like any vision, lies in a joyful place - the future, ahead, above, floating…

–FRAME is a reminder that in order to transform the present, we momentarily ground a dream in tangible frameworks possible in the here and now, with the difficulty of pushing ahead through complexity with speed and urgency.

BALLOON–FRAME is here to put them together, together.

I’m here to collaborate with people on frameworks in the here and now –– that are nonetheless lifted by community aspirations and latent with opportunity for sustained uplift, evolution and the expansiveness of adoption, adaptation and knowledge exchange. I’m here for social innovation, design and similar efforts ready to start-up and try-out (trial) balloons as frame(works) - encoded with collectivity, with the multiplicity of envisioned futures made possible here on earth.

Todd Palmer