Building from Episode 2's exploration into the Agent and Arena relationship. This time round we focus in on the Arena looking at the forces that have influenced and continue to influence it today. It's useful to think of this episode and having two parts to it that are connected by the theme - legacy mindsets - the ways of thinking and perceiving the world that we carry with us from the past. Date recordedOct 29th 2020Timestamps Part 1 Previous episode recap

Why play a role in the arena?

Extracting ourselves out of our previous arenas

The consequences of the industrial arena

Metricization, education and Tolkein’s mythology

The education system and industrial thinking

Preparing for a radically different world

Imagination, the mechanisation of war and the importance of storytelling

Unintended consequences of the arena and the importance of play in learning

Play, imagination and creativity and their importance in the emerging arena

Part 2 The evolution of the industrial arena

Automation, meaning in work and why metricisation has been so effective

The tyranny of metrics, the sclerosis of bureaucracy

The end game of metrics. Moving towards values as organising principles

Industrial thinking vs holding a multi-perspectival view during COVID

Sensing and responding to change

Anti-fragility and moving beyond event-based transactions

The current institutional framing for seeing agents

Autonomy, sovereignty and participation

Questions to ask ourselves from the conversation