This field guide offers ideas, practices, and entry points to design dialogues that expand the modes of collective sensing, learning and decision-making used to deal with the complexity of the challenges reflected in the Human Development Report 2021/2022: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World (2021/22 HDR).

The 2021/22 HDR advances a new uncertainty complex: a world in which we not only face new risks and sources of human insecurity, but one in which “novel layers of uncertainties are interacting to create new kinds of uncertainty.”i From destabilized planetary systems in the Anthropocene, to the spread of political polarization and societal fractions, to the sweeping societal transformations needed to transition to a stable climate regime, the convergence of these realities compels new development models, knowledge frameworks, and risk management approaches.