“Imagine the COP negotiators walking down the corridor towards the negotiation room ….”
Over the past three years I’ve told this story a lot. Sometimes people get it, sometimes people get stuck on clarifying a random detail and sometimes people dismiss it because they can’t find enough past based evidence to understand it.
“Imagine these negotiators see commitments from citizens around the world on screens in the corridor. These citizens are participating in activations in The Pavilion For People: Engagement Forest.”
The story I tell starts to include unusual terms. New language to try to bring to life new ways of behaving. Words we understand separately are matched together to try and inspired new images for action.
Then suddenly the story is out and it’s no longer my story. It’s a conversation that strangers are having And those words people questioned and said I’ve no idea what you mean become inspiration for strangers who say ‘I love the concept of an Engagement Forest’ and now it’s time to write the next chapter of the story.