Contemplations & Provocations
Essays on consequential moments, design, narrative, experience—and the futures organizations are trying to bring into being.
Drawn from practice, observation and inquiry, these are reflections on the questions that emerge between imagining and making.
Written by Marie Fe Isla Rae
Latest Series:
What Becomes Valuable Now?
Six contemplations (and provocations) on AI, abundance, advantage—and the challenges that arise when more becomes possible.
Flagship Essays
Foundational ideas shaping how I understand consequential work—and the practice emerging from it.
Field Essays
Reflections emerging from practice, observation and encounter—where ideas meet the lived realities of institutions, culture and public life.
What Becomes Valuable Now?
Six contemplations on AI, abundance, advantage—and what becomes harder when more becomes possible.
AI is making extraordinary capabilities increasingly accessible: building, writing, analyzing, researching, prototyping, generating. Much of the conversation understandably asks what this makes easier.
I became curious about the other side of the question.
When capabilities that were once difficult, expensive or scarce become widely available, what changes around them? What becomes more valuable? What becomes harder to distinguish, preserve or develop? And what happens to the human and organizational capabilities that sit behind the things we make?
This series began in a room of founders, funders and builders in Vancouver, during a conversation about how AI is changing the way companies are built and funded. I came from a rather different professional world—institutions, philanthropy, design and organizational change—and found myself carrying questions from that room back into my own.
Advisory Thesis:
Re-Architecting Civic Traditions: From Legacy Event to Cultural Asset
Exploring how legacy civic events — often beloved yet financially fragile — can evolve into resilient cultural platforms that continue to serve their cities in changing economic conditions. A six-part series.
Marie Fe del Rosario
Principal, Creative Strategy & Experience
Designing experiential moments where the future becomes tangible.
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Field notes on consequential moments, creative strategy, experience, narrative, design—and the work of making possible futures tangible.
For people interested in what happens between imagining and making.