Adjacent Possible Playground: Exploring Possibilities

Cards as spiraling inquiry around questions

John Kellden
2 min readDec 31, 2023

Use cards to explore new perspectives and
gain insight around a chosen question.

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Formulate envisioned end game scenarios and
gather around generative center questions

Card: Spirals
Card-play conversations, captured as spirals
around generative center questions, symbolize
the continuous exploration and evolution of
intelligent behavior within a rich landscape
of possibilities.

… pick cards and add your thoughts before,
after, between, around and to the cards …

Card: Preferable Outcomes
The preferable outcomes revolve around
generative exploration, insight generation,
practical applicability, intelligent behavior
evolving with collaborative dynamics, and
knowledge artifacts for future reference.

Cards as iterated adjacent possible affordances

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Adjacent Possible Playground: Cards for Insight
Questions, cards, patterns of play and card-play conversations combine,
unfolding spiraling lines of inquiry around generative center questions, adressing worthwhile dilemmas and capturing thought and insight, evaluated against envisioned end-game scenarios.

Large Finite Set of Cards: Exploring Possibility Spaces
There’s around 500 cards in the source deck, with more than
120k two-card and 21M three-card combinations, exploring
paths through possibility spaces to preferable outcomes.

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John Kellden

Cards catalyzing stories, Conversations that mind and matter, Digital communities and collaborative narratives