Between: a fieldnote on moving from futures and foresight to effective action (and back again)

This chapter explores ways of inhabiting, influencing, and orchestrating change in the meanwhile times and places of the second horizon - that horizon that leans forward in between past and present, in between projects, in between places, in between people. Placing change is more inhabited as a way of approaching it than making space(s) for change. It is that placing change in the meanwhile places between now and next that is the main focus of this chapter, together with ideas of betweenness and withness as essential qualities of those places. Through the chapter, the character of the second horizon is refracted through the lens of four illustrations which explore: form, function and folk memory in producing guidance for policymakers; meeting in symbiotic association to scan the horizons of cultures of life; the numinous presence of the materials, and the poets reporting on the emerging bio age; and choreographing flow and transition in an extended meeting on translating between policy and practice. The chapter concludes by drawing together threads of insight into liminal leadership around: leading in between; interdisciplinarity on equal terms; strengthening a storied approach; and threading together a portal infrastructure to provide just enough stability in the second horizon to invite people in and through.