Anchoring Ideas, Expanding Futures
Invitations for what comes next.
These pieces aren’t just projects;
they’re markers of a deeper commitment
to building systems with care, integrity, and imagination.
Each offers a different way in:
a framework, a guide, a reflection.
Together, they chart a path
toward more meaningful, just, and responsible futures.
Ethical Witnessing
in Relational AI
Navigating Socio-Historical Harms with Structural Humility
This essay reimagines AI ethics as a practice of witnessing—centering repair, accountability, and relational presence. Drawing from memory studies, justice-centered design, and Indigenous knowledge systems, it offers a values-rooted path for confronting socio-historical harm in emerging technology.
Inspired by:
From “Little Brown Brother” to Filipino Genocide:
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Philippine-American War’s
Impact on Modern Filipino Colorism by Bea Rodriguez-Fransen
+ Ongoing work in relational AI
Format: Longform Essay • PDF • 30 pages
Usage: Open for citation, educational reuse, and integration into ethics curricula or design dialogues.
Threading Futures
Weaving Relational Worlds for AI in Education
Explores how AI design shapes our cognitive and emotional futures. Advocates for plural, emotionally resonant approaches to education, foresight, and ethical technology.
Inspired by:
FIS 307: Navigating Futures at Arizona State University
Scenarios construction (intuitive logics approach)
+ Ongoing work in relational AI
Format: Visionary Essay • PDF • 38 pages
Usage: Designed to provoke reflection in learning design, AI foresight, and values-based innovation; available for classroom or workshop use with credit
Field Guide to
Ethical AI Co-Design
Practices for Building With, Not Just For
A practice-based guide for co-designing AI with integrity. Shares patterns, tensions, and reflection tools to support collective, care-centered innovation.
Inspired by:
Previous experience co-designing AI tools as a responsible innovator
Format: Practical Guide • PDF Toolkit • 19 pages
Usage: Shareable with educators, technologists, and community designers; use in co-design workshops, training, or responsible tech projects
The Readiness Paradigm
Why Systems Must Change for the Youth Leading Them
Argues that youth readiness is not an individual trait but a relational, systemic condition. Offers a new framework for transforming leadership, inclusion, and support systems.
Inspired by:
Youth perspectives on climate: Preparing for a sustainable future
co-developed by
Capgemini Research Institute + UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited
Format: Research-Backed Essay • PDF • 15 pages
Usage: Ideal for youth leadership initiatives, education policy groups, and systems-change practitioners; open for reuse with attribution
Reclaiming the Purpose of Education in a Fragmented World
A six-part think piece series exploring how we can redesign education as a platform for protection, participation, empathy, and equity in an age of accelerating disruption.
Reflects on the ethical purpose of education in an age of distraction, automation, and rapid change. Makes a case for re-centering relational, wisdom-based learning.
Inspired by:
AI and the Future of Education — Call for Think Pieces (UNESCO)
Format: Reflective Essay • PDF • 23 pages
Usage: Open for citation and sharing across educational design, institutional strategy, and future of learning dialogues; ideal for workshops or reflective discussion prompts
Let’s Keep the Conversation Going!
Whether you’re curious about a collaboration, exploring similar questions,
or simply want to connect, I’d love to hear from you.
Because ideas grow stronger in dialogue.
Feel free to reach out here or connect via LinkedIn
to keep the exchange going.
Matthew Agustin 