And so we "gamed" it, played with uncertainty and had a little bit of everything! Creative and experiential questioning, futures thinking and landscape, Schwartz scenario archetypes and causal layered analysis. For two days, the University Center for Research and Development (UCRD) introduced a number of futures research methods, discussed digital research, deconstructed some topics and their alternative futures. The end was to

The Center for Engaged Foresight just embarked on a project to explore possible and plausible futures of the Ilocano language. This initiative seeks to deconstruct and imagine alternative contexts, emergence of the Ilocano language and usage in the year 2040. Using Jim Dator's alternative futures method, it offers to situate the future of Ilocano language usage in a continued economic growth,

I and Risa Jopson facilitated two foresight workshops in Laoag City and Metro Manila recently to explore student perspectives/scenarios on the future of Philippine Higher Education Institutions. Around 30 students/student leaders more or less participated in the focus group discussion cum futures workshop. The students deconstructed and imagined plausible alternative higher education futures using the futures triangle and scenario method. On the

ISSC / 2013 WSSF Travel Grant Awardees for Early Career Social Scientists from the Global South photo © www.planetdirtproject.com Dinner and Waking up in Mont Royal So I arrived in Montreal, had a late dinner snack If I may  and found myself deeply immersed in the exploration of global and regional social sciences futures the next day. Here, I met  a couple of