Korea Global Adaptation Week: Resilience Frontiers 2019
Shermon Cruz, founder and executive director of the Center for Engaged Foresight, will be joining as one of the 7-member facilitation team of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) Resilience Frontiers, a disruptive brainstorming conference on the future of resilience, which will take place at the Songdo Convensia, from 8 to 12 April 2019, in Songdo, South Korea. The event
Transforming Anticipation in the 21st Century
The first and latest book of UNESCO “Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the Twenty-First Century” edited by Riel Miller is out and free for download at Transforming the Future. Shermon Cruz, founder and chief futurist of the Center for Engaged Foresight, and Ace Aceron, education development officer at UNICEF, contributed a case study that explored how the Filipino youth perceives, reframes,
#World Future Day ’19
The Millennium Project and its global network of nodes launched the sixth annual 24-hour conversation around the world, in cooperation with the Association of Professional Futurists, Humanity Plus, World Academy of Art and Science, and the World Futures Studies Federation. Global thought leaders have shared around the world about the future of governing artificial intelligence, inventing future employment, and building space elevators
#UrbanFutures at the Diverse Futures Festival ’18
Urban futures can be worlds apart yet share common approaches to sustainability. Shermon Cruz, Founder, and Director of the Center for Engaged Foresight discuss Global South cities that are vulnerable to natural disasters and the challenge of dealing with complex risks in interconnected systems. Shermon’s session Resurgent Cities from a Global South Perspective The Urban Futures sessions focus on the future of urban