Reframing the Futures of Smart Cities in a Post-Pandemic World
The “Smart Cities” movement, an intellectual activity focused on better-employing technology into city operations while cutting operational costs and simultaneously improving citizen satisfaction, failed to achieve expectations set by industry in the early 2000s.By 2020, many industry leaders believed that the movement was almost overcome due to “death by 1000 pilots.” Then came Covid-19.
Hiraya Foresight at the APF Futures Festival 2020
Engaged Foresight Chief Futurist Prof. Shermon Cruz and PhilFutures President Dr. Lizan Perante Calina were one of the keynote speakers at this year's Futures Festival 2020 dubbed as Full Spectrum Futures organized by the Association of Professional Futurists.
Dreams and Disruptions for Edinburgh Futurists
The Center for Engaged Foresight crew will be putting on a game for Edinburgh Futurists next Saturday on November 7, 2020.Dreams and Disruptions is a scenario-building card game that uses time horizons, drivers of change, leadership, and movements, as well as disruptors to create a stress-tested, anti-fragile vision of the future.
Engaged Foresight co-organizer of the 6th Asia Pacific Futures Network Virtual Conference
Previous APFN conferences were hosted and chaired by the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University Taiwan, The Science and Technology Policy Institute of South Korea, The National Innovation Agency and Change Initiative in Thailand. This year’s gathering will be a full three-day virtual conference. Chaired and hosted by the Philippine Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures), the 6th Asia Pacific Futures