Let the genius burst forth everywhere
More than a century ago, the Philippines national hero Dr. Jose Rizal daydreamed of an Asian Renaissance cultivated by imagination, the arts, human dignity and ingenuity, justice, virtual, compassion, science and ethics. Rizal, in most of his writings, imagined a multi-cultural futures “where the genius could burst forth everywhere” like art and air and cosmopolitan as space.
Making the Future More Elastic
Prof. Cruz shares his story and journey of foresight, his point of view on emerging futures practice, his passion for Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), and ways of making communities of futures practice plural, inclusive and diverse.
The Compassionate Code at the University of Sunshine Coast Futures Collective
How do you grow a good AI mindset? How might you embed and evolve a truthful, inclusive, plural AI futures? What if AI can be turbocharged with cognition, imagination, and creativity? How might that look like? What are the alternative AI futures in Asia? CEF Futures Learning Advisor Peachie Valera presents at the USC Futures Collective.
From Engaged Foresight to Hiraya Foresight: Democratizing Futures Literacy in the Philippines at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Global Summit
The Hiraya Foresight booth also featured, front and center, the milestones, current achievements, and ongoing futures literacy work by the DAP-GSPDM Futures Studies Platform, Northwestern University's PhilForesight, and the Philippine Futures Thinking Society. The Hiraya Foresight developed by the collaborators' video outlined and showcased how futures literacy that began in the Philippines in 2012 and the impacts it had at
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.