Source: Photo series I – DDT in Brussels https://ddtconference.org/2017/07/24/photo-series-i-ddt-in-brussels/ “May your futures always be preferred!”- John Sweeney (his informal toast on last day’s party) The Centre of Expertise Applied Futures Research|Open Time of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel and M HKA co-designed a 3-day Futures conference that is not only collaborative, but interactive and creative as well. Partners in the DDT are: The Association of Professional

Call for papers and other contributions The centre of expertise Applied Futures Research - Open Time of the Erasmus University College in Brussels and M HKA (Museum for Contemporary Art Antwerp) are collaborating on an exceptional three day conference linked to the 2017 summer exhibition ‘A Temporary Futures Institute’. We will host academic and professional futurists from the global North and South as

How can Futures studies in Asia be different from Western offerings? How can it be localized in native languages, ways of knowing, and experiences? Can Asian futures, if such a thing exists, address emerging challenges, raise new questions, and disrupt systems of knowledge and power as they currently exist? What capacities exist to create and enhance futures thinking? How can

The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) just launched a brand-new global, digital, interactive, online magazine - Human Futures! The WFSF magazine in its first re-launched edition featured the work of young and emerging futurist and shared the far-reaching impact of their work. Shermon Cruz was featured and wrote a short piece on the WFSF Women City Futures Learning Lab project

UNESCO Bangkok took part in the MVP Future Thought Leaders Summit held on 13-16 November 2016 at the First Pacific Leadership Academy (FPLA) in Antipolo City, Rizal, Philippines. The Summit was organized as a Corporate Social Responsibility project by the Executive Education department of FPLA. Its goal was to reach out to “underprivileged” student leaders from all over the Philippines

Climate Reality Leadership Training Philippines facilitated by Nobel Prize Recipient Al Gore, 2016, Photo courtesy of Climate Reality Project www.climatereality.org A Decade of Environmental Activism: From 2005 to 2012  A decade ago I was one of the many who got inspired from Al Gore's seminal presentation and movie "An Inconvenient Truth". The learnings I got from this would in many ways shape my