Developing the capacity to imagine by “using the future” to create alternatives and preferred futures can be a powerful tool to spark innovation, manage change, and social transformation. Corporate leaders, policymakers, strategic planners, governance experts, academics, advocates, and activists have utilized Futures thinking tools and methods to improvise, experiment, conceptualize and invent ideas and things that do not exist yet to

Futures thinking is not about crystal ball gazing or prophesizing to predict the future but rather it is a transdisciplinary or meta-approach to studying possible, probable, and preferable futures. Futures thinking is a rational, creative, reflective, and contemplative process of engaging citizens to be aware of and question their ways of knowing the future to create contingencies, alternatives, and strategies to