The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) in collaboration with Think City, the Right Livelihood College and the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies Tamkang University and UNESCO will hold a city future for city leaders futures course on March 30 to April 1, this year at the Cititel George Town Penang Malaysia. This workshop aims to familiarize participants with futures studies and

The latest Journal of Futures Studies (JFS) is out and happy to see my paper exploring the futures of the Panatag shoal published  in the Manoa School special edition. The Panatag shoal paper abstract here: Leading scholars of international relations argued that the West Philippine Sea dispute (South China Sea) was a tinderbox waiting to happen. Many analysts fear that the dispute

And so we "gamed" it, played with uncertainty and had a little bit of everything! Creative and experiential questioning, futures thinking and landscape, Schwartz scenario archetypes and causal layered analysis. For two days, the University Center for Research and Development (UCRD) introduced a number of futures research methods, discussed digital research, deconstructed some topics and their alternative futures. The end was to

The Center for Engaged Foresight just embarked on a project to explore possible and plausible futures of the Ilocano language. This initiative seeks to deconstruct and imagine alternative contexts, emergence of the Ilocano language and usage in the year 2040. Using Jim Dator's alternative futures method, it offers to situate the future of Ilocano language usage in a continued economic growth,