Shermon Cruz, founder and executive director of the Center for Engaged Foresight, will be joining as one of the 7-member facilitation team of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) Resilience Frontiers, a disruptive brainstorming conference on the future of resilience, which will take place at the Songdo Convensia, from 8 to 12 April 2019, in Songdo, South Korea. The event

The first and latest book of UNESCO “Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the Twenty-First Century” edited by Riel Miller is out and free for download at  Transforming the Future. Shermon Cruz, founder and chief futurist of the Center for Engaged Foresight, and Ace Aceron, education development officer at UNICEF, contributed a case study that explored how the Filipino youth perceives, reframes,

The Millennium Project and its global network of nodes launched the sixth annual 24-hour conversation around the world, in cooperation with the Association of Professional Futurists, Humanity Plus, World Academy of Art and Science, and the World Futures Studies Federation. Global thought leaders have shared around the world about the future of governing artificial intelligence, inventing future employment, and building space elevators

Urban futures can be worlds apart yet share common approaches to sustainability. Shermon Cruz, Founder, and Director of the Center for Engaged Foresight discuss Global South cities that are vulnerable to natural disasters and the challenge of dealing with complex risks in interconnected systems. Shermon’s session Resurgent Cities from a Global South Perspective The Urban Futures sessions focus on the future of urban

What is Futures Literacy? What is Futures Thinking? What makes a futures literate person? How can we use the future in different ways? How do we make sense of it or “use the future” to change the conditions of change and transform the way we perceive and imagine child and adolescent futures? What are the products or possible outcomes or

Futures Literacy with UNESCO Bangkok for Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union (LYU) held at the LYU’s headquarters in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR. “If you want to change or transform world, you have to ask better questions” UNESCO Bangkok in partnership with the Center for Engaged Foresight organized a workshop on Data Analysis and Youth Policy Development in LAO PDR. The Futures Literacy