City Futures Learning Lab Vigan!
Many are worried that our concepts of resilience, city planning and urban regeneration are very male oriented and city futures worldviews patriarchal. So what would Philippine cities look like if they were designed by women? Will we have massive towers and bridges or will we have more sites or spaces and priorities that are child friendly, safe for mother and
Introducing the Philippine Center for Foresight Education and Innovation Research Northwestern University (PhilForesight)
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer remains" Eric Hoffler, Philosopher (extracted from UNESCO's How Do We Identify Great Opportunities? A Reflective report, 2015) Welcome to the Future! To paraphrase a brainy quote from the great Yogi Berra, the future isn't what
Alternative Futures of Global Governance: scenarios and perspectives from the Global South
My paper on the future of global governance published by Emerald Foresight is out! Download your copy @ http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/FS-05-2014-0030 and http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/fs/17/2 This paper highlights the emerging roles and perspectives of the Global South in global governance. It identifies some “trading zones” and “emerging issues” that may inspire actors to create new global governance spaces, innovate alternative narratives and design new frameworks of
Transforming Philippine Cities: An Integrative Foresight Course for Women City Leaders
Many are worried that our concepts of resilience, city planning and urban regeneration are very male oriented and societal, city futures worldviews are patriarchal. So what would Philippine cities be like if they were designed by women? Will we have massive towers and bridges or will we have more sites or spaces and priorities that are child friendly, safe for
The Causal Layered Analysis 2.0 is here!
Causal Layered Analysis 2.0 at the surface offers academics, culturalcreatives, civil society leaders, political analysts, corporateexecutives and government decision-makers alternative and innovativeways of dissecting and recreating STEEP plus culture and valuesphenomena. The 2.0 provides more than a dozen of anticipatory action learningcases and insights on how CLA, as a theory and method, could enrichand transform our ways of knowing (the self
Futures with an Asian Flavour: The 1st Asia Pacific Futures Network Conference
CREATING AN ASIA-PACIFIC NETWORK Representatives from a number of nations - Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Iran, the Philippines, and Taiwan - met from March 19-20th at Tamkang University, Tamsui to partner and co-create an Asia-Pacific Foresight Network. Many of the participants were futurists working in their respective Prime Minister's Office and others were academics working at universities. Participants expressed a need to