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
Transforming the Brotherhood
(Here is a summary of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Convention and foresight workshop we had a couple of months ago. A full report will be published in the APOLINAC magazine this year.) 1st APOLINAC National Convention Photo courtesy of Mr. Spider Rodas (2015) What would APOLINAC, as an organization, be like five years from now? What are the disowned and preferred
A Handshake or a Fistfight? The Future of the West Philippine Sea
Credits/Source: Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Department of History, 2014 This month the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) organized its first West Philippine Sea national conference. To explore, discuss and anticipate probable futures, leading Filipino international relations experts, scholars and participants wrestled for two days the past,present and future of Philippine-China maritime dispute in the South China Seas. Around more or
Report on City Futures for City Leaders @ the Journal of Futures Studies
Our report on the City Futures for City Leaders WFSF Learning Lab in Penang Malaysia was published in the Journal of Futures Studies September 2014 edition. JFS website and PDF copy is available here http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/?page_id=5211 and http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/ Here is the preview of the paper. "Cities have emerged as change agents towards sustainable futures. Discussion about its size, food routes, transportation, health, climate