Acknowledging the unknowability of the future, Rizal would write in 1889 as he explored several future questions about the country’s future “it is impossible to reply to all of these questions as both yes or no may be answered.” The future for Rizal is above material considerations and there were emerging others, the invisible influencers, and ethical considerations that may likely influence the future of the country.

The Center for Engaged Foresight, Northwestern University, DAP GSPDM, and the Philippine Futures Thinking Society collaborate to present more than a century of foresight and futures literacy awareness. education and advocacy in the Philippines at the 2020 UNESCO FL Global Summit. It embarks from Jose Rizal’s book The Philippines A Century Hence to the 1970s Manila folks organizing futurology and futurism events to the WFSF Bacolod Conference to the birth of the Engaged Foresight Center in 2012 and PhilForesight at Northwestern University in 2015 and now the emergence of the Senate Committee on SDGs, Innovation and Futures Thinking in 2018, the Development Academy of the Philippines Futures Studies Platform in 2019 and the Philippine Futures Thinking Society in 2020.

Here is the “from engaged foresight to Hiraya foresight video” link presented at the UNESCO FL Summit and the futures literacy event at the PhilFutures Fiesta of Imagination.