Engaged Foresight Chief Futurist Prof. Shermon Cruz and PhilFutures President Dr. Lizan Perante Calina were the keynote speakers at this year’s Futures Festival 2020 dubbed as Full Spectrum Futures organized by the Association of Professional Futurists.

Here is the link to the recorded speech Hiraya Foresight: The Case of Democratizing Futures Literacy in the Philippines that explored the questions: How might Filipino futurists and practitioners decolonize and democratize futures literacy knowledge and access in the Philippines? What does a socio-aspirational approach to futures literacy look like? What is the Hiraya Foresight approach? What makes it socio-aspirational? How might we make futures literacy and praxis culturally engaging, authentic, empowering, accessible, radical, meaningful, and impactful? This presentation aims to share the Philippine Futures Thinking Society’s full-spectrum case and story of igniting the Filipino Hiraya (the fruit of one’s aspirations, hopes, and dreams) through the power of foresight.

The keynote accentuated PhilFuture’s socio-aspirational and praxis-driven futures literacy approach at the systems (high-level policy foresight engagements), learning, education, and research (academic, professionals, civic), and community advocacy (youth, health, environment, cultural); shared the case study on how six committed and passionate individuals mobilized, organized community-based, country-wide, and global-wide full-spectrum futures literacy programs and events including their reflections of ways to diversify and make futures literacy education and engagements more inclusive, indigenous and nature-centric. Synopsis of the Hiraya Foresight keynote here.