From Engaged Foresight to Hiraya Foresight: Democratizing Futures Literacy in the Philippines at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Global Summit
The Hiraya Foresight booth also featured, front and center, the milestones, current achievements, and ongoing futures literacy work by the DAP-GSPDM Futures Studies Platform, Northwestern University's PhilForesight, and the Philippine Futures Thinking Society. The Hiraya Foresight developed by the collaborators' video outlined and showcased how futures literacy that began in the Philippines in 2012 and the impacts it had at
Navigate, Sail, Plan Boot Camp 2020
Using a post-normal lens, Shermon emphasized that foresight could provide a platform for people, communities, and organizations to explore through a collective intelligence process multiple and diverse possibilities and risks i.e. worse, weird, preferable, and emergent futures.
Millennium Project Philippines Launch
The Philippine Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures), the first and only professional futurists, futures scholars, and practitioners’ organization in the country envisions igniting the Filipino Hiraya (meaning the fruit of one’s hopes, dreams and aspirations. It also means imagination and vision) through the power of foresight. Its mission is to advance and democratize Futures thinking in the Philippines through impact foresight education,
CEF’s Welcome to the Future Premier
Welcome to the Future! The Center for Engaged Foresight’s futures literacy teaser premiered this month and is now on Youtube. The Center for Engaged Foresight is a premier global futures literacy and strategic foresight innovation hub. Established to advance a spectrum of Futures strategies and methodologies, we aim to intensify the aptitude of persons, communities, organizations, institutions, and society’s capacity to anticipate, innovate
What is Futures Thinking? Why Futures Literacy?
Futures thinking is not about crystal ball gazing or prophesizing to predict the future but rather it is a transdisciplinary or meta-approach to studying possible, probable, and preferable futures. Futures thinking is a rational, creative, reflective, and contemplative process of engaging citizens to be aware of and question their ways of knowing the future to create contingencies, alternatives, and strategies to
Cambodia’s A na kuth 2050
A na kuth, which means future in Khmer, was the focus of the three-day Integrative Futures Literacy and Strategic Visioning Workshop for Cambodia Youth Vision 2050 attended by 21 youth leaders from all over the country. The workshop was conducted at the United Nations Development Program office in Phnom Penh. The future is good, in fact blissful, according to the youth