CEF’s Dreams and Disruptions Game Won the APF IF 2023 Awards!
The Center For Engaged Foresight won the Most Significant Futures Work at the 2023 APF IF Awards for games, inclusive. This recognition is not just an award—it's a testament to the vision, creativity, and passion that went into this project. The 'Dreams and Disruptions Game' stands out as a valuable contribution to the field of foresight, offering a dynamic and inclusive platform
Welcome to Make Our Future Coop!
CEF Chief Futurist Prof. Shermon Cruz is a co-founder of Make Our Future (MOF) Consulting Cooperative based in the United States. Make Our Future is a global consulting cooperative dedicated to transitioning organizations to more sustainable and equitable practices. The mission of MOF is to co-create better futures by transitioning organizations to more sustainable and equitable practices. At MakeOurFuture Cooperative,
Asia Pacific Futures Network Relaunch
The Asia Pacific Futures Network recently had a reboot of the network by launching the APFN 2.0 with a new website, a working committee, and a visionary board. CEF Chief Futurist is a co-founder, chair of the APFN 2020 conference held in Manila, and a member of the APFN working committee. The event also launched the 8th APFN Conference: "Remedies
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
DAP’s Certificate Course on Futures Thinking
Developing the capacity to imagine by “using the future” to create alternatives and preferred futures can be a powerful tool to spark innovation, manage change, and social transformation. Corporate leaders, policymakers, strategic planners, governance experts, academics, advocates, and activists have utilized Futures thinking tools and methods to improvise, experiment, conceptualize and invent ideas and things that do not exist yet to
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,