Let the genius burst forth everywhere
More than a century ago, the Philippines national hero Dr. Jose Rizal daydreamed of an Asian Renaissance cultivated by imagination, the arts, human dignity and ingenuity, justice, virtual, compassion, science and ethics. Rizal, in most of his writings, imagined a multi-cultural futures “where the genius could burst forth everywhere” like art and air and cosmopolitan as space.
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
Engaged Foresight co-organizer of the 6th Asia Pacific Futures Network Virtual Conference
Previous APFN conferences were hosted and chaired by the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University Taiwan, The Science and Technology Policy Institute of South Korea, The National Innovation Agency and Change Initiative in Thailand. This year’s gathering will be a full three-day virtual conference. Chaired and hosted by the Philippine Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures), the 6th Asia Pacific Futures
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,
CEF is PhilFutures Co-convenor
The Center for Engaged Foresight as a co-convenor together with the Philippine Society of Public Administrators (PSPA), the Development Academy of the Philippines Graduate School of Public and Development Management (DAP-GSPDM), and the University of the Philippines – National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG) recently launched the Philippine Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures). Dr. Lizan Perante-Calina of DAP and