Millennium Project Philippines Launch
Join us on August 15, 2020, 9:00-11:00 AM as PhilFutures collaborates with the Millennium Project to launch the 64th Millennium Project Node in the Philippines. Millennium Project Philippines connects think tanks of futurists, scholars, business planners, decision-makers, experts, and policymakers to build the country’s foresight capacity to improve the prospects of building a better future. The Millennium Project is a global
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’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
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
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