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  • RESOURCE: Transforming the Future Anticipation in the 21st Century

    “This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice of anticipation around the world today. It uses the concept of ‘Futures Literacy’ as a tool to define the understanding of anticipatory sustems and processes…” https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781351048002/transforming-future-riel-miller

  • Re-Imagine the future

    “From flying cars to lab-grown food, we love thinking about what delights the future will bring. But futurist Angela Oguntala suggests that, in fact, these pop-culture benchmarks create a blinkered vision of the future. In her talk, Oguntala urges us to reach further and push for true innovation. – TEDXCopenhagen https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_oguntala_re_imagine_the_future/up-next

  • Projection Mapping

    “Projection Mapping uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting on a flat screen (e.g. to display a PowerPoint), light is mapped onto any surface, turning common objects of any 3D shape into interactive displays. More formally, projection mapping is “the display of an image on a non-flat or non-white surface”. _PMC (Now Lightform) http://projection-mapping.org/what-is-projection-mapping/ http://projection-mapping.org/the-history-of-projection-mapping/  More from…

  • Now is the best time to embrace the futures: SDGs success depends on strategic foresight

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are now underway and UN country teams face the huge task of implementing them. So, who will get the best outcomes by 2030? My money is on countries that use strategic foresight. This blog will explain why, and how. https://unsdg.un.org/latest/blog/now-best-time-embrace-futures-sdgs-success-depends-strategic-foresight

  • Kernel Festival 2021

    Since 2011 Kernel has been promoting technological experiments and artistic expressions that involve the public in new and immersive experiences capable of enhancing urban places of symbolic, artistic and cultural value. Kernel creates opportunities for internationally known artists and young talents called to interact in the interpretation of the public space with their artistic visions.…

  • International Light Festivals Organization

    ILO, international Light Festivals Organization, is a worldwide network of public light festivals, public light events and light art experts. It is an alliance of light festivals and experts sharing expertise, inspiration and information on an international level, encouraging networking and exchange of knowledge, experience and information and creating a platform for co-production, research and…

  • Imagining the future is just another form of memory

    “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia, because humans predict what the future will be like by using their memories. This is how things you do over and over again become routine. For example, you know generally what your day will be like at the office tomorrow based on what your day at the…

  • How can science fiction predict the future?

    “Would you like to know what’s in our future? What’s going to happen to humanity tomorrow, next year, or even a millennium from now? Well, you’re not alone. Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people – called ‘futurists’ – who attempt to forecast the future. Roey…

  • Futuring Peace

    “Futuring Peace” is an effort of the UN DPPA Innovation Cell to encourage interdisciplinary approaches such as futures thinking and speculative design and their practical limits to peace processes in a world of increasing complexity, to better prepare the United Nations for the “unknown unknowns” and global systemic shocks such as COVID-19. This website serves…

  • Futures Thinking : A Mind set- not a Method

    “Design practices are becoming increasingly future-focussed, reflecting the complexities of the design challenges that we face. Futures thinking can offer us tools and methods to help with this, but more than that, it might offer us a new way of seeing the world that we design for.” – Zoe Prosser & Santini Basra https://medium.com/touchpoint/futures-thinking-a-mind-set-not-a-method-64c9b5f9da37

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