Amid all the hype around the 15-minute-city of sustainable, walkable neighbourhoods, the pandemic has accelerated another kind of 15-minute-city, where everything can be delivered almost instantly to your door. This…
First published in “After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock and Look Ahead to the Next 50” by John August Media 2/4/2020. Who makes…
Another fascinating signal on non-human life intelligence. “The ability to delay gratification demonstrates cognitive abilities such as future planning” imagine including beyond human intelligence in futures planning!
We need to understand change to create change. So how does change happen? What does it take for a change process to start? Rodrigo Bautista, Principal Change Designer at Forum…
Futures strategy tools is our brand new directory of top resources to start you on your futures thinking journey in 2021. How can futures thinking help in 2021? Year 2020…
Are you interested in starting (or advancing) your futures journey? Here’s our pick of futures strategy resources to build your capacity for futures practice, including: – top three futures reads…
Aarathi Krishnan, Strategy and Foresight Advisor for UNDP, reflects on our collective learnings and unlearnings of 2020 and discusses the paradigm shift still required to help us move from proclamations…
This article outlines a comparison/overview of the trajectories from COVID-19 created by Forum for the Future – highlighting their respective characteristics, similarities and differences. The COVID-19 pandemic is not just…
At the start of this year, we thought this would be the year of another climate COP, another year of rising carbon emissions, unheeded warnings, quiet despair at business as…
James Goodman explores the benefits of community-led ‘futuring’ as a “starting reconfiguration” of the way things work.
Read the 2019 report to explore seven global trends set to shape sustainability in the 2020s.
Forum for the Future’s Future Plates project has created four possible futures to explore what your meal might be like in 2040. Each takes a different approach to what’s important for both you and the food system. So, if the future of the planet and our food was in your hands, which would you choose?
