IFTF: Future Now

How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action

Apr 21, 2022 By Daria Lamb

If you've taken IFTF’s Foresight Essentials training, you have encountered this image showing the cycle of Prepare, Foresight, Insight, and Action. It...

IFTF News from the Future #72

Apr 07, 2022

New Course: Designing Sustainable Futures

Mar 30, 2022

OCT 7-DEC 12 2022. A new IFTF 8-week course developed in partnership with Politecnico di Milano's...

Scenarios of University in 2035: A Transformation Towards Individualization

Mar 28, 2022 By Melisa Celebi, Nathalie Fischer, and Johanna Weitbrecht, students at Stuttgart Media University

To address the future of your own university when one is still a student is a unique opportunity to change the existing structures according to one's...

How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics

Mar 28, 2022 By Wayne Pan

If you’ve done any amount of futures work you’ve inevitably had experiences with skeptics. The doubt can come in the form of snide comments about...

IFTF News From the Future #71

Mar 24, 2022

OCCRP co-founders and IFTF Fellows do their part for Ukraine with the Russian Asset Tracker.

IFTF's Equitable Enterprise Initiative Newsletter: Issue #5

Mar 23, 2022

IFTF Welcomes Seven New Future for Good Fellows!

News From the Future #70

Mar 10, 2022

At IFTF, we remain dedicated to creating safe spaces for people to dream and imagine how we can build a better, more humane, and equitable world....

Urgent Optimist Is

Mar 01, 2022

Urgent Optimists is Institute for the Future's first individual membership program.

How I Became a Futurist: Foresight Practitioner Origin Stories

Feb 24, 2022 By Mark Frauenfelder

“Growing up, it was never a dream of mine to become a futurist,” says Susanne Forchheimer, a Research Manager at IFTF. “I didn’t even know it existed...

News From the Future #69

Feb 17, 2022

Become an Urgent Optimist!

The Great Imagination: A Futures Exhibit with an Urgent Message

Jan 28, 2022 By Ayca K. Guralp

Think of the last time you visited a museum. What kind of experience was it for you? Did it lead you to interrogate ideas we hold of the past,...

Rise of the PriestBots: Innovation at the Edge of Faith and Meaning in the Church

Jan 27, 2022 By Lyn Jeffery

The Reverend Lorenzo Lebrija is the founding director of TryTank, a laboratory for innovation in the Church (particularly the Episcopal church) and an...