IFTF: Future Now

Identify Your Assets and Gaps: A Foresight Tool for Action

Oct 14, 2022 By Ayca K. Guralp

The small, compact city of San Francisco was hosting a large conference. People were flying into the foggy city from all over to attend the event....

IFTF News from the Future #80

Oct 06, 2022

IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | September

Sep 28, 2022

Changing the Register

Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency

Sep 19, 2022

New Insights Analysis From IFTF + Smithsonian Futures Beacons Exhibit Sparks Greater Sense of Hope and Agency...

IFTF News from the Future #79

Sep 08, 2022

Selecting the Right Signals: Don't Ask, "Is It Good;" Ask "What Is It Good For?"

Aug 30, 2022 By Ben Hamamoto

Signals are evidence of the future that we can find in today’s world. They are concrete, compelling observations about how the world is changing that...

Designing an Anticipatory Institution

Aug 26, 2022 By Ilana Lipsett

In December 2020 we spoke with Aarathi Krishnan, when she was months into a new foresight role at the UN Development Program (UNDP). At the time, it...

IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | August

Aug 24, 2022

Public Conversations about Equitable Enterprise

IFTF News from the Future #78

Aug 24, 2022

We’re building a collective cognitive immune system.

IFTF News from the Future #77

Aug 02, 2022

Re-Working the Future Event, Knowledge Mobilization 2030, and IFTF Foresight Essentials training in...

IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | July

Jul 27, 2022

IFTF News From the Future #76

Jul 14, 2022

What Exactly is Futures Thinking?

Jun 28, 2022 By Susanne Forchheimer

As a futurist I often get the question: What really is “futures thinking” and why should I care? ...

IFTF News from the Future #75

Jun 23, 2022

CA 100 MEGA Scenarios

Jun 22, 2022

IFTF Releases “Mega Scenarios Toolkit” To Help Decision Makers Explore Urgent Futures Facing California...

IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | June

Jun 16, 2022

Congratulations, Urgent Optimist founding members!

Jun 13, 2022

Congratulations to everyone who seized the window of opportunity to help build this community from...

Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers

May 27, 2022 By Eileen Alexander

“What if we treated the art of cultivating dignity as an intentional economy? What if dignity was currency and the raw material to make it was...

IFTF News from the Future #74

May 24, 2022

Three Basic Steps to Creating Climate Positive Futures

May 23, 2022 By Quinault Childs

Climate change is one of the most urgent future–and present–issues to consider in any foresight project. It will continue to be a major driver of...

Looking 100 Years Into the Future: Lessons from John Maynard Keynes

May 23, 2022 By Charles Tsai

“We are suffering from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress is over and...