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IFTF News from the Future #80
Oct 06, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | September
Sep 28, 2022
Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
Sep 19, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #79
Sep 08, 2022
Designing an Anticipatory Institution
Aug 26, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | August
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #78
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #77
Aug 02, 2022
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
IFTF News from the Future #75
Jun 23, 2022
CA 100 MEGA Scenarios
Jun 22, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | June
Jun 16, 2022
Congratulations, Urgent Optimist founding members!
Jun 13, 2022
Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
May 27, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #74
May 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #73
May 19, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Initiative Newsletter #6
Apr 29, 2022
How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
Apr 21, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #72
Apr 07, 2022
New Course: Designing Sustainable Futures
Mar 30, 2022
How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
Mar 28, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #71
Mar 24, 2022
News From the Future #70
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News From the Future #69
Feb 17, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #68
Jan 26, 2022
News from the Future #67
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Charles Tsai lives in Vancouver, and brings his deep experience in philanthropy to IFTF—a field that he believes is due for some big, structural...
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She brings to IFTF her expertise in critical analysis and social impact, particularly around mitigating economic, gender, and racial...
Leah Zaidi has lived in Canada since the age of six, and brings to IFTF her extensive expertise in marketing, foresight...
*The following is a guest post by Mark Bryan, an alumnus of IFTF Foresight Essentials....
*Spoiler alert: The following contains spoilers regarding the book Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)....
Read about the initiative. Meet the advisors. Scan the signals.
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Announcing IFTF's Equitable Enterprise Initiative, plus the rest of the newsletter you love.
The process of creating forecasts, especially scenario-based forecasts, is simultaneously creative and structured. On the one hand, you want the...
Foresight professionals typically don’t use scenarios as stand-alone forecasts. In most cases, we use scenarios as a way to give some emotional or...
Demetrius Wren is a filmmaker, musician, and storyteller based in Los Angeles. He has told stories in the form of award winning documentaries, feature...
Signals gathering lies at the heart of every good futures practice.And the more diverse the community, the better the signals. ...
I wrote my first scenario about 30 years ago. I was in graduate school at the time, studying International Politics at UC Berkeley. As part of a...
In my years as a community engagement practitioner and participatory designer, I learned that the process of participating in the design of something...
IFTF Partners with California 100 & Research Centers Across the State to Examine the Future of...
Signals and drivers are two pillars of foresight practice at IFTF, yet many workshop attendees struggle to fully understand the two concepts and how...
Moving towards an equitable future: 2021, Pride, and Juneteenth!
I have found that those of us who have the privilege of spending our days thinking about the future tend to have a complex relationship with the title...