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What's a "Thought Gym?" What are "Civic Synths?"
At the next IFTF Foresight Talk, 9/1, 9am PT, Professor Helen Maria Nugent, Dean of Design at the California College of the Arts, gives a behind-the-scenes look at her course, Design Research for Speculation.bit.ly/4weppss
Whether you're a designer, educator, or simply curious about the blending of design and futures practices, this conversation is not to be missed! bit.ly/3UhYy0J
In a world where we can't know exactly what's coming, the work is to practice our way toward one we want.
"How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon—Practicing Hope to Prep for the Future with Futurist Bob Johansen and Bishop Andy Doyle."
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#DisciplinesofHopeBook
Special IFTF Foresight Essentials starts Sept 9, scheduled in AEST and NZST. Designed for strategists, innovation leads, policy advisors, and futures practitioners across Australia & New Zealand.
6 sessions, fully online 👉 Register bit.ly/4bF6oHJ
Some of Becky's favorite foresight tools... The Futures Wheel and Headline the Future!
Watch the whole IFTF Foresight Talk here.
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#foresighttalk #strategicforesight #futureswheel #headlinethefuture #foresightpractice
🔭 The future doesn't wait for strategy meetings. Learn to see it coming by building your foresight practice. If your team is still reacting to change instead of anticipating it, it's time to build a different muscle: foresight.
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Join the Sept/Oct Foresight Essential Learners!
Are you a foresight practitioners in the AEST or NZST time zones? This learning experience is offered at special times just for you! Now is the time to register for foresight training on your schedule! bit.ly/4xdo8SQ
Sign up on zoom and join IFTF for a conversation with Becky Cooperman, White Knuckle Futures, about how she successfully integrated foresight as a framework into the board of her neighborhood school. #foresightpractice #foresighttalk bit.ly/3Rrqyy0
Whether you're designing multi-stakeholder foresight processes or curious about what open-source intelligence could look like, this is a rare look at foresight-making where the futurists themselves made the rules. Register for this IFTF Foresight Talk! bit.ly/4ySZ4lV
Today, we wrap up the 2026 IFTF Experiential Futures training!
Thank you to all the learners and participants who collaborated on this experience and designed new artifacts from the future! We can't wait to see the futures you decide to build!
These images are of artifacts from the future designed and installed by IFTF instructors Jake Dunagan and Jacques Barcia for the Telefonica Museum, Madrid. We encourage the learners to share their own projects, and stay connected with us! #experientialfutures #foresightessentials
Announcing IFTF's annual in-person summit Oct 20-21: IFTF Ten-Year Forecast 2036—What We Choose Next! Join us to create a sanctuary for social imagination. If you would like to attend, and haven't already received an email invitation, let us know: bit.ly/4px6xTb
Register for the next IFTF Foresight Talk? IFTF's Jake Dunagan is talking with a few members of the 10F Consortium, Scott Smith, Managing Partner at Changeist; Vaughn Tan, author of The Uncertainty Mindset; & Bernise Ang, Chief Alchemist at Zeroth Labs. bit.ly/4xUJoOy
Come see IFTF at the Future of Us Festival at SFMOMA tomorrow! Registration is optional. Details are here: bit.ly/4wfYCMl
Interested in bridging theory and practice? Next week, the only IFTF Experiential Futures training of 2026 begins! Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen describes how the experience of learning Experiential Futures affected her research and practice. Register bit.ly/3SLas2q
Catch up on the IFTF Foresight Talk: Reimagining the Systems We Inherited - A Call for Cross-Sector Collaboration. buff.ly/nF0rJeY #foresightalk
Are you ready to see yourself in a future that you care about? What is your action roadmap towards the year 2036? Join IFTF at SFMoMA on July 9-10, to explore artifacts from the future and get a snapshot of yourself in 2036. bit.ly/4wfYCMl #futureofus #futureselfie2036
20+ foresight practitioners across a dozen countries produced 10 rigorous, forecasts on the transformation of the global landscape! Join IFTF's Jake Dunagan 7/30, to break them down with the creators. bit.ly/3SjPSGp #foresighttalk #governancefutures #strategicforesight
