futures thinking

Drs. Clarin Collins and Sean Leahy have a very engaging conversation with Dr. Ruth Wylie, Dr. Danah Henriksen, and Maricel Lawrence about Futures Thinking. Each panelist discusses how they engage in different types of futures thinking and give tips for others to become engaged in this work. They also discuss how topics such as creativity, play, and wellness integrate with futures thinking.

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Clarin Collins, Sean Leahy, Ruth Wylie, Danah Henriksen, and Maricel Lawrence discuss Futures Thinking and how that may look throughout our working spaces and how it affects the decisions we make regarding education. Our guests engage in a round table discussion on how we might look at our futures, the different categories of futures that exist and many more interesting points. 

(6:40)- What is Futures Thinking (FT)? What do we mean when we say that? 

(14:19)- Maricel´s choice of ASU´s PhD program, why did she choose it? Imagining new universities. 

(20:17)- Defining the different possible ¨futures¨.

(25:00)- Categorizing the different kinds of futures.  

(26:46) & (50:58) -How to get people thinking about Futures Thinking. How to create a ¨Futures Mindset¨?

(33:07)- Futures Thinking as a method to spark creativity in people. 

(41:29)- What is the role of Futures Thinking in the education system?

(53:28)- Uncertainty and its relation to Futures Thinking.

You can learn more about our guest´s work by visiting the following links: Ruth Wylie, Danah Henriksen, and Maricel Lawrence. 

If you are in the DC area, you can checkout the Smithsonian exhibit mentioned by Ruth: Smithsonian Institute Futures exhibition.

The Learning Futures Podcast is produced at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Executive Producer is Dr. Sean Leahy, the show is produced by Dr. Clarin Collins and Karina Muñoz Baltazar.

In this episode - Sean and Punya are joined by guest co-host Iveta Silova to talk with prominent futures scholar Keri Facer to discuss Futures education, futures literacy vs futures literacies, futures thinking, and cultivating a 'temporal imagination'. 

In our conversation we learn about Keri's own academic and professional journey, and how studying the learning space of children became synonymous with studying the future. We discuss a recent publication from Arathi Sriprakash and Keri Facer on the pedagogic imperative to 'teach the future' in modern schools and the opportunities and challenges exist, and explore the importance of the differences between futures literacy and futures literacies.

Guest Information: 

Keri Facer – Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, Visiting Professor in Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Gothenburg and August T Larsson Guest Professor at SLU, Sweden. Her work focuses specifically on cultivating the ‘temporal imagination’ – the capacity to work critically with ideas of time, rhythm, pasts and futures to open up possibilities for individual and collective agency - in conditions of environmental and technological change.

Iveta Silova – Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She teaches graduate courses in comparative and international education, education policy and evaluation, research design, and post/decolonial approaches to education research. 

Links & Resources: 

• Learning Futures Collaborative: Education, sustainability, and global futures
• Futurelab, former UK educational research organization
• Futures journal [publisher link]
• Jungk and Muellert’s future workshops [actioncatologue.eu link]
• Futures Literacy [UNESCO link]
• Coldwarchildhoods.org, Iveta’s work on childhood memories
• Chen, K (2010). Asia As Method:Toward Deimperialization. Duke University Press. [publisher link]
• Teach the Future
• World Futures Study Federation
• Sardar, Z. & Sweeney, J. (2015). The Three Tomorrows of Postnormal Times. Futures 75 (2016) 1–13. [article link]
• Turn It Around!, socially engaged art
• Ana Dinerstein’s ‘The Art of Organizing Hope’ [video link]
• Tsing, A., Bubandt, N., Gan, E., & Swanson, H. (2017). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. U of Minnesota Press. [publisher link]
• The Ecoversities Network
• Facer, K & Sriprakash, A. (2021). Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification. Futures, Volume 133, October 2021. [pdf link]
• Punya and Iveta’s past work together: https://punyamishra.com/2022/11/17/speculative-fiction-and-the-future-of-learning/
• Keri Facer (2011) Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change, London: Routledge
• Facer, K (2022) The University and the Social Imagination, CGHE Working Paper
  • In this background paper for the UNESCO Futures of Education Commission,  I talk about five different ways of doing ‘futures’ in education – and the ethical choices these raise: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375792.locale=en
• Black Mountains College - https://blackmountainscollege.uk/
• The Ecoversities Network - https://ecoversities.org/
• Book Recommendations:
  • Hospicing Modernity https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675703/hospicing-modernity-by-vanessa-machado-de-oliveira/
  • At Work in the Ruins https://www.amazon.com/At-Work-Ruins-Pandemics-Emergencies/dp/164502184X
  • Bruce Sterling – (2002). Tomorrow Now, Envisioning the Next Fifty Years. Random House. [Google Books link]
• Keri and Arathi’s article: Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification
• How Are the Children? - Wake Up Arcade Fire Cover
• Southeast Asia collection of the Turn it Around! Youth Visions of Climate Futures

Clarin Collins, Sean Leahy, Ruth Wylie, Danah Henriksen, and Maricel Lawrence discuss Futures Thinking and how that may look throughout our working spaces and how it affects the decisions we make regarding education. Our guests engage in a round table discussion on how we might look at our futures, the different categories of futures that exist and many more interesting points. 

(6:40)- What is Futures Thinking (FT)? What do we mean when we say that? 

(14:19)- Maricel´s choice of ASU´s PhD program, why did she choose it? Imagining new universities. 

(20:17)- Defining the different possible ¨futures¨.

(25:00)- Categorizing the different kinds of futures.  

(26:46) & (50:58) -How to get people thinking about Futures Thinking. How to create a ¨Futures Mindset¨?

(33:07)- Futures Thinking as a method to spark creativity in people. 

(41:29)- What is the role of Futures Thinking in the education system?

(53:28)- Uncertainty and its relation to Futures Thinking.

You can learn more about our guest´s work by visiting the following links: Ruth Wylie, Danah Henriksen, and Maricel Lawrence. 

If you are in the DC area, you can checkout the Smithsonian exhibit mentioned by Ruth: Smithsonian Institute Futures exhibition. 

The Learning Futures Podcast is produced at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Executive Producer is Dr. Sean Leahy, the show is produced by Dr. Clarin Collins and Karina Muñoz Baltazar.

Can we reimagine philanthropy as if it takes on transformational climate challenges in a more systemic grant process?

In the fifth episode of the Futuring Podcast, Ivana Gazibara, Director of the Futures Centre, talks to Cressida Pollock, the Co-Director of Quadrature Climate Foundation, former Chief Executive of English National Opera and founding member of  Somerset Capital Management. 

Tune in to hear Cressida's fresh perspective on restructuring traditional philanthropic practices for more holistic investments, how climate change is informing this transformation, why tracking positive impacts will lead to more sincere transition pathways and how going beyond the old nonprofit archetype leads to sustained relationships with grantees, in turn, creating deeper impact.

Subscribe to the podcast and visit The Futures Centre https://www.thefuturescentre.org for more insights.

This audio features the song "Boulevard" by Yung Kartz available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Ronald Beghetto talks with Laura McBain about how her experience as a middle and high school substitute teacher led her to thinking about design in education. She began thinking about what we could create in education to create more equitable futures--how can students and teachers help design better futures by reshaping education so it’s able to serve more students with distinct needs, as well as connect with the community? McBain mentions the importance of letting go of the idea that as educators we have to constantly predict what their future will look like, and let students take a more active role towards shaping their futures and their current learning experiences. She poses questions for us such as: How can we as educators be of service for the students in our care and develop their own agency? What are students doing now to shape their learning experiences, their communities, and their futures? 

You can learn more about  Laura McBain by following these links Linked In, d school,  K12 Lab. You can also follow Laura on twitter: @laura_mcbain

At this new episode of @emkanfutures #Podcast, I've hosted Puruesh Chaudhary, a rising star futurist!
We talked about what got her into #Futures_thinking, what were the challenges she faced, and how she dealt with it, and much more!
Puruesh shared many great advices to any one engaged in the field, or planning to.

Know more about our guest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puruesh_Chaudhary

Listen to the full talk at:

Apple Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ae/podcast/emkan-futures-%D8%A5%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%84/id1528782085

Google Podcasts:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMjk4NTYzLnJzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwiorZXBwcDuAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2wi3C2be1gD7PC7kJMUwFn?si=TPk7pCBfTMyMYAyX4rjV3w

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