Foresight-wise theme

In this turbulent 21^st century the scope of foresight has come to address existential ‘grand challenges’, such as climate change, mass extinction, digital surveillance and post-truth fragmentation. The scope of possible transformation is also moving rapidly, with new paradigms for governance, economic systems, and knowledge co-production among others.

This is an opportunity for the practice and theory of ‘looking ahead’ to move towards a next generation ‘Foresight 3.0’ – ‘from transition to transformation’. This is a foresight process based on a ‘collective anticipatory intelligence’: the mutual learning, co-innovation and co-production, between a wider stakeholder community, with deeper layers of value & meaning, and further horizons of transformation. This is a twin track agenda –

– internally, for the ‘collective anticipatory intelligence’ within the foresight process (the ‘means’):
– externally, for the foresight users and society around, where the ‘collective anticipatory intelligence’ is the key to the transformations ahead (‘the ends’).

Foresight 3.0 (aka ‘foresight-wise’) is at the core of the synergistic approach, with many possible ‘STEEPC’ applications –

Social: place-making, social innovation, social economies
Technology: smart / AI systems, circular economies;
Environmental: climate adaptation, net-zero transitions, risk & resilience, eco-innovation ;
Economic: collaborative / transformative business models, financial systems, economic paradigms:
Policy: collaborative / transformative governance, road-mapping, participation, conflict resolution etc;
Cultural: post-truth, decolonization, emancipation, spiritual development;
Urban & territorial: city /region foresight, visioning & transformation.

See the introduction – Deeper City – 9-4 – Foresight-III

For more see the Foresight 3.0 overview

Core partners: SAMI Consulting

Program 2025

Foresight 3.0 interactive workshop & keynote at the Future4Europe Vienna May15-16 – Future-Oriented Collective Intelligence (‘FOCI’) for complex interconnected challenges & opportunities
the Foresight 3.0 special issue published Feb 2025, with 11 excellent papers, will also be launched in Vienna

Program 2024:

Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development（CASTED) ‘Foresight 3.0’ UK program: Sept 25th 1pm seminar at MIOIR: 4pm ‘Urban Futures east-west forum’ 4pm at MUI: Sept 27th 330pm ‘Foresight 3.0’ with Government Office of Science & SAMI consulting: London (tbc) full program emerging on Foresight-wise CASTED
Foresight 3.0 capacity building workshop with senior managers from Bouyges, Sept 23-24th.
‘Doom loops, eco-wars & the frontiers of systems methods’. interactive workshop based on the Eco-wars 3.0 program – Sept 11th at the Operational Research Society annual conference
‘Collective economic intelligence’ workshop 31st July, London: session at the UCL Summer School on Economics for Sustainability: Climate Change and Social Inequalities – https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/summer-school/modules/economics-for-sustainability
Envision-MCR: advice to the next government: 20th June: Manchester Urban Institute LAB meeting (Local Advisory Board) – exploring challenges from net-zero and housing, to mental health and extremism – for research-policy priorities and forward agendas – Envision MCR

Program archive 2021-23

Foresight 3.0 Ukraine circular economy – working with UNIDO on the longer term prospects for Ukraine as a innovative and sustainable circular economy
Foresight 3.0 special issue – call for papers now open – with a platform including papers, perspectives, comments – and the launch event April 13th.
Foresight 3.0 Indonesia aims to contribute to the ongoing program for the Ministry of National Development Planning, with the Nalar Institute (https://nalarinstitute.com/) and Centre for Innovation Policy & Governance (https://cipg.or.id/en/).
Eco-wars-3.0 – next session September 29th 2023 : Climate systems catastrophe & tipping points – versus – human systems catastrophe & tipping points?? We explore ways to think ahead for a viable future with all on board…
Foresight 3.0 for climate change / all change: interactive workshop: July 10th 2022 at the International Society for Systems Sciences – https://www.isss.org/online-2022/. Wherever climate action changes the structures of power & ideology, we can expect power games, blame games, truth games, split incentives, or simple inertia & myopia…
Climate-wise – New-world-disorder/ – April 8th 2022 – in a world of disruption and conflict, how to manage our common climate? can a next generation ‘Foresight 3.0’ enable the ‘collective climatic intelligence’?
Climate-sight 3.0: how to explore a future of disruption & chaos with Foresight 3.0?: (following the COP26): Feb 4th 2022
Strategic policy intelligence for cities & regions – how to do next generation policy & planning? practical applications in public & corporate sectors (with HSE): April 14^th2021
Foresight from theory to practice: Training capacity building (for the HSE Masters program): April-June
Pandemonics 3.0: tools for collective foresight intelligence, turning crisis into opportunity (hosted at ORS63), Sept 15th
Foresight – going viral? Oct 21^st2021 – taking FS3.0 upwards & outwards (hosted at the XI Conference on Foresight and STI Policy, HSE Moscow).