Foresight-wise theme

 

Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – a ‘hyper-wicked’ problem, with deeper threat multipliers all around. How to manage such transformations, and steer from crisis to opportunity? Can we envision a next-generation practice of futures and foresight, which has never been so urgent? Such a Foresight-3.0 would follows the principles & practice of collective anticipatory intelligence:  both within the foresight process, and for the potential transformations around it.

Key issues and challenges:

  • Foresight & futures methods & applications
  • Science technology innovation (STI)
  • Social, economic, political innovation & transformation  

Core partners: HSE Moscow: (SAMI Consulting).  

Outline program:

  1. ‘Strategic policy intelligence 3.0’: how to do next generation policy & planning? practical applications in public & corporate sectors (with HSE): April 14th
  2. Foresight from theory to practice’: Training capacity building & skills sharing (at HSE): April-June
  3. ‘Pandemonics 3.0’: who & how to trust scientific knowledge in an age of disruption?: adaptive pathways for cognitive co-existence (with ISIS), July 9th
  4. ‘Empowerment 3.0’: how to mobilize social innovation & cultural capital with Foresight 3.0?: (with HSE) Nov 26th
  5. ‘Foresight 3.0 pathways’: how to put theory / practice together & what next? Dec 17th

 

Co-productions:  Foresight Journal, 2022 special issue, with a platform including papers, perspectives, comments.

The University of Manchester