Foresight-wise theme
In this turbulent 21st 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
