Elina Hiltunen: Finpro and Crowdsourcing Foresight
This is the first in a series of interviews with futurists using state of the art network based approaches to foresight work. Network based approaches can be seen as those which utilize ICT...
View ArticleJake Dunagan: The Institute for the Future and Gamification for Social Foresight
This is the second part in a series on network based approaches to foresight. I was fortunate to catch up with colleague Jake Dunagan, director of research at the Institute for the Future (IFTF). IFTF...
View ArticleVenessa Miemis: Open Foresight and the Future of Facebook
This is the third interview in this series on foresight in the network era. Venessa Miemis is one of the originators of the Open Foresight concept. In some regards it is a re-iteration of an older...
View ArticleWhat Lies Beyond Economic Globalization… Cosmo-Localization?
In late october I gave a public talk at the school I just finished teaching with, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. I wanted to bend some of my dissertation work toward a policy,...
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Emerging Futures Emerging Futurists Symposium 2012
In late November (Nov 30 2012) I had the incredible pleasure of spending good time with the folks at the Manoa School of Futures Studies, who brought an eclectic and dynamic group of emerging...
View ArticleZhan Li: science fiction, design futures and foresight communication
I went to LA in June 2012, a lively trip where I did research on foresight communication, the sharing economy and gamification. I was told, in this context, by friend and colleague Stuart Candy that I...
View ArticleTessa Finlev – Catalyst of Change
I met Tessa Finlev in my capacity as consulting editor of JFS. She wrote an amazing article called “Future Peace: Breaking Cycles of Violence through Futures Thinking”, in which she argued that...
View ArticleKate McCallum: the Center for Conscious Creativity, Transmedia Storytelling...
I was very lucky to meet up with Kate McCallum, at her offices at LA Center Studios, in June 2012. I had been hoping to catch up with her for a while, she is one of the global pioneers in bringing...
View ArticleCosmo-localization
I was recently given an opportunity to give a presentation at the Local Lives – Global Matters Conference in Castlemaine, Vic, where I pitched the idea of “Cosmo-localization”. I’ve been wanting to...
View ArticleEducation Out of the Box
I was given an opportunity to provide a presentation at VU’s Metro West for Learning Agenda, an ambitious start up create by Professor Siew Fang Law, which aims to shake up the way in which learning...
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