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As a futurist I often get the question: What really is “futures thinking” and why should I care? ...
IFTF Releases “Mega Scenarios Toolkit” To Help Decision Makers Explore Urgent Futures Facing California...
Congratulations to everyone who seized the window of opportunity to help build this community from...
“What if we treated the art of cultivating dignity as an intentional economy? What if dignity was currency and the raw material to make it was...
Climate change is one of the most urgent future–and present–issues to consider in any foresight project. It will continue to be a major driver of...
“We are suffering from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress is over and...
The following is an excerpt from Jane McGonigal’s Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything, Even Things that Seem...
If you've taken IFTF’s Foresight Essentials training, you have encountered this image showing the cycle of Prepare, Foresight, Insight, and Action. It...
OCT 7-DEC 12 2022. A new IFTF 8-week course developed in partnership with Politecnico di Milano's...
To address the future of your own university when one is still a student is a unique opportunity to change the existing structures according to one's...
If you’ve done any amount of futures work you’ve inevitably had experiences with skeptics. The doubt can come in the form of snide comments about...
OCCRP co-founders and IFTF Fellows do their part for Ukraine with the Russian Asset Tracker.
IFTF Welcomes Seven New Future for Good Fellows!
At IFTF, we remain dedicated to creating safe spaces for people to dream and imagine how we can build a better, more humane, and equitable world....
Urgent Optimists is Institute for the Future's first individual membership program.
“Growing up, it was never a dream of mine to become a futurist,” says Susanne Forchheimer, a Research Manager at IFTF. “I didn’t even know it existed...
Think of the last time you visited a museum. What kind of experience was it for you? Did it lead you to interrogate ideas we hold of the past,...