Future Resources

Stefan Bergheim, On the Evaluation of Futures Literacy Labs

Added: 13th March 2025

Futures Literacy Laboratories (FLLs) are a relatively new method for dealing with the future in complex adaptive systems. So far, little research has been done on the evaluation of the method’s merits. This paper combines insights from evaluation research with results from ten interviews with experienced designers and facilitators of such laboratories. It shows that the acquisition of competences, the... View

Future Narratives: Informal Innovative Pathways

Added: 13th April 2023

A course designed to empower young people through Futures Literacy, narrative and storytelling, while developing their key competencies and skills. Based on the methodologies developed through our project, this document offers approaches and practical activities designed to foster young people’s abilities to understand and reconstruct their narratives of the future. Find an account of the Future Narratives journey, inspiration and... View

Stories from 2050: Radical, inspiring and thought-provoking narratives around challenges and opportunities of our futures

"Adding up to 21 stories, the narratives in this booklet deal with the planetary emergency, the existential threat of climate change and the biodiversity crisis, which are driving the European Green Deal. They were built on ideas by people from all around the world. Some were experts in the field, some purely engaged citizens with a story to tell. Stories... View

Go ahead, dream about the future

Charlie Anders @ TED - "'You don't predict the future -- you imagine the future,' says sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders. In a talk that's part dream, part research-based extrapolation, she takes us on a wild, speculative tour of the delights and challenges the future may hold -- and shows how dreaming up weird, futuristic possibilities empowers us to construct... View

Becoming Futures Literate

Lois Damhof @ Future Summit 2021 - "How do we use future thinking to rethink the present? Futures Literacy is a capability that helps us to embrace uncertainty and question the status quo, both necessary to make full use of the complexity of life and re-imagine the world as it is. Learn more about becoming future literate from Loes Damhof... View

Futures literacy: Shaping your present by reimagining futures

Lois Damhof - TEDxYouth@Groningen: "The future does not exist, we can only imagine it. By expanding how we imagine futures, we can see the present differently and learn how to embrace uncertainty. Loes Damhof is a 21st Century Skills teacher at the Communication & Multimedia Design program at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen and responsible for the... View

Futures Literacy And Developing A Futures-Thinking Mindset

“The problem is, there is no crystal ball and no one can actually see the future. Once more, we all have generations of ingrained social programming through existing norms and culture, with the associated prejudices and confirmation bias. (…) If we want to prepare for an unknowable and uncertain future, we must seek meaning and images of the future that... View

Imagining Africa’s Futures (UNESCO)

“The African Union's Agenda 2063 and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set up our common goals and vision for Africa. In order to advance towards achieving these objectives, Africans must go beyond extrapolating past trends and looking into paths taken by other regions of the world. In this context, UNESCO and the OCP Foundation signed an agreement,... View

D Gladwin et. al., ‘Imagining Futures Literacies: A Collaborative Practice’

“Rather than thinking singularly about what may constitute futures literacy, this article performs a collaborative discussion, a relational exercise among scholars in the field to explore and excavate various meanings and activities that might contribute to an ongoing body of knowledge, simultaneously attempting to understand and reframe it through a series of inquiry questions.” View

G Liveley et. al., ‘Futures literacy through narrative’

“This paper explores the particular role of narrative in developing futures literacy. As literacy denotes the ability to express and absorb meaning through language, enabling individuals to parse information and relate to others, then futures literacy also needs to draw on the insights of narrative to embrace its full emancipatory potential.” View

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