Future Resources

JM Wittmayer et. al., ‘Narratives of Change: How social innovation initiatives construct societal transformation’

“Alongside current policy discourses on the transformative potentials of social innovation, social innovation initiatives also construct their own accounts of how society can be transformed and by whom. Building on state-of-the-art futures studies and narrative research and their linkages, this article unfolds these narratives of change (NoC) by social innovation initiatives.” View

What if we became the best storytellers we could possibly be?

Rob Hopkins, author and co-founder of the Transitions Network, writes about the power of the time machine. What would we see if we travelled to a 2030 which is no utopia or dystopia, but "the 2030 that resulted from our having actually tried, with all our creativity, might and imagination, to implement, at scale, everything we already know would transform... View

Neil Gaiman and Yuval Noah Harari talk to Sevgil Musayeva

From the Hay Festival, a discussion about storytelling, imagining the future, and the war in Ukraine. The Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and the children’s book Unstoppable Us talks to the English writer of science fiction, comics and screenplays. Chaired by Sevgil Musayeva, editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda. View

Martha Oetti on Futures Literacy

"How do you imagine the future? What are your images of the future?" Martha Oetti explains the key value of Futures Literacy Labs in making our images of the future visible, and shares a new online tool that can help us to do so. View

The Imaginary Crisis

"We are in the midst of a very urgent, real, global and deadly crisis. But as the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis, and one which is scarcely visible: the deteriorating state of our shared social imagination." Demos Helsinki Fellow Geoff Mulgan's paper explores the deficit of social... View

Webinar with Riel Miller

Highlights from our webinar with Riel Miller, UNESCO Head of Futures Literacy. Riel discusses the ways in which our expectations shape our understanding of the future, the power structures which underlie the ways in which the future is perceived, and the importance of embracing uncertainty. View

The Horizons Project

A US-based organisation working to address systematic injustice, advance social healing, and reimagine democracy, the Horizons Project discusses how we think and feel about the future, and shares resources on imaginations and futures. View

#OurFutures

The future can evolve in different directions, each shaped by our actions of today. In order to capture the ideas about the future the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Foresight has launched the event #OurFutures - Images for the future of Europe. Share your story imagining a positive future for Europe, and read the stories of others. View

Loes Damhof on Futures Literacy

Loes Damhof of Hanze University of Applied Sciences introduces the concept of Futures Literacy - using the future to influence the present. View

Future Narratives Webinar Guide and Resource Pack

Added: 22nd December 2021

Find out more about our webinars by and for youth workers, including resources, readings, and outputs. WEBINARS_ALL-SESSION-COLLECTED_FUTURE-NARRATIVESDownload View

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