Future Resources

Causal Layered Analysis with The Futures School

Kedge Principal Frank Spencer demonstrates how to use the Causal Layered Analysis tool created by Sohail Inayatullah. View

‘What is Futures Literacy and why is it important?’

Nicklas Larsen, Jeanette Kæseler Mortensen & Riel Miller on overcoming blind resistance to change and poverty of the imagination. "Futures literacy enables us to become aware of the sources of our hopes and fears, and improves our ability to harness the power of images of the future, to enable us to more fully appreciate the diversity of both the world... View

Causal Layered Analysis: Sohail Inayatullah at TEDxNoosa

Professor Sohail Inayatullah reveals the theory of Causal Layered Analysis, a practice of organisational, social and civilisational change, seeking to transform the present and the future through deconstructing and reconstructing reality at four levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImWDmFPfifI View

The Thing from the Future

The Thing from the Future is an imagination game that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures. The objective of the game is to generate entertaining but thought-provoking descriptions of hypothetical objects from near-, medium-, and long-term futures. Creators: Situation Lab, Stuart Candy (School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University), Jeff Watson (University... View

Futures Literacy Theatre Lab for Refugees

“In my country the future is embedded in the present. Whatever you do today creates the future” (participant from Sierra Leone). What do unaccompanied asylum seeking minors think about the future? How they approach and use the future? How does their cultural identity and their past traumatic experiences reflect on their anticipatory assumptions? What can we learn from them? A... View

Kewulay Kamara, ‘Imagining the Future of the Transition from “Youth” to “Adult”‘

A case study of a Futures Literacy Lab held in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in which storytelling, ritual and culture were key frames through which young people could reimagine what it is to become an 'adult'. Read more View

The homepage for UNESCO’s Futures Literacy

“A universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination,” with links to resources and activities including Futures Literacy Labs. Read more View

Puruesh Chaudhary – Shaping the Future of Journalism

Added: 17th May 2021

“Puruesh discusses how the practice of journalism needs to evolve in the face of continuous global change and rapid technological advancements. Plus, she also touches on foresight journalism and its importance in the coming decades to society, governments, and businesses.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuQNg7pJaZw View

Justin W Cook (ed), Sustainability, Human Well-Being,and the Future of Education (2019)

A collection of essays exploring the possible futures of education, asking questions such as “What is the purpose of education? Should education systems be burdened with sustainability? And how should we determine its purpose? To what end do we learn?” View

Puruesh Chaudhary, ‘The Incredible Awakening: A journey of Transitions and Transformation’

Puruesh Chaudhary tells her story of “using methodologies old and new [to] creat[e] alternative futures,” with a focus on Future Studies in Pakistan. View

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