Future Care Force (https://futurecareforce.org/) is a role-based futures game grounded in global climate-health research, designed to help build resilient and equitable health systems in a climate-impacted future. The premise is urgent and real: changing weather patterns, extreme events, and environmental crises are driving increased rates of heat-related illness, vector-borne disease, and mental health challenges — …
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Participatory Futures: Past, Present, and Futures
CALL FOR SUB-EDITORS An Invitation to Shape a Landmark Work in Futures Studies Series Editors: John Sweeney & Jose Ramos A Book for This Moment We are living through an unprecedented crisis of the social imagination. Across the globe, the images people hold of the future have been colonised by dystopian media cycles, algorithmic anxiety, …
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Collected Writing
Ramos J., Dayiha, B. (Ed.) (Forthcoming – 2026). Planetary Cities: Future Hacking the Urban. Springer. (book) Vega, K., Baltazar, M., López, P., Ruiz, L., & Ramos, J. M. (2024) Reimagining Lotería: Participatory Futures and Cultural Renewal in Mexico. Journal of Futures Studies (essay) Chimal, A., & Ramos, J. (2024). Using Anticipatory Experimentation to Explore and …
Planetary Mutations
We can’t navigate the future with a map drawn for a world that no longer exists. We’re told this is an age of disruption — climate crisis, technological upheaval, political unraveling — but the usual responses miss the depth of the moment: this isn’t “crisis management,” it isn’t “sustainability” (as if the goal were sustaining …
Mutant Futures
Most thinking about the future trapped in short horizons, quarterly goals, and the tired stories of progress or doom. Mutant Futures is a course for people who who sense that their lives are not just five-year plans but part of an epic unfolding across centuries, and who want to make a real difference in these …
Five Frameworks of Foresight
Five Frameworks of Foresight (FFF) provides a comprehensive overview of five different foresight frameworks, methodologies and strategies developed and used by Dr. Jose Ramos, over his career. The course is meant to pass the baton to current and emerging practitioners, to use and adapt a variety of ways of thinking about foresight practice in their …
Pacifica Means Peace – Hacking the present to create alternative futures
By José Ramos and Jeanne Hoffman Pacifica Means Peace is a project dedicated to envisioning a future of peaceful coexistence between the USA, China, and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to explore the futures we collectively wish to avoid and those we aspire to create. …
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Using an Alternative Future-Histories Approach to Explore Peace in the Pacific
Pacifica Means Peace is a project that aims to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to engage the public in considering the futures that we want to avoid and that we want to create. There is …
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Pacifica Means Peace
Comment Pacifica Means Peace (PMP) is a project to use participatory futures methods to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China. Images of the future have the power to shape the imagination of the public and policymakers. As well, images of the future come with cognitive bias, for example a military think tank …
About the Virtual Centre for Collaborative Governance
The Virtual Centre for Collaborative Governance was created to support the capacity for people in many avenues to engage in the collaborative governance of our shared commons. Background Collaborative governance of our shared commons represents a phase shift in human thinking and practice in governance. A commons is something which a group of people mutually …
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