A Participatory and Personal Futures Design Course Something is wrong with how we engage with AI and climate. We read the commentary. We have the conversations. We read the reports. They tell us what’s coming. And yet most of us leave those conversations feeling smaller, not larger. More anxious, not more empowered. Like spectators looking …
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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 …
Futures Lab Academy
The Futures Lab Academy is a learning space for exploring and experimenting with the critical ideas and practices needed to address our 21st Century challenges. The purpose of the Futures Lab Academy is to help people discover their unique powers and purpose in the service of navigating the great transitions and challenges we collectively face. …
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