Institute for the Future

For me ‘working people forced to live in vehicles in a wealthy Bay Area city’ was a major signal. IFTF Executive Director Marina Gorbis explains why we need to take action today to address America’s crisis of poverty read more.

Reminder! Tomorrow, join IFTF for a conversation with Terry Irwin and Gideon Kossoff of the Transition Design Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University to discuss Transition Design, which explores social roots of wicked problems and places stakeholder concerns and co-design/collaboration at the heart of the problem-solving process. https://iftf.zoom.us//8516142197/WN_bNIEdMGcS7KuX7bywqDPeA

How can you convince internal stakeholders to care about foresight? IFTF’s Dylan Hendricks says you need to cultivate a culture of foresight that runs across the entire organization and you can use the IFTF Vantage platform Future Factors to get started. https://www.iftf.org//future-factors-flex-your-foresight-/

Want to have the best week of your life? Alum Sinoxolo Khowane says that’s easy just sign up for IFTF Foresight Essentials! Learn #futuresthinking: https://www.iftf.org/foresightpractitionerstraining/

This week, we kicked off our spring IFTF Foresight Essentials training with a great cohort of foresight practitioners from around the world! Congratulations to our participants we’re excited to help you grow your #foresight capacity. Learn more: iftf.org/foresightessentials

How can technologies be catalysts for climate transformation? Hear from clean energy advocate Ramez Naam at our upcoming expert convening on climate change on Feb. 10-11 along with many other distinguished speakers! Register: https://new-climate-iftf-vantage.eventbrite.com/?aff=social

A recording of our recent IFTF Foresight Talk on intersections between art, technology futures, and indigenous knowledge is now online! Listen to this thoughtful conversation between IFTF Executive Director Marina Gorbis and digital media artist @Jason Edward Lewis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95eVsM8lGY

Participants in IFTF Foresight Essentials receive access to our proprietary foresight toolkit - plus 22 hours of live instruction, access to a faculty of seasoned futures professionals and more. View our upcoming dates and register! https://www.iftf.org/foresightpractitionerstraining/

Maria Clara Sousa Magalhaes shares her experience with IFTF Design Futures training. Learn more: https://www.iftf.org/designfuturestraining/

Join us JAN 19 at 9am PST for IFTF Ask a Futurist on Optimistic Futures with award-winning journalist, author, and futurist @jacquesbarcia. RSVP to join: https://iftf.zoom.us//7116075523/WN_IU2z_GWwQ0mqzTUdTT_XYg #askafuturist #iftfvantage