Following the “experiential turn” in futures studies [1], many futures & foresight researchers and practitioners are using serious games in their foresight interventions. And for good reasons. Serious games leverage amusement, although not primarily intended for amusement [2] to substantially facilitate learning from and engagement with future scenarios. They are…

Jordan Peterson’s thought has profound implications for the way we envision, evaluate, and move into the future(s) ahead of us. Yet, Peterson’s extensive work has little explicit connections with the discipline that formally investigates the future(s), i. e., futures (studies) and foresight (see this article/video for more information about this…

Framing a futures and foresight project before the project takes off involves defining as clearly as possible what the project is going to be about [1–4]. Because framing is carried out in any consulting project, it cannot be considered a futures and foresight skill. Rather, it’s a generic consulting/facilitation skill…

In December 2018, I was approached by a leading tertiary educational institution in Singapore for my potential involvement in what seemed to be an exciting and ambitious long-term foresight project, supported by the newly elected university’s president. The project aimed at studying the possible futures of education globally and the…

If you are familiar with scenario planning — here intended in the inclusive sense, i.e. intuitive logics scenarios as well as alternative futures approaches — or with futures and foresight in general, you might have heard that scenarios can be either explorative or normative, but what do those two terms…

Wild cards are one of the most controversial topics in futures and foresight, as there is neither consensus on what wild cards are, nor on how to identify them and incorporate them in scenarios. Additionally, wild cards are also a topic of great interest given what we’ve been experiencing in…

In the field of futures and foresight, we investigate a range of different images of the future — that is, different representations of the collective state of things of a society as a whole in all of its aspects in the future, usually in the form of scenarios. Since we…

When I was producing a video on the different uses of science fiction as a form of foresight, I struggled to make sense of the differences and similarities between three seemingly overlapping and oftentimes conflated practices: science fiction prototyping, design fiction and worldbuilding. As the interest in using these practices…

You might have heard that science fiction can be used as a foresight method, or that foresight practice can draw from science fiction to imagine the futures. …