"Futures Literacy is a universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, and offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination."
- UNESCO Futures Literacy

We’re thrilled to be joined by UNESCO’s Futures Literacy Head of Futures Literacy Riel Miller and anticipation specialist Kwamou Eva Feukeu for our final d.school futures series of the season. Together we’ll explore what Futures Literacy is, how it can be acquired, and how its recent developments demonstrate how we have yet to capture the reality of difference in our perception and decision-making processes. The webinar will run from 10-11AM PST on Thursday, June 24th.

In this session we will challenge ourselves to decipher the connection between change and difference, futures and perception, and futures and the Other. These connections have been quite in vogue with the interest in decolonising futures, or even in recurrent formulas of futures conversations such as during UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit 2020.

But:

“Benefitting from the opportunity to narrate futures does not guarantee the end of the perpetual reconfiguration of oppressive structures. It requires a capability-based approach. The capacity to be humble, the capacity to acknowledge past errors, present erratic wandering, and prospective errancy. The ability to learn from others, to share your ideas, and negotiate a collective cosmovision.”
(Kwamou Eva Feukeu, ‘Futures or the Reproduction of Oppression,’ Futures, 2021, Forthcoming).

As futures practitioners and teachers are trying to find new ways to interact with learners and trigger their imagination, we discover a new purpose for (the) future(s). We are invited to tell stories, to reinvent narratives, to ask new questions. Will it be enough to detect change or create new incentives for imagining?

Let us discuss.