Action Foresight
RSS
  • About
    • People
      • José Ramos
      • De Chantal Hillis
      • Martin Pritchard
      • Damien Sweeney
      • Tim Mansfield
      • Gareth Priday
    • Ideas
  • Approaches
    • Programme Design and Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Foresight, innovation and enterprise (FIE) modeling
    • Environmental Scanning
    • Anticipatory Services-Ecology Mapping
  • Our Work
    • Publications
    • Projects
    • Multi-media

Rising to the challenge of the 21st century: the role of futures research and practice

By jose ramos On April 24, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Article
This short essay is adapted from a short piece I wrote during my time as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, for their publication Global-is-Asian. ================= More than ever, futures research is needed to support people’s critical understanding of the challenges we face [...]
Read Full Article →

Zhan Li: science fiction, design futures and foresight communication

By jose ramos On March 9, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Audio
I went to LA in June 2012, a lively trip where I did research on foresight communication, the sharing economy and gamification. I was told, in this context, by friend and colleague Stuart Candy that I had to talk to Zhan Li. So I caught up with him at his home in leafy South Pasadena. [...]
Read Full Article →

The Inner Game of Futures

On February 13, 2013 By admin
This past weekend I did a 3 day Vipassana meditation course in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka. Vipassana, according to Goenka,  is a “nonsectarian” form of Buddhist meditation (I know that sounds somewhat contradictory), with strong similarities to the Theravada tradition in Buddhist practice. The majority of the [...]
Read Full Article →

Foresight, Innovation and Enterprise Modeling – A 10+ Year Journey

On January 25, 2013 By jose ramos
This draft paper, titled “Foresight, Innovation and Enterprise Modeling” (downloadable HERE), is the culmination of a decade long journey in attempting to link our evolving knowledge of emerging futures with present action, through a variety of means, innovation and enterprise development, design, activism, policy development, meditation (yes that is correct – doing absolutely nothing is [...]
Read Full Article →

Deep democracy, peer-to-peer production and our common futures / Syvädemokratia, vertaistuotanto ja yhteiset tulevaisuutemmemore

On January 15, 2013 By jose ramos
Earlier this year Dr. Vuokko Jarva, a futures scholar who works on consumer education to promote future consciousness and planetary responsibility and is developing new narrative approaches in futures studies, invited me to write an essay for the Finnish journal Futura (a publication of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies). The special edition of the journal [...]
Read Full Article →

Emerging Futures Emerging Futurists Symposium 2012

On January 9, 2013 By jose ramos
In late November (Nov 30 2012) I had the incredible pleasure of spending good time with the folks at the Manoa School of Futures Studies, who brought an eclectic and dynamic group of emerging practitioners together from around the world.  I feel very grateful to the Manoa gang for their invitation to speak, and I [...]
Read Full Article →

Emergence of the Planetary Self

On December 22, 2012 By jose ramos
      Here is my contribution to the new Mayan Baktun, for what it is worth. Earlier this year Anita Kelleher invited me to give a talk on the idea of the ‘planetary self’ at the Asia Pacific Foresight Conference. She and others put together a lovely friday evening at the Perth Planetarium, on [...]
Read Full Article →

What Lies Beyond Economic Globalization… Cosmo-Localization?

On December 13, 2012 By jose ramos
In late october I gave a public talk at the school I just finished teaching with, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. I wanted to bend some of my dissertation work toward a policy, or at least strategy, orientation. Often times, the policy implications for futures oriented knowledge, scenarios, emerging issues, and global [...]
Read Full Article →

Asia Deep Dive on the Commons and the Temporalities of the Commons

On November 9, 2012 By jose ramos
I was invited in mid Oct to participate in the Asia Deep Dive on the Commons, a process  of the Heinrich Bo?ll Foundation‘s Commons Strategy Group, in large part due to Michel Bauwens’ influence and via our dialogues on alternative globalizations. The HB foundation is doing amazing pioneering work bringing together social innovators and thinkers [...]
Read Full Article →

Foresight in a Network Era: Peer-producing Alternative Futures

On October 30, 2012 By jose ramos
I’d like to announce the publication of a refereed article in the Journal of Futures Studies: “Foresight in a Network Era: Peer-producing Alternative Futures” Over the two and some years I’ve worked with colleagues Tim Mansfield and Gareth Priday, in the Services2020 team. Over the last year we have studied network based approaches to foresight [...]
Read Full Article →
← Previous Entries
  • Posts

    • Rising to the challenge of the 21st century: the role of futures research and practice
    • Zhan Li: science fiction, design futures and foresight communication
    • The Inner Game of Futures
    • Foresight, Innovation and Enterprise Modeling – A 10+ Year Journey
    • Deep democracy, peer-to-peer production and our common futures / Syvädemokratia, vertaistuotanto ja yhteiset tulevaisuutemmemore
    • Emerging Futures Emerging Futurists Symposium 2012
    • Emergence of the Planetary Self
    • What Lies Beyond Economic Globalization… Cosmo-Localization?
    • Asia Deep Dive on the Commons and the Temporalities of the Commons
    • Foresight in a Network Era: Peer-producing Alternative Futures
  • Twitter feed

    • I just posted Rising to the challenge of the 21st century: the role of futures research and practice, read it here: http://t.co/s5DJtI9GBi 4 weeks ago

    • I just posted Zhan Li: science fiction, design futures and foresight communication, read it here: http://t.co/gC2kzZmYWU 2 months ago

    • You're invited to "Footscray Maker Lab Kick Off Session 1" http://t.co/m7JjOP8t 3 months ago

    • I just posted The Inner Game of Futures, read it here: http://t.co/rthdqT7w 3 months ago

    • I'm attending Footscray Maker Lab Kick Off Session 1 -- http://t.co/KRLItChZ - all welcome to come! 3 months ago

    View more tweets

  • Who's Online

    • 0 Members.
    • 1 Guest.
  • RSS China Foresight

    • The Wind Dragon: a Chinese tale of wind power June 4, 2012
      by Fabrizio Bozzato Because of the hectic pace of China’s economic and social development, Chinese energy demand will continue to grow rapidly in next 40 years. Beijing appears determined to pursue a low-carbon development strategy, and wind energy is going … Continue reading → […]
      fabrizio1973
    • U.S.-China Ten Year Framework for Energy and Environment Cooperation April 14, 2012
      Washington, DC – The United States and the People’s Republic of China held the 8th Joint Working Group Meeting of the U.S.-China Ten Year Framework (TYF) for Energy and Environment Cooperation April 9-10 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant … Continue reading → […]
      jramos
  • RSS The Foresight Epidemic

    • Reflection – The Future of Cities in the Asia-Pacific January 22, 2013
      Well, Happy New Year! I have to admit, I’ve delayed posting this reflection because I wasn’t sure we’d make it to a new b’ak’tun and what would have been the point? But I’m glad we’re all here, safe and sound. The … Continue reading → […]
      timmansfield
    • Reflections – The futures of Childhood Education December 11, 2012
      We’ve been away a while haven’t we? We’re also couple of reflections behind, this one will cover the Futures of Childhood Education and Tim will post one up for the Future of Cities. Then we’re going to take a break … Continue reading → […]
      theforesightepidemic

Search

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Archives

All entries, chronologically...

  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
I just posted Rising to the challenge of the 21st century: the role of futures research and practice, read it here: http://t.co/s5DJtI9GBi  — actionforesight
Action Foresight

Pages

  • About
  • Approaches
  • Our Work

The Latest

  • Rising to the challenge of the 21st century: the role of futures research and practice
    This short essay is adapted from a short piece I wrote during […]

More

© 2012 Action Foresight
PageLines by PageLines