...moving beyond the status-quo
The professional development day of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) was held on Saturday, 7 July at the Vancouver Public Library, which makes an architectural statement in its own right. . The Day opened with a welcome from Mary-Jane Naquin and Jennifer Jarratt, followed by introductions – we each answered the question “we had [...]
I’m currently in Vancouver to attend the World Future Society Conference for the first time, and attend the professional development day of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF). I’ll be doing a set of posts from Vancouver here, and they will also be posted to APFLive. Last night, Foresight Canada and Ruben Nelso hosted a dinner [...]
For the last twitter chat (#futrchat) held by the Association of Professional Futurists, I wrote a blog post on the topic: what big questions do we need to ask about the future? The twitter chat was great, so I thought it might be interesting to record all the big questions and big issues that were [...]
The topic for the Association of Professional Futurists’ Twitter chat (#futrchat) this week (see below for details) is “what big questions do we need to ask about the future?” We all have questions about how the future might shape up for us. That’s the most fundamental and urgent driver for building our foresight capacity – [...]
The Association of Professional Futurists recently undertook a survey of members to determine the most important futures work. While such a survey is limited to the opinions of members, the top five books are – to my mind – essential reading for those interested in thinking about the future: Peter Schwartz, The Art of the [...]
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