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The '''Current events''' portal presents worldwide events in the field of Future Studies & Foresight. In particular, all the Mutual Learning Workshops organised during the [[Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education]] project, implementing the concept of [[FORwiki:Bucharest Dialogues|Bucharest Dialogues]], are presented in this section of the [[FORwiki:The Foresight Wiki|Foresight Wiki]].  
The '''Current events''' portal presents worldwide events in the field of Future Studies & Foresight. In particular, all the Mutual Learning Workshops organised during the [[Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education]] project, implementing the concept of [[FORwiki:Bucharest Dialogues|Bucharest Dialogues]], are presented in this section of the [[FORwiki:The Foresight Wiki|Foresight Wiki]].  
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Members of the [[FORwiki:FORwiki Community|FORwiki Community]] are invited to state their willingness to participate in these events and cooperate for their organizing. If you have an idea for an event that you feel it would be of interest for the Foresight Community of Practice, create a FORwiki page, list it under ''On the community's agenda'', and try to create an alliance with other members of the FORwiki Community around it.
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Members of the [[FORwiki:The FORwiki Community|FORwiki Community]] are invited to state their willingness to participate in these events and cooperate for their organizing. If you have an idea for an event that you feel it would be of interest for the Foresight Community of Practice, create a FORwiki page, list it under ''On the community's agenda'', and try to create an alliance with other members of the FORwiki Community around it.
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* [[MLW:Systems Thinking for Foresight|Workshop: Systems Thinking for Foresight, Bucharest (Romania), September 23rd - 25th, 2009 ]]
* [[MLW:Systems Thinking for Foresight|Workshop: Systems Thinking for Foresight, Bucharest (Romania), September 23rd - 25th, 2009 ]]
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* [[MLW:Scenario Building in Higher Education|Workshop: Scenario Building in Higher Education, , Bucharest (Romania), October 30th - November 1st, 2009]]
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* [[MLW:Scenario Building in Higher Education|Workshop: Scenario Building in Higher Education, Bucharest (Romania), October 30th - November 1st, 2009]]
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* [[Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki|Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki, Bucharest (Romania), April 14th - 16th, 2010]]
* [[Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki|Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki, Bucharest (Romania), April 14th - 16th, 2010]]
* [[MLW:Integrating Futures Methodologies|Workshop: Integrating Futures Methodologies, Bucharest (Romania), June 9th - 11th, 2010]]
* [[MLW:Integrating Futures Methodologies|Workshop: Integrating Futures Methodologies, Bucharest (Romania), June 9th - 11th, 2010]]
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* [[MLW:Crazy Foresight|Workshop: Crazy Foresight, Bucharest (Romania), January 2011]]
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* [[21st Century Higher Education: Leadeship, Innovation and Human Capital Development - Euro-Atlantic, Black Sea and Caspian Sea Area Studies|21st Century Higher Education: Leadeship, Innovation and Human Capital Development - Euro-Atlantic, Black Sea and Caspian Sea Area Studies, Bucharest (Romania), July 8th - 10th, 2010]]
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* [[MLW:Foresight in the University|Workshop: Foresight in the University, Bucharest (Romania), September 29th - October 1st, 2010]]
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* [[MLW:Expert Knowledge, Prediction, Forecasting: A Social Sciences Perspective|Workshop: Expert Knowledge, Prediction, Forecasting: A Social Sciences Perspective, Bucharest (Romania), November 19th - 21st, 2010]]
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* [[MLW:Collaborative Methods for Foresight: Delphi, Scenarios, and Models|Workshop: Collaborative Methods for Foresight: Delphi, Scenarios, and Models, Bucharest (Romania), April 13th - 15th, 2011]]
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* [[MLW:Vision Building|Workshop: Vision Building, Bucharest (Romania), May 3rd-4th, 2011]]
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* [[MLW:Background Research for Scenario Building: Economic Clusters, Knowledge Economy and Development Strategies|Workshop: Background Research for Scenario Building: Economic Clusters, Knowledge Economy and Development Strategies, Bucharest (Romania), May 27th - 29th, 2011]]
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* [[MLW:Crazy Foresight|Workshop: Crazy Foresight, Delta Nature Resort (Romania), June 28th - July 1st, 2011]]
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* [[MLW:Strategic Intelligence for Extended Regional Coherence|UNIDO Workshop: Strategic Intelligence for Extended Regional Coherence, Bucharest (Romania), August 30th - 31st, 2011]]
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* [[MLW:Trans-national Foresight for a Black Sea Higher Education Area|Workshop: Trans-national Foresight for a Black Sea Higher Education Area, Bucharest (Romania), August 31st - September 2nd, 2011]]
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'''Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki''' is a planned workshop, during which the Foresight Wiki will be officially launched. Prior to the event, each participant will put one Foresight case online within the [[Portal:Narratives|Narratives]] portal. Each participant is welcomed to tell his/hers Foresight story in any way s/he think best to bring out the most interesting aspects. It is recommended to keep in mind that some readers may be interested in the outcomes of an exercise while others may rather want to know “how it was done”. In particular those practitioners who will use the experience to do something similar will most likely be interested in “what went wrong” and “lessons learned” at least as much as in success stories. [[Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki| '''(more...)''']]
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‘Any useful idea about the future', says Jim Dator – considered by many to be grandfather of the field – 'should appear to be ridiculous'. Why? Because much of the future is going to be totally novel and has not been currently or previously experienced. Thus, anything useful that one can say about the future would appear to most people as quite crazy. Dator goes on to state, in his Seventh Law of Futures, that 'if futurists expect to be useful, they should expect to be ridiculed and for their ideas initially to be rejected'. In a slightly different vein, Sardar's First Law of Futures Studies states that 'futures studies are wicked'. They are wicked because they deal with 'wicked problems' which are by nature complex, chaotic, interconnected with in-built contradictions and uncertainty. But futures studies are also 'wicked in the sense that they are playfully open ended (like a 'scientific' discipline they do not offer a single solution but only possibilities). Their boundaries, such as they are, are totally porous and they are quite happy to borrow ideas and tools, whatever is needed, from any and all disciplines and discourses'. So what some people may perceive as crazy may actually be highly useful. And wickedness – that highlights and plays with complexity and uncertainty with verve and wit – can actually open up new domains for the future, unlocking the 'unthought' of foresight and futures studies. Far from being irrelevant, crazy and playfully wicked ideas have a positive role in futures and foresight work and can be useful tools for investigating the outer boundaries of futures deliberations and perceptions.
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[[MLW:Crazy Foresight| '''(more...)''']]
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* [[MLW:Foresight in the University|Workshop: Foresight in the University]]
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* [[MLW:Foresight as a Change Management Tool|Workshop: Foresight as a Change Management Tool]]
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* [[MLW:Transnational Foresight|Workshop: Transnational Foresight]]
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* [[MLW:Coagulation of Expert Opinions|Workshop: Coagulation of Expert Opinions]]
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* [[MLW:Vision Building|Workshop: Vision Building]]
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'''Integrating Futures Methodologies''' is a workshop to be organized in Bucharest, coordinated by Prof. Ziauddin Sardar and Prof. George Cairns. Future studies and foresight have a rich store of methodologies – ranging from forecasting, scenario planning and trend analysis to Delphi, modelling, simulation, cross-impact analysis, early warning signals, weak signals, road maps, visioning, backcasting, casual layered analysis and integral futures, to mention just a few. ‘The State of the Future 2009’ report, from the Millennium Project, lists over 30 methods now being used in futures and foresight work. However, given the characteristics of contemporary times – where everything is seen to be connected to everything else, complexity and uncertainty is the norm, and there is an increasing tendency towards chaotic behaviour – no single method can provide us with an adequate way of perceiving alternative futures. We need approaches that encompass different and divergent perspectives, concerns of diverse groups and cultures, and contradictory desires, hopes and aspirations for the future. Moreover, futures work on complex and ambiguous – or intractable – problems requires an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach. [[MLW:Integrating Futures Methodologies| '''(more...)''']]
 
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'''Crazy Foresight''' is a workshop to be organized in Bucharest,in Jamuary 2011. The coordinators are Prof. George Cairns and Prof. Ziauddin Sardar.
 
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‘Any useful idea about the future', says Jim Dator – considered by many to be grandfather of the field –  'should appear to be ridiculous'. Why? Because much of the future is going to be totally novel and has not been currently or previously experienced. Thus, anything useful that one can say about the future would appear to most people as quite crazy. Dator goes on to state, in his Seventh Law of Futures, that 'if futurists expect to be useful, they should expect to be ridiculed and for their ideas initially to be rejected'. In a slightly different vein, Sardar's First Law of Futures Studies states that 'futures studies are wicked'. They are wicked because they deal with 'wicked problems' which are by nature complex, chaotic, interconnected with in-built contradictions and uncertainty. But futures studies are also 'wicked in the sense that they are playfully open ended (like a 'scientific' discipline they do not offer a single solution but only possibilities). Their boundaries, such as they are, are totally porous and they are quite happy to borrow ideas and tools, whatever is needed, from any and all disciplines and discourses' [[MLW:Crazy Foresight| '''(more...)''']]
 
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Current revision as of 06:57, 10 October 2012

Current events

The Current events portal presents worldwide events in the field of Future Studies & Foresight. In particular, all the Mutual Learning Workshops organised during the Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education project, implementing the concept of Bucharest Dialogues, are presented in this section of the Foresight Wiki.
Members of the FORwiki Community are invited to state their willingness to participate in these events and cooperate for their organizing. If you have an idea for an event that you feel it would be of interest for the Foresight Community of Practice, create a FORwiki page, list it under On the community's agenda, and try to create an alliance with other members of the FORwiki Community around it.

Past events

Crazy Foresight

‘Any useful idea about the future', says Jim Dator – considered by many to be grandfather of the field – 'should appear to be ridiculous'. Why? Because much of the future is going to be totally novel and has not been currently or previously experienced. Thus, anything useful that one can say about the future would appear to most people as quite crazy. Dator goes on to state, in his Seventh Law of Futures, that 'if futurists expect to be useful, they should expect to be ridiculed and for their ideas initially to be rejected'. In a slightly different vein, Sardar's First Law of Futures Studies states that 'futures studies are wicked'. They are wicked because they deal with 'wicked problems' which are by nature complex, chaotic, interconnected with in-built contradictions and uncertainty. But futures studies are also 'wicked in the sense that they are playfully open ended (like a 'scientific' discipline they do not offer a single solution but only possibilities). Their boundaries, such as they are, are totally porous and they are quite happy to borrow ideas and tools, whatever is needed, from any and all disciplines and discourses'. So what some people may perceive as crazy may actually be highly useful. And wickedness – that highlights and plays with complexity and uncertainty with verve and wit – can actually open up new domains for the future, unlocking the 'unthought' of foresight and futures studies. Far from being irrelevant, crazy and playfully wicked ideas have a positive role in futures and foresight work and can be useful tools for investigating the outer boundaries of futures deliberations and perceptions. (more...)


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