CEF is a Member of the CSIRO-ASEAN Foresight for Science and Technology Management Group
The Center for Engaged Foresight is a member network and contributor to the CSIRO, Australian Aid, and ASEAN Foresight for Science and Technology Management Group. Prof. Shermon Cruz participated as a resource person and expert participant to provide expert foresight advice for ASEAN bodies in setting regional directions and priorities specifically from an STI lens. The intent of the project
Prof. Cruz speaks at the NAST 44th Annual Scientific Meeting
Prof. Shermon Cruz, Director and Chief Futurist of the Center for Engaged Foresight, speaks about futures and foresight at the National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST PHL) 44th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) on July 13 in Manila with the theme, "PAGTANAW 2050: Agham Tungo sa Mabuting Kinabukasan (FORESIGHT 2050: Science for a Sustainable Future). In 2021, the Department
Engaged Foresight listed as a Global Go Think Tank
As one of the Philippines and Asia’s top think tanks, the Center for Engaged Foresight was recently listed as a Global Go Think Tank by the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 Think Tank and Civil Society Program. According to the Lauder Institute website, “The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University
CEF’s Welcome to the Future Premier
Welcome to the Future! The Center for Engaged Foresight’s futures literacy teaser premiered this month and is now on Youtube. The Center for Engaged Foresight is a premier global futures literacy and strategic foresight innovation hub. Established to advance a spectrum of Futures strategies and methodologies, we aim to intensify the aptitude of persons, communities, organizations, institutions, and society’s capacity to anticipate, innovate
What is Futures Thinking? Why Futures Literacy?
Futures thinking is not about crystal ball gazing or prophesizing to predict the future but rather it is a transdisciplinary or meta-approach to studying possible, probable, and preferable futures. Futures thinking is a rational, creative, reflective, and contemplative process of engaging citizens to be aware of and question their ways of knowing the future to create contingencies, alternatives, and strategies to
Are your future visions at risk? Embedding risk and resilience thinking in futures thinking workshop
This seminar accentuates how-to steps and why risk and resilience thinking is critical to futures studies and thinking workshops and events.