Institute for the Future

Can Immersive Storytelling Rewire How We Imagine the Future? How can immersive art spark urgent optimism about the future? On October 2, Vision2030 premiered "The Lumisphere Experience" at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, with immersive foresight and design futures work from IFTF researchers Jane McGonigal and Jake Dunagan. Moving through three connected domes, visitors are guided by voice and visual storytelling, encountering sweeping projections and calming soundscapes designed to open space for collective dreaming. In the final dome, participants use a tablet with prompts and AI tools to envision an eco-future inspired by their journey. Alongside the experience, IFTF researchers will study whether the Lumisphere boosts hope, agency, and readiness to face uncertain futures. Read more about the Lumisphere installation from Visions2030 and IFTF. https://lnkd.in/gBEPAJRM @thelumisphereexperience @visions2030.studio #lumisphere #lumisphereexperience

IFTF expert foresight instructors Susanne Forchheimer, Rod Falcon, and Teffera G. Teffera are getting ready for the next IFTF Foresight Essentials training in person, in Alexandria, VA on Oct 14-16! If you are interesting in getting future-ready with practical tools that build your resilience in an unpredictable world, register for one of the last remaining seats! https://lnkd.in/gSk4rZKU #futureready #foresight #strategicforesight #futuresthinking

Join us on Oct 9 at 9am PT, for an informal overview of the IFTF Foresight Essentials Offerings, so you can discover the best training to help you launch your foresight practice, or build a deeper understanding of how the tools can take your further on your action roadmap. Register on zoom: https://lnkd.in/gSg7NxRb

We are looking forward to getting our hands on this exciting and insightful new book from authors Angela F. Williams, JD, M.Div, Jamais Cascio, and Bob Johansen later next month! Pre-orders are available now! https://lnkd.in/gFhBFb2p

New issue of the IFTF Newsletter today! The 3-Way Conversation You Don't Know You're Having, Can Immersive Storytelling Rewire How We Imagine the Future? and more Signals from the Future. Subscribe for new issues in your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gwVWBEpw

In a recent podcast, Institute for the Future Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen spoke with Gilad Berenstein to help us take a step back to consider the deeper impacts of technology on society, and ways that we can personally cope with the rapidly changing world. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dPbEshTg. Find more in Bob's new book, Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a World that Doesn’t Make Sense (pre-orders: https://lnkd.in/ghpUfPTF), from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. #strategicforesight #futurereadiness

"No matter what we call it, we are witnessing profound transformations in the fundamental structures of society. In these chaotic times we need to bring the long view back as a part of strategy lest we doom ourselves to endless improvised responses to an external world that seems out of our control. We need to marry improvisation and imagination to move beyond chaos." From IFTF Executive Director Marina Gorbis and IFTF Director, IFTF Foresight Essentials Lyn Jeffery, who co-authored "Strategy in the Age of Chaos: Retooling Foresight for Today's World." This essay still has us thinking about the 3 critical ways organizations need to change, to prepare for radically different futures. https://lnkd.in/gqKQTyU4 #strategicforesight #futurereadiness #futureready #futuresthinking

We are excited to join Members Development Company for the STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WORKSHOP: Alternative Futures 2035, coming up in Nashville, with Jake Dunagan, PhD, Institute for the Future Director of the Governance Futures Lab! We will explore four distinct, plausible futures, and the forces and signals of change that could shape them, in a series of scenario videos in "Futures Worth Imagining." #scenariobuilding #alternativefutures #futurereadiness #strategicforesight #futuresthinking