2.
THE
CO-DESIGN
The brainstorming conference Resilience
Frontiers 2019 kick-started Resilience Frontiers.
The Korean Government hosted this launchpad
brainstorming conference during the Korea Global
Adaptation Week, from 8 to 12 April, 2019. During
the conference, over 100 visionary thinkers and
interdisciplinary thought leaders from around the
world applied a tailor-made foresight methodology
to envision the contours of a climate-resilient
world beyond 2030.
The brainstorming sessions and plenary
discussions contributed to generating collective
visions of a post-2030 world that fosters the
climate resilience of individuals, societies,
economies and ecosystems. Those visions
provided the raw material to define cross-cutting
objectives and possible pathways as a basis for the
roadmapping exercise.
Resilience Frontiers 2019 also enabled the
building of a strong community of practice and
intention among the 103 participants, many of
whom do not work directly on the issue of climate-
resilience. Participants were given the opportunity
to enhance their understanding of the implications
of future climate change impacts, as well as to build
partnerships to address those impacts collaboratively.
The foresight methodology applied at Resilience
Frontiers 2019 was co-designed by the UNFCCC
secretariat, UNESCO, the foresight consultancy
futur/io, as well as other advisory partners
including, 4CF, the gannaca global think tank group,
Exponential Minds, and the Hanze University of
Applied Sciences.
The methodology was tailored to this brainstorming
conference, with the objectives of building on
participants’ complementary expertise, and
of maximizing collective capacity for strategic
foresight, in order to:
Ensure that the evolution of existing and upcoming
frontier technologies (i.e. artificial intelligence,
including autonomous systems, blockchain,
the Internet of things; biotechnology; satellite
technology), and their potential environmental,
socio-political and ethical opportunities and risks, are
addressed in envisioning long-term global resilience;
Enable foresight-centred collective thinking
among experts in those frontier technologies,
purveyors and practitioners of the emerging
sustainability ethos (including indigenous peoples)
a. The brainstorming conference
b. Co-design in practice