and experts who specialize in ‘basic needs’ (i.e. water,
food, health, nature and human security);
Deliberate on the most effective institutional
setups to foster an optimal enabling environment for
transformative and regenerative climate resilience
beyond 2030, by addressing the necessary shifts,
retooling and transformation of finance, education,
international law and governance, human habitats,
as well as values.
Elements of the UNESCO’s well-established
Futures Literacy Laboratory (FLL) action-learning
framework and of future/io’s Moonshot approach
were combined to co-design a strategic foresight
methodology that facilitated the expression of
collective intelligence.
The UNESCO’s FLL action-learning framework
is based on anticipatory systems theory. The
framework enables participants to discover and
specify, by moving from tacit to explicit and from
conventional to newly invented, the anticipatory
assumptions and related narratives used to perceive
and plan for the future. Since we live in a complex
universe, we need to respond to phenomena that
pop into our existence to usher in new possibilities
that were previously unimaginable. The FLL action-
learning framework helps build anticipatory systems
to embrace this complexity, and to better ‘use-the-
future’ in planning for it.
The futur/io’s Moonshot approach uses different
exercises and canvases to help participants
define individual or collective long-term projects
that will generate massive financial value, create
positive social and environmental impacts aligned
with the underlying objectives of the Sustainable
Development Goals for millions of people, and
mobilize emerging drivers of change, including
breakthrough technology. The resulting Moonshot
projects support visionary leadership by creating a
bold vision of the future for a community built around
common values.
Besides, in order to boost the ‘out-of-the-box’
or ‘no-box’ thinking of participants, as well as build
a community, innovative features were introduced
to produce a unique human experience. Inspired by
the gannaca global think tank group’s experiential
formats, those features included evolving room
set ups, singular aesthetics in communication
products, facilitating online networking, enabling
the participation of artists, projecting artwork in the
conference room, and organizing guided mindfulness
sessions and Zen meditation.
We have a window
of opportunity
in the next few
years to do some
transformative
change in order to
prevent the world
from entering into
a period where we
cannot handle the
impacts of climate
change. This has to
be done from now!.
Youssef Nassef
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