strategy
Creating desired futures
Synonyms:
Creating imaginative vision of the world's futureStimulating capacity to visualize a creative future
Creating preferred future
Creating future needs model
Creating better futures
Claim:
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday. Our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. This life is the creation of our minds. (The Buddha). Narrower:
Providing world visionArticulating future visionForcing projection of future resource needs Facilitates:
Supplying futuric demandsTrading in futures marketsProviding for future production needs Facilitated by:
Investing in the futureLearning about the futureHolding futures workshopsApologizing to future generationsConducting social invention workshopsResearching macroeconomic modelling Problems:
Inhibited capacity to visualize a creative futureStatic social relations inhibiting vision of the future
Unchallenging world vision
Values:
VisionCapacityUncreativeOvercapacityUndercapacityUnstimulatingUndesirablenessOverstimulating Organizations:
World Futures Studies Federation References:
Korten, David C: Getting to the 21st Century: voluntary action and the global agendaJungk, Robert: Future Workshops: how to create desirable futuresCosgrove W and Rijsberman, F: World Water Vision: making water everybody's business Subjects:
Amenities → Living conditionsCybernetics → Modelling
Psychology → Imagery
Policy-making → Future
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
