Book
Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st Century
Riel Miller (Ed.)
UNESCO
Advanced
Open access
EN
Theory
Practice
Method
In substance, the book is about how people and institutions “use the future” in the present. Its structure moves from conceptual foundations to practice: an introduction on “Futures Literacy: transforming the future,” chapters on a Futures Literacy Framework, the discipline of anticipation, and collective intelligence knowledge creation, then a section on Futures Literacy Laboratories (FLLs) and case studies, followed by related methods such as gaming and wellbeing-oriented design.
The book is one of the foundational texts for the field. UNESCO defines futures literacy as the capability to understand how and why we use the future to prepare, plan, and engage with complexity and novelty. This book is relevant because it gives both the conceptual justification for that idea and the practical lab-based methods for developing it.
The book is one of the foundational texts for the field. UNESCO defines futures literacy as the capability to understand how and why we use the future to prepare, plan, and engage with complexity and novelty. This book is relevant because it gives both the conceptual justification for that idea and the practical lab-based methods for developing it.