Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is celebrating it's 50th anniversary and is organizing an international symposium on research at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm on 6 May 2015. Several international researchers

This issue is about unexpected futures in five separate areas: demography, medicine, the environment, superpowers and technology. Contents Is it harder to foresee the future nowadays?Arne Jernelöv ImaginArne Jernelöv

If we wish to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse and equitable world, we urgently need a diversity of perspectives to imagine – and to build – better futures. The problems we face today arBased on experiments made at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, this presentation will show how positive futures can be prototyped to inspire change. Using key techniques, processes, methodologies, mindsets and tools, you too can become an active participant in shaping preferred futures!Welcome to a seminar with Marcela Sabino, a foresight strategist, creative director and innovation designer.This seminar is organized by Positive Future and is free upon registration. .

The Future as a Political Idea - Professor Jonathan White

Introduction to Jonathan White's new book In the Long Run: the Future as a Political Idea. A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the current climate crisis.

The Paris Institute for Advanced Study and the 2100 Fondation in partnership with the Institute for Futures Studiesare launching the first Positive Future competition in order to encourage the elaboration

On several key issues, societies around the world are at crossroads. How can climate change be addressed? How will democracy evolve in the world? How will technological breakthroughs shape our lives? H

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Jonathan White, Professor of Politics, London School of Economics. -- Please note that thi

Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 3, 2006 Demographic projections indicate a considerable ageing of the European population. Part of the ageing is due to increasing lo

The institute is primarily funded through a grant from the state budget and external research funding from government and private research financiers, awarded in competition with other research organi

"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled