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For 15 years, APF presented the Most Significant Futures Works (MSFW) Awards to recognize rigorous and important projects that advance the field of futures studies and foresight. These awards pointed clients and the futures-curious towards understanding the nature of the work. In recent years, the futures and foresight field has evolved and grown tremendously. To reflect that growth, and in celebration of the APF's 20th anniversary, the original awards have been reimagined as the APF IF Awards—“What if” being the central question of our field. Many of the APF IF awards categories contain the DNA of the original MSFW Awards, while other categories have been created after extensive consideration in order to showcase the global, diverse, multidisciplinary, boundary-crossing and continuously evolving nature of the futures and foresight field and of the organization itself.
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APF IF AWARDS 2025
9 Key categories
The purpose of the IF Award key categories are to broaden from the academic constraints and the format descriptor, highlight the values of APF, and reflect our values about recognized awardees
International Collaboration
Impacts beyond political divides
Bringing Futures and Foresight to the World
participatory futures enhancing interconnectedness.
Practice and Applications
Real-world impact of futures and foresight thinking.
Deep Past, Deep Future
Works that promote long-term thinking.
Experiencing Futures Thinking
Artistic explorations of foresight and futures thinking
Inspirational Images of the Future
Expanding imagination & radical optimism.
Futures for the Majority World
Works influenced by cultures, locations, or mindsets outside the West.
Systems Approaches
Applying a systemic lens to futures work.
Advancement in the Field
Innovations in foresight tools & methodologies.
Behind the scene
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