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By Sylvia Gallusser A study conducted by psychologists at the University of Edinburgh found that individuals who regularly played...

By David Jonker Foresight is often conducted in private, behind an organization’s castle walls. But increasingly, that’s the wrong...

By Lindsey Krummell Futures is increasingly concerned with opening up the practice beyond specialists in government, academia, and large...

In each issue of Compass, we offer a profile of one of the APF’s board of directors. In this issue, we profile Abril Chimal. Q. Where do...

By Tony Diggle Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles focusing on the upcoming United Nations’ Summit of the Future conference....

By Tracey Follows At the start of 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day (IWD), I published a series of interviews with female...

By Richard Hames and Patricia Lustig Language, specifically our ability to construct and communicate our reality through language, is the...

By Wendy Schultz and Tianna Brand The livestock of the past and present include pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, chicken, ducks,...

By Samista Jugwanth Persephone, the ancient Greek Goddess of Spring (and agriculture), was equally famous for her role as Hades’s Queen...

By Grace Okubo Community gardens have become ubiquitous features of urban landscapes. Initially conceived to combat food insecurity, they...

By Jeremy Nulik, Julienne DeVita and Matthew Jensen For as much as we try to move on, piece our lives together and soothe the fears of...

By Estefania Simon-Sasyk The "bottom-up approach" resonates with the ideals of participatory democracy and community empowerment....

By Quinault Childs With the explosion in accessibility of generative AI, one thing we’ve noticed at the Institute for the Future (IFTF)...

By Fisayo Oyewale As our world grapples with a growing population, economic volatility, and the looming threat of climate change, the...

By Sohail Inayatullah, Ivana Milojevic, and Hafeez Zainal Harnessing science, technology, and innovation (STI) is key to meeting the...

By Ben Holt Food fuels everything that humans do. The calories we consume energise our bodies, and eating is deeply connected to culture...

In March and April, we launched our new member-driven initiatives and are organizing the different working groups.

Sometimes, to think of possible futures, you need to first acknowledge the past and release people from them. Futures practitioners, or...

Organizations are founded in response to a past that is less than desirable. A group of individuals with a stake in a shared vision of...

I was exposed to futures studies and foresight as I researched literature for my dissertation. The Human and Organizational Systems...