In-person program

23^th October, MONDAY 24^th October, TUESDAY 25^th October, WEDNESDAY 26^th October, THURSDAY 27^th October, FRIDAY

CET

Cowork

Boost 1

TBA

9:00

10:00

13:00

14:00

16:00

boost1

10:00-13:00

Developing Your Foresight Evaluation Capacity

Annette L Gardner

Session Chair

cowork

09:00-13:00

Workshop in Futures Skills

Dr. Faisal Yousif Al Anezi

Session Chair

Dr. Muamar Salameh

Dr. Edyta Wolny-Abouelwafa

Thomas F. Connolly

cowork

14:00-16:00

Playing the ITT Game to Imagine WFSF 2043 Conference Topics

Session Chair

CET

Cowork

Imagine 2

SKEMA

Insign

8:30

11:00

11:30

12:30

13:00

13:30

14:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

insign

17:00-18:30

WFSF Program Accreditation Council Social event

Session Chair

Session Chair

Luke van der Laan

Session Chair

cowork

11:00-13:00

Academic Futurist Seminar

Luke van der Laan

Session Chairs

imagine2

14:00-16:00

Eleonora Barbieri Masini Seminar

Masini Seminar Women in Futures

Session Chair

Women empowerment and Futures Studies research on the field: the legacy of Eleonora Barbieri Masini

Carolina Facioni

Jeanne Belisle Lombardo

Leena-Maija Lauren

Tatiana Bernal Sanchez

Iryna Gerasymenko

Mara Di Berardo

Ivana Milojevic

Margarita De Antonano

imagine2

11:30-14:00

Performative Postnormal Times (PNT), v3: A Workshop Session for Empowering Futures

Session Chair

Session Chair

imagine2

16:00-18:00

Felting Futures/Futures Felt: Practicing Thinking-Making-Doing

Stefanie Ollenburg

Workshop facilitator

Roumiana Gotseva

Workshop facilitator

skema

08:30-12:30

Student event

Christophe Bisson

Session Chair

cowork

13:30-15:00

Future of Sex & Intimacy 2052 AN EXPERIENTIAL FUTURES EXHIBIT

Session Chair

Session Chair

Session Chair

Mushfiqa Jamaluddin

Session Chair

insign

18:30-20:00

WFSF Conference reception

Erik F. Øverland

Session Chairs

CET

Inspire

Cowork

Imagine 2

Imagine 3

Lab

9:00

9:10

9:15

9:20

9:35

9:45

9:50

10:00

10:30
(Coffee)

11:00

11:30

12:00

13:00
(Lunch)

14:00

15:00

16:00
(Coffee)

16:30

17:00

18:00

inspire

09:20-09:35

Opening Speech

Erik F. Øverland

Keynote speaker

inspire

11:00-12:00

Transforming Future Studies: Exploring Accreditation’s Impact

Luke van der Laan

inspire

12:00-13:00

Five Decades of Future Studies: Lessons from 50 Years of PhD Dissertations

cowork

11:00-13:00

Rewired futures: searching for social factors in understanding the change

Markku Wilenius

Session Chair

Futures in Transition

Efficacy: a missing link between social arrangements and future thinking

Future Rhythms

Dr. Derek Woodgate

Rethinking “Identity” in a Polarized Society

Thasanawan Boonmavichit

Narratives from the Future of TRUTH 2040

Is the sociology of the future the future of sociology?

imagine2

11:00-13:00

The Multilayered Thinking about the Future

Session Chair

Transdisciplinarity and its Ontology of Liminality

Layers, levels and horizons – Unifying the perspective of Time and Timing of change

Beyond the Obvious: Unveiling the Hidden Dimension of Distortions in Futures

Mushfiqa Jamaluddin

Abdulrahman Alsulaimi

An Employability-based Approach in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Herbert Salazar dos Santos

Adult learners on their way to futures: observing changes in thinking and acting patterns in futures guidance studies

The future of academic work in a more-than- human world

Kyriaki Papageorgiou

imagine3

11:00-13:00

Navigating Liminal Futures: Global Perspectives and Paradigms

John A. Sweeney

Session Chair

Liminality in global relations: A New World Order

Siv Helen Hesjedal

The view and research methodology of future schools: A Chinese perspective

Fear of the Future: Foresight Education versus Conspiracy Theories

Thomas F. Connolly

The continuing story of the future as a liminal ethical space for the present

Introducing the Framework for Alternative Futures

lab

11:00-11:30

Sustainable Political Futures and Governance: Democracy vs Autocracy, and War vs Peace

inspire

15:00-16:00

INSPIRE: 25 October 15:00 – 16:00

Maya Van Leemput

Session Chair

Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight

John A. Sweeney

Roumiana Gotseva

cowork

14:00-16:00

Grand Challenges and Realities of Inclusive Communities Towards Common Futures

Session Chair

Reimagining Inclusion: Exploring Alternative Futures for Organizations and People with Disabilities

Narcis Heraclide

Building a Staircase to Protopia

Eva Tomás Casado

Preferred Future School as the Incubator of Enhancing Urban Well-Being Life Theory, Method and Practice

FORESEE, 4C Accelerator – Creative, Collaborative and Convergent Communities Journey and tools to accelerate the coordination of stakeholders of cities and/or territories around their common goals and needs

Lala Deheinzelin

Characteristics and Cultural Implications of Futures Literacy of Chinese Teachers: A qualitative analysis based on the Futures Literacy Laboratories

imagine2

14:00-16:00

Strengthening human agency to create preferred futures

Annette L Gardner

Session Chair

Anticipating stakeholders’ engagement and capabilities: Insights from climate change adaptation scenarios

Fabrice Roubelat

Anne Marchais-Roubelat

Minds that could see futures: engaging new generations in a Future Literacy project

Francesca Odella

Youth futures: from fear to hope

The challenge of decolonization: Futures Literacy and linguistic appropriation

In the Purpose Economy strategic communication professionals need futures research

inspire

18:00-18:30

Liminality: from a world to another

Fabienne Goux-Baudiment

Speaker

cowork

17:00-18:00

Science Fiction and Future Worlds and Cosmologies

Thomas Lombardo

Session Chair

Toward Alien Cosmologies, a future world- building approach

Raphaële Bidault-Waddington

The looming futures – The new near future fiction in media

The Future of Aeronautics: How Science Fiction Builds New Narratives of Global Mobility

imagine2

17:00-18:30

Thinking in complexity – Learning to face possible futures for building better futures

Carolina Facioni

Session Chair

Enhancing Futures skills: examples of teaching and assessment

Carmen Tomás Martínez

Fusion Teaching: examining post-pandemic hybridity as an approach to equitable Higher Education futures in a disrupted world

Experiencing liminality

Séverine Larrouy

Learning to Love Walking against the Wind: The interface of complexity, chaos, and liminality.

lab

17:00-18:30

Exploring liminality in human responsibilities for the future

Narcis Heraclide

Anne Marchais-Roubelat

Fabrice Roubelat

lab

11:30-13:00

Living Experiences of Democracy in 2073

imagine3

14:00-16:00

What we need and what we want

Andreas Ligtvoet

Session Chair

Reimagining Wellbeing: Exploring Recognition Theory through Speculative Design and Immersive Technologies

Karina Vissonova

Future Food Court: An Experiential Futures Approach

Idil Gaziulusoy

Ecological Speculations – Narratives for the Futures

Regenerating Resilience in the Built Environment: Themes of Capacity Development

Lassi Tähtinen

Does futures consciousness make us more environmentally friendly?

Sanna Ahvenharju

Futures of Commercial Fishing: Driving Change in the Most Dangerous Profession

lab

14:00-16:00

The Game of the Great Transition

Fabienne Goux-Baudiment

Session Chair

Transition and futures literacy – case studies on gaming the futures

Tamás Gáspár

inspire

14:00-15:00

INSPIRE: 25 October 14:00 – 15:00

Luke van der Laan

Session Chair

Strategic leadership theory and futures studies methods: The development of scenarios of employee engagement in Singapore by 2030

Luke van der Laan

Futures Literacy in Organizations

Deborah A. Schreiber

inspire

10:00-10:30

(Dis)abling Futures

inspire

16:30-17:00

Vigie Report 2023, Human Beings and Being Human in 2050. Imaginaries, Societies and Individuals in the West

Cécile Désaunay

Keynote speaker

inspire

17:00-18:00

Exploring new perspectives for the future of Early Childhood and Future Communities

His Excellency Thamer AlQasimi

Speaker

imagine3

17:00-18:30

Futuribles workshop (Vigie Report)

Pierre-Antoine Marti

Session Chair

inspire

09:50-10:00

Futuribles keynote

Keynote speaker

inspire

09:35-09:45

UNESCO keynote

Mariagrazia Squicciarini

Keynote speaker

inspire

09:00-09:10

Conference opening

inspire

09:10-09:15

Welcome by the Master of Ceremony

Kwamou Eva Feukeu

Master of Ceremony

inspire

09:15-09:20

Welcome by École des Ponts Business School

Keynote speaker

inspire

09:45-09:50

UNESCO French National Committee keynote

Keynote speaker

20:00

CET

Inspire

Cowork

Imagine 2

Imagine 3

Lab

9:00

9:30

10:00

11:00
(Coffee)

11:15

13:00
(Lunch)

14:00

15:00

15:20

16:00
(Coffee)

16:30

17:00

18:30

imagine2

10:00-11:00

From Anticipation to Foresight: Strategic Learning, Creativity, and Amplifying the Curriculum

Thomas F. Connolly

Session Chair

Bridging anticipation and strategic planning: case of forward-looking reform in a Finnish university of applied sciences

A Step Towards Decolonising Futures Literacy with Object Inspired Thinking

Jacqueline Dutton

Liminal space (Press & Play) in the curriculum leads to more meaningful creative concepts

Monique van Hest

inspire

11:15-13:00

Gaming the Futures

Session Chair

Let’s Play! The Black Box Policymaking Game

Freyja Van Den Boom

Interactive speculative futures – the benefits of gamebooks

Kacper Nosarzewski

Games and Foresight: Unlocking Strategic Insight Through Play

John A. Sweeney

cowork

11:15-13:00

Capturing the future of everything (from Chinese schools to Future Studies) with a creative toolbox (foresight indicators, quantum mechanics, traditional story telling…)

Jean-Eric Aubert

Session Chair

Development of a Foresight Indicator Framework for the Futures of Chinese Schools and a Description of Its Contents

Hindsight to Foresight: an Analysis of Future Events in EJFR in 10 Years

Alan de Oliveira Lyra

Development tendencies, turning points, and possible future research directions of futures studies

Tamás Kristóf

When Looking for Futures is What’s Looking

And the Canary called out to the Raven: a Gaswéñdah (Two- Row Wampum Treaty) approach to the futures of sensemaking with non-human life

Suzanne Katsi’Tsiarihshion Brant

cowork

10:00-11:00

Impact of New Technologies on the Field of Futures Studies

Christophe Bisson

Session Chair

Digital Twins and Futures Studies: Exploring Applications and Possible Developments

Daniela Porpiglia

Beyond Techno-Solutionism: Futures of Futures Studies in the Arab World

Muhammad Alaraby

Robots in Japan: their presence and future

cowork

14:00-15:00

Science and Technology Meet Consciousness and the Self

Session Chair

Quantified Becoming in Simulated Realities: Navigating Consciousness, Spirituality, and Human Evolution in the Digital Age

Elizabeth Strickler

Harnessing the potential of neuroscience and neurodiversity

Christopher H. Cordey

Weak signals of change: human intelligence or/ and artificial intelligence?

lab

10:00-11:00

An Accelerative Evolutionary History of Science Fiction from Ancient Times to the Present

Thomas Lombardo

lab

11:15-13:00

Future Spatial narratives

Dr. Derek Woodgate

Session Chair

Foresight and influence, a new nexus?

Future-proofing mobility: the Remobilise approach

Spatially-explicit Futures Scenarios for the Rio Negro Basin (Brazilian Amazonia) in 2040

Marianna Birmoser Ferreira-Aulu

Disruptive technologies in the energy sector

András Márton PhD

The Future of the Future: Transhumanism, Immortality and the Technological Singularity.

lab

14:00-15:00

Transpersonal Visions and the Futures of Humanity

Dr Stephen Wilson

imagine3

14:00-15:20

Transforming leadership

Session Chair

Liminal Leadership and Convening Spaces for Change

Anticipation practices and the development of essential skills for CSR

Sylvaine Mercuri Chapuis

New Paradigms and NextGen Leadership in Navigating the Future

Dr. Seren Dalkiran

imagine3

11:15-13:00

Peace Futures in the Works of Johan Galtung

Cesar Villanueva

Session Chair

Futures Studies in Conflicts and Peace Processes

Exploring the Liminal Spaces between Futures Unconsciousness and Futures Consciousness: a journey from traumatisation to empowerment among marginalised youth in Kenya

Imperfect Polylogues in Practice

Maya Van Leemput

imagine3

10:00-11:00

Emerging Foresight Methodologies

Erik F. Øverland

Session Chair

The Evolution of Foresight Methodology

Integrating Evaluation in Foresight Practice

Annette L Gardner

The weakness in weak signals

imagine2

11:15-13:00

IMAGINE2: 26 October 11:15-13:00

Session Chair

By the Future, for the Future: representing future generations in democratic bodies

Andreas Ligtvoet

Prognostic Profiling as Preventive Policy

Blagovesta Ilieva Nikolova

The Anthropocene’s Antidote: Local Governments as the Architects of Post-Anthropocentric Urban Landscapes

Conceptualising the relational foundations of future-oriented agency

Juuli Huuhanmäki

Disruptions and transformative foresight

Markku Wilenius

imagine2

14:00-15:20

Creating Spaces Among the Stars

Session Chair

Forth to the stars or back to the caves? Kardashev vs. Malthus

Pitfalls and opportunities of the space economy between now and 2050 and beyond

Future landscapes of work

Living in a City outside Our Mother Earth

inspire

17:00-18:30

WFSF General Assembly: 26 October 17:00-18:30

inspire

15:20-16:00

WFSF 50 – The Spirit of WFSF

Erik F. Øverland

Tamás Gáspár

Session Chairs

inspire

16:30-17:00

Closing Ceremony: 26 October 16:30-7:00

inspire

15:00-15:20

Identity: the existential issue of the century

Speaker

inspire

10:00-11:00

Future Global Orders

Siv Helen Hesjedal

Session Chair

Session Chair

Dr. Derek Woodgate

inspire

09:30-10:00

Ubunto Futurism

Keynote speaker

inspire

14:00-15:00

Queer futures – contested knowledges in liminal space-time

Session Chair

Transformative futures through collective creative practices

Juliette Grossmann

Anticipatory reflexive praxis: Living the weird and strange

Roumiana Gotseva

Strange vibes and weird frequencies: queering the discourse of sustainability and energy futures

inspire

09:00-09:30

The Global Significance of Chinese Way of Modernization

Dr. Jin Canrong

Keynote speaker

CET

Cowork

Imagine2

9:00

10:00

11:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

15:30

16:00

17:00

18:00

cowork

15:30-17:00

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring the Arguments (Pro and Con) About Intelligent Life in the Universe, With Implications for Humanity’s Future

Thomas Lombardo

Session Chair

Session Chair

cowork

14:00-15:30

COWORK: 27 October 14:00 – 15:30

The End of the World: Warnings and Options from Science Fiction

Jean Paul Pinto

An evolutionary view on the future of humanity and urban life: The search for resilient future utopias with the support of cyberpunk science-fiction

Raphaële Bidault-Waddington

Jean Paul Pinto

imagine2

14:00-15:00

Futures Literacy & Foresight at UNESCO

Session Chair

cowork

10:00-13:00

Scenarios and Narratives for the 21st Century

Jean-Eric Aubert

imagine2

16:00-17:00

Workshop: When the Future Dies: Transitional Grief & Futures’ Death

cowork

09:00-10:00

Queer futures – meet the liminal bearers of the new!

Josepha Waldhecker

Session Chairs

imagine2

09:00-10:00

Games and Foresight: Unlocking Strategic Insight Through Play

Keynote speaker

imagine2

10:00-11:00

Transformative Futures of Peace and Work – Paradoxes and Polycomplexities

imagine2

11:00-13:00

China Society for Futures Studies: Future Opportunities for Integrated Development Between China and the World

Shaping the Future of Education through Technological Innovations: A Focus on China

Professor Yang Wang, BS, MS, PhD

imagine2

15:00-16:00

Exploring Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) as a Method for Creating More Inclusive and Nuanced Scenarios

cowork

17:00-18:00

Gaming the Future of AI

Gaming the Future of AI

Rooms Inspire, Cowork, Imagine 2, Imagine 3, Lab, Boost 1 are located at the main conference location, Ecole des Ponts Business School.

Insign is a separate location, 20 mins walk from École: Agence Insign, 21 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75011 Paris, France. If you prefer to walk together, we gather in front of Ecole at 16:30 and 18:00, half an hour before the events at Insign.

The program is subject to change.