Increasing Your Futures Literacy

Presentation by Annette L Gardner. The pandemic was a wake-up call to develop new ways of thinking addressing challenges that will emerge in the future. Many of us wrestle with uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in our lives. Foresight or working with the future is a way of thinking about alternative future scenarios. This talk presents foresight concepts and tools. Annette L Gardner is a political scientist with training in futures studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She conducts workshops at professional conferences and works with organizations to evaluate their foresight initiatives.