a learning path in complexity and futures literacy — by Paul Beenen and Loes Damhof This blog is the summary of two key notes during the final conference of the HIPPA project in digital innovations at the Metropolia University in Helsinki, October 2022: We felt both key notes were complementary and an example of the necessity to fundamentally rethink our world view, our perception of knowledge and agency facing the great challenges around health and social care today. We will argue for this rethinking and for the capability of futures literacy as an essential asset in this process of learning.

by Loes Damhof “These times are urgent, let us slow down.” I often start my presentations or talks on Futures Literacy with this powerful Nigerian proverb, as quoted by my dear friend Bayo Akomolafe. …

Why we need the ways of the trickster to truly embrace uncertainty — “What is it like to be an insect?” was the title of a virtual lecture I attended a few days ago. Interested in a post-human centred approach to life and society, I was curious to see whether I would learn what it is like to be a different species. The…

By Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy in Higher Education, Hanze University of Applied Sciences — Why is anti-racism important in the field of Futures Studies and Foresight? This question, as proposed by colleagues Marianna Birmoser Ferreira-Aulu and Nicolas Balcom Raleigh in their insightful post Reflections on anti-racist futuring for climate action, seems redundant. Isn’t anti-racism important everywhere? But when we take a closer look at…

When it’s not only the climate that is in transition. — Elles Kazemier and Loes Damhof, Hanze UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy in Higher Education Maybe one of (many) lessons to be learnt from COVID 19 is how we were caught up in daily routines and how rarely we anticipated massive disruption as a game changer. Now, reluctantly getting used to ‘new…