Organised by Royal Society of Arts
Join us for the fourth event in "Re-claiming the Future" - an online discussion series on how to create change for the long term.
About this event
How we think about, and relate to, the future is framed by the narratives that shape our society. In this event, we explore how futures thinking can help us to navigate the spaces between presents, futures, fictions and realities -- providing a space for speculation, learnings and long-term visioning.
About the series:
Humanity stands at a critical juncture: our political, economic and societal decision making is focused on the short-term and is threatening the long-term survival of our species and our planet. The path we choose from here will determine the legacy we leave for future generations. Now, more than ever, we urgently need to expand our time perspectives – to think and plan for the long term so can we reclaim the future for coming generations.
Re-claiming the Future is a fortnightly online event series curated by RSA Oceania and the RSA Sustainability Network. For the full event listings or to book a series ticket, please visit the series page.
Speakers:
Dr Wendy Schultz is the Director of Infinite Futures: Foresight Research and Training. Wendy has over twenty-five years of foresight practice all around the world. She has provided emerging issues analyses and scenario explorations for the UK Health and Safety Executive, the UK Environment Agency, the Food Ethics Council, UK’s Local Government Association, and the UK National Policing Improvement Agency. Dr. Schultz earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Alternative Futures at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Dr Ligia (Licho) López López is a Caribbean, Queer, and Brown scholar of Indigenous background whose life begins in Abya Yala and moves through continental Africa, Europe, the US, and Australia. Licho’s research is located at the intersection of curriculum studies, Indigenous and race studies in education, and youth studies in the digital. he is the author of The Making of Indigeneity, Curriculum History, and the Limits of Diversity, Indigenous Future(s) and Learning(s): Taking Place, and Interrogating the Relations between Migration and Education in the South: Migrating Americas. With Gioconda Coello she leads the disturbing decolonizing movement @DDecolonization.
Gioconda Coello is a doctoral candidate from Ecuador in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her research is interdisciplinary and looks at the history of ideas in education and their relation to the politics of being, Indigenous, Brown and Black lives, and environmental education and religion in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Her work has appeared in Revista Asia-America Latina. She is co-editor of the coming book Indigenous Future(s) and Learning(s): Taking Place.
Dr Olivier Cotsaftis is a post-disciplinary designer navigating the spaces between presents, futures, fictions and realities. At RMIT University School of Design, his research addresses climate resilience and social innovation in urban heterotopias. Ollie is also the founder and creative director of future ensemble studio and the co-founder of Speculative Futures Melbourne—the Melbourne Chapter of The Design Futures Initiative.