Six Pillars of Foresight Mapping the future Anticipating
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Six Pillars of Foresight • Mapping the future • Anticipating the future • Timing the future • Deepening the future • Creating alternatives • Transforming the future
DEEPENING THE FUTURE Causal layered analysis
• Litany: - visible - disconnected news events • Systemic: - social, technological, economic, environmental and political causes • Discourses: - stakeholders - ideologies - worldviews • Myths-metaphors: - stories - legends - myths of trauma and transcendence
Causal Layered Analysis Social causes Newspaper headlines, superficial, common public perceptions Public Superficial Litany STEEP analysis Cultural/social/religious perspective or worldview Myth Emotional, images or deep meanings Unconscious Deep Meaning Worldview
Causal Layered Analysis Level Issue / Problem Solution Who is responsible to fix it Source Litany (Visible) Problem seems too difficult to solve Short term approaches Governments / I cant do anything about it Television/ Newspapers Systemic (Causes) Problem because of short term historical factors or it is a process or system issue Integrated approaches – systemic solutions Partnerships between sectors of society – Government plus industries Policy Journals, editorials Worldview Constituted by frame of analysis, deep structures of belief & assumption Transform, rethink self and others, change paradigm Writers, philosophers, those outside the dominant language Peripheral journals, Myth / Metaphor Constituted core myths / stories Alternative stories Collective unconscious often guided by visions Work of artists, visionaries,
CLA “real” Litany R E A L I T Y Social system & structure Worldview Myth & Metaphor “imagined” Short term TIME Long term
s Em plo y ee me na ge ma fic ial Of Un of fic ial nt CLA - Stakeholders L O N G T E R M
ns er co ft Le ee n Gr Fe mi ni st va tiv e CLA - Ideologies L O N G T E R M
ian nf uc Co no ige Ind am ic Isl W es t us CLA - Worldviews L O N G T E R M
de r mo st. Po de rn Mo e-m od Pr An cie nt er n n CLA - Epistemes Conventional Epistemes L O N G T E R M
METAPHORS OF THE FUTURE
- Computer science component 1
- Future simple continuous perfect
- Future perfect continuous example
- Technology foresight
- Strategic foresight initiative
- God of foresight
- Innovation foresight
- Innovations foresight
- 2. 'foresight is deeply rooted within intuitive mind
- The global foresight group
- "eit food foresight"
- Six pillars of idea
- 6 pillars of character education
- Six pillars of ergonomics