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Brainstorming artifacts from the future is meant to be both imaginative and useful. To help students thoughtfully consider what objects might fill in their future scenarios, teachers can use this structured framework for brainstorming product ideas.

The Toolkit is built around 5 superheroes that actually represent the 5 dimensions of our Future Consciousness, as researched by the team at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku.

The Big History Project is not your average History course: it begins 13.7 billion years ago and ends in the future.

This book suggests that creative methods involving stories and art can help educators to address the challenging topics of climate change and peace via new channels that inspire their learners and underline the role of each individual, with their specific talents and world views, in engaging with the crucial questions of the younger generation.

Empathy and human-centered design can help create better futures and solve complex problems.

El Futures Bazaar es una reunión creativa o de diseño donde las personas transforman objetos cotidianos en “artefactos del futuro” únicos para provocar, divertir e inspirar a los demás. Cada participante ayuda a imaginar y producir estos artefactos futuros, y cada artefacto cuenta una historia.

As part of their efforts to bring human-centered design to the social sector, IDEO created this resource to provide insight into their processes, mindsets, and approaches for design.

Since 1974, Future Problem Solving has engaged learners in creative and critical thinking to develop a vision for the future and build leadership skills.

Johnathan Nalder is a foresight educator and advocate in Brisbane, Australia. He has been teaching and developing creativity tools in schools for years. This year, he presented the 11th version the Future Ready Framework.

Future Search is a facilitation process that brings groups together to talk about individual and collective pasts, presents, and possible futures.

FutureCast helps team explore risks and opportunities in an election context by engaging various stakeholders in thought-provoking and inclusive discussion.

The Futures Research Methodology is the largest collection of futures tools and methods ever published.

Futures Thinking for Social Foresight is a comprehensive resource that introduces basic principles of futures studies for educators and students

The Futures Toolkit provides an accessible introduction to some of key foresight techniques, such as analyzing drivers of change, developing scenarios, and visioning.

Despite enormous amounts of data about how our world is changing and unprecedented access to it, our society still seems to be blind to what's happening around us.

Governance for the Future is a set of cards meant to help us investigate, re-think, design, and prototype new governments and social systems to match the challenges of today.

Wendy Schultz is one of the most accomplished foresight educators today. She has assembled and shared her most useful tools for facilitating foresight sessions.

The Institute for the Future's Artifact Engine is a quick and fun activity to help students think creatively about alternative futures and the artifacts we might find in them. The tool includes both analog and digital versions and is an accessible introduction to futures thinking.

Chris Thompson is a cartoonist, consultant and public speaker on creativity. He was asked to talk to a fifth grade class some years ago, and he was blown away with their natural creativity.

The World Futures Studies' Federation's LEALA Pedagogical Resources is a rich database of books, articles, and videos all meant to help educators bring the future to life with their students.

This card game, which focuses on the future of mobility and transportation, allows participants to envision various combinations of wide-ranging, unpredictable and disparate issues and find opportunities for better futures.

What advice would warriors have for workers? Intellectuals for warriors? Capitalists for intellectuals? These questions drive the role-playing Sarkar Game and reveal important social dynamics inherent in society and crucial for understanding change and the future

The Futures Bazaar is a design jam or creative gathering where people transform everyday objects into unique “artifacts from the future” to provoke, amuse, and inspire one another. Every participant helps imagine and produce these future artifacts, and every artifact tells a story.

The Thing From The Future is a card game with a deck of 108 cards playable by individuals or teams of two to six people. The object of the game is to come up with

Three Horizons is a simple and intuitive framework for thinking about the future. At its simplest we can see it as describing three patterns of activity and how their interactions play out over time.