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WFSF Accreditation
The University of Houston Graduate Foresight Program received a Certificate of Accreditation from the World Futures Studies Federation at the Federation's World Conference in Paris [...]
UH Foresight at the WFSF 50th Anniversary Conference
Guest post from UH Foresight Activation Lab Director Juli Rush This past week I was lucky to spend with my University of Houston Foresight [...]
UH Foresight Student Named NGFP Fellow
My project seeks to cultivate transformative and adaptive leadership among Sangguniang Kabataan leaders (SKs) and other young Filipino government officials by capacitating them [...]
August Foresight Boot Camp
Congratulations to the August 2023 Professional Certificate in Foresight grads! Our in-person certificate participants are immersed in Foresight for a week of intensive training. Myriad [...]
Houston Foresight students winning 2023 APF Awards
The 2023 APF Student Recognition awards were announced and, once again, we had some winners!
Big Presence for Houston at the APF’s 20th Anniversary Event in Washington D.C.
More than 20 current and former Houston Foresight students and instructors participated in the Association of Professional Futurists recent 20th Anniversary event conducted in Washington D.C.
A Forest Futurist’s Fulbright in Finland
By David N. Bergston Dave Bengston (left with Teppo Hujala) is an alum of our Professional Certificate program and collaborated with Houston Foresight on setting [...]
Houston Archetype Technique: Introducing the HAT
For several years we and our audiences at the Houston Foresight program thought we saw likely patterns in how domains evolve over time using archetypes [...]
The Lure of Big Data
Contributer: Jeremy Wilken Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash In many modern, technocratic nations (like the USA where I live), the rise of [...]
The Future of Death is in Your Backyard
Contributer: Sara Fogarty Last year as part of the Houston Foresight Masters program I took a class on Design Futures. Our final assignment was [...]
From blah blah blah to A-HA! — Using Experiential Futures to Tell Tangible Stories
Contributer: Jillian Humphreys Figure 1-Lucia Cuba, Articulo 6 As I’ve made my way through the foresight program and become a newbie practitioner in [...]
Everyone’s A Little Bit Biased
Contributor: Mushfiqa Jamaluddin Ask any futurist and they’ll agree that to do our work well, we need to be aware of our biases to ensure [...]