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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 [...]
Challenges Worth Anticipating as a Gen-Z Futurist
Here’s three challenges worth anticipating for both young, aspiring futurists and those invested in youth foresight as well as how the UH Foresight program addressed them.
2023 Spring Gathering: Images of the Future Recap
Nearly 100 students, alumni, and friends of the University of Houston Foresight program met in Houston for the 2023 Spring Gathering to investigate Images of [...]
Congrats to UH Foresight APF Student recognition winners!
"Students who do outstanding work deserve recognition for that work, and institutions that develop outstanding students also deserve recognition." - APF
Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Leedberg
I first inquired about the Foresight program back in 2013. I was working at Shell at the time and without even knowing the Shell/Foresight connection I was intrigued. [...]