Welcome to the UH Foresight Blog
Looking Back on the Coming Values Transformation
As a futurist in training in the late 1980s, I came across what could be called a “transformation literature” centered in the 1970s. In doing [...]
A Beachhead for Foresight
I recently taught our week-long Certificate course in Strategic Foresight in Brussels. It was a great group who was already involved in some foresight work within [...]
A Fulbright Course on Strategic Foresight
Alum Roumiana Gotseva, currently with the Foresight Alliance, is offering course in Strategic Foresight - this summer as part of The Fulbright International Summer Institute (FISI). [...]
STEEP is just an acronym!
little bit of a rant here. The really good news is that foresight and futurists are being introduced to more and more people every day. [...]
2011 Futures Reunion Follow-up
This Saturday focused on two presentations by Program Director Dr. Peter Bishop and Executive-in-Residence Andy Hines. Bishop proposed a novel framework for supporting statements of plausibility within scenarios...
Are We More Optimistic about the Future than We Should Be?
Apparently so!….Our Futures Studies program had the great pleasure of a visit with Philipp Ecken, a colleague with Center for Futures Studies and Knowledge Management, [...]
Some Content….on the Future of Work
While we certain teach a lot of the "how-to-do" foresight, process and content cannot be completely separated. Many classes have a major project as their [...]
Personal Futures: Using Foresight Tools to Plan Your Future
Last night’s Seminar class was on Personal Futures – essentially how to use futures studies to plan your life. Our guest was UH Futures Graduate [...]
Futures Family Reunion
Current students, alums, and professors of the Futures Studies program at the University of Houston are planning a weekend of merriment, mirth, and a little [...]
Futures Studies
Futures Studies is a multi-disciplinary study of change and its implications in the context of the future. It synthesizes insights from a wide variety of [...]