Think outside of the box, discover new perspectives, generate innovation to remain successful in an ever-changing environment. These are challenges that many organizations face. Futures Literacy Laboratories are a new method that helps you address them.

The future does not exist and we cannot know for sure what will happen. But we can use the information contained in our images of the future to navigate the present. Even more: we can experiment with different images of different futures to see and create novelty in the here and now. How is this possible? By going through the different phases of a Futures Literacy Laboratory, a method that is rooted in the Theory of Anticipation and in the Theory of Complexity.

During this virtual meetup you will get a sense of how the method works by experiencing elements of this collective intelligence knowledge creation approach. As an example, you will visit probable and desirable futures of work and look at your assumptions that generated them. And you will get an idea about how alternative futures can take you and your colleagues outside those boxes in a meaningful way. Also, you will hear a bit about the origin of the method, the theoretical basis, its application in organizational practice, and the underlying competence called “Futures Literacy”.

This interactive session will be led by Martina Oettl and Stefan Bergheim from FUON Futures based in Vienna, Austria, and Frankfurt, Germany.