Futures Thinking


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Teacher in psychology: address denial or resistance

  • Provide students with information about emotions and feelings.
  • Ask students to provide a story about an emotional experience.
  • Listen to others’ experience of overcoming these experiences.

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How will you feel about what you do today, in 15 years time?

  • Ask the students to refelct on how you feel about what you do today as if you were living 15 years from now.
  • What can you see, feel, hear, touch?
  • How did you get here (15 years in the future)?
  • What conditions would you expereince?
  • What do you think about how life was 15 years ago (today)?

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Teacher in Computer Science: I provide discussion questions about the podcasts I find relevant for the students. There are many resources. The one by Nate Hagens is good for all sorts of topics, but I used it for a topic about energy.

Students can then be tasked with interviewing each other about the topic we provide and record a podcast of their own. The students listen to each other’s podcast as a mode for presentation and discussion at the end of the course.


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Superflux is a project in collaboration with king’s college in London that includes art as an experiential tool to explore climate action with a positive future perspective. Many inspiring narratives, ideas and possibilities are provided. The project has won the Royal Designer’s for Industry Award in 2022.


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Megatrends engagement tool: This tool can be used for students to workshop ideas about a vision for the future, then backcast to work on plans to achieve the visions. It is adaptable to different class time-frames and could be adjusted for different levels of education. There are interactive online activities that can be conducted within the classroom or in small group work, which makes it adaptable for different learning environments.


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The students are provided with a scenario that explains a problem known in your location, but will affect society in the future.

  • The students take the role of the city board members that need to make a decision.
  • The students are then provided with two alternative solutions to the problem.
  • Students explore how either solution can affect the lives of the citizens, as well as discuss the SD dimensions of each solution.
  • The students are then put in two groups; one that will represent one solution and another group that represents the other solution.
  • The students then a debate which solution is best to conduct.