Iff praxis update march2011

International Futures ForumWork in Progress March 2011

www.internationalfuturesforum.com

IFF’s tenth anniversary plenary session, The Boathouse, Aberdour, Scotland, March 2011

APAP |NYC 2011 Participant Powered Experience

Producing the Future:Watershed’s Role in Ecosystems of Cultural Innovation

Graham Leicester, International Futures ForumBill Sharpe, International Futures ForumDick Penny, Watershed Media Centre


Making Money and Making Meaning – with the future in mind


IFF US: San Francisco• Establishing an IFF Academy• A centre of IFF activity and

praxis


Scottish Education

• Three horizons strategic thinking kit to be distributed to every school in Scotland

• Network of radical innovators curated by IFF and supported by Scottish Government

• Long term partnership with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools


NHS Plan B

• Programme to save the NHS in Scotland as it collapses south of the border

• Drawing on IFF insight and Fifth Wave


IFF Kitbag

• Set of resources to enhance psychological capacity and personal growth

• Versions for children, families, adults in stressful situations, carers, organisations etc

• New project: kitbag for Iraq/Afghanistan veterans (with Poppy Scotland)

• New project: kitbag for every foster family in Scotland


Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo

• Multinational research project on how to improve policy framework around globalisation so as to reduce ‘disparity’ (poverty and inequality)

• Next meeting – May; Forum 2000, Prague, October; final report and symposium – Tokyo, March 2012


US Higher Education

• Working to support the accreditation agency in the Western part of the US revise its standards for accreditation

• Explicit role is to ‘keep the third horizon alive in our process and in our conversations’

• The agency’s research conference:


IFF World Game

• Now played in a variety of contexts, including as decision/ strategy support

• Online downloadable game under construction (with San Francisco collaborators)

• World Game meets native American wisdom council (two days) in the pipeline

• Tony Hodgson’s book about the world model and the world game published later this year


Three Horizons

• Continues to be used to prompt longer range strategic conversation in a variety of settings

• Taken up with particular enthusiasm in education – generating a three horizons Kit

• Adapting the Kit for other issue areas – eg inequality, health, social care, philanthropy


104 general Practitioners serving the poorest 20% of the population in Scotland. What can they do as a group to tackle the problems of poverty?


Understanding Glasgow January 2011lifestyle

community safety

education

transport

environment

Social capital

health

poverty

Economicparticipation

population

mindset

culturalvitality

www.understandingglasgow.com

Understanding Glasgow January 2011• How might we

gauge how a city is doing in relation to those aspects of life which we say we value?

• 50 people have created a website based on the IFF World Model to try that out.

• Other cities wanting to follow suit

lifestyle

community safety

education

transport

environment

Social capital

health

poverty

Economicparticipation

population

mindset

culturalvitality


http://www.understandingglasgow.com/

Glasgow Centre for Population Health

• International seminar series: 7 years, 40 sessions • 6500 attendees, 80% of whom say they have change practice

as a result of coming• 40,000 downloads of material• Miniature Glasgow DVD seen in 50+ countries, others

following the example (www.miniatureglasgow.com) • Miniature Cities compare Glasgow and Gothenburg• New Community ownership strategy• Civic Conversation, policy conversation• www.gcph.org.uk


http://www.miniatureglasgow.com/

http://www.gcph.org.uk/

The 5th Wave

• What forms the next wave of human endeavour to improve health?

• Policy framework• Masters course at Robert Gordon University• 6 year inquiry with Glasgow University and Centre for

Integrative Care• www.afternow.org.uk • Book to be published later this year on the future public

health


http://www.afternow.org.uk/

Understanding Edinburgh

• City’s Religious leaders ask City Council for indicators of wellbeing beyond economic growth

• Plan to build on IFF’s experience in Glasgow: civic conversation and Understanding Glasgow


The Characteristics of a Learning Society

• National Conversation in four conferences and ten focus groups around Scotland

• What are the characteristics of a learning society?• How would they be implemented?• Policy document and action summer 2011


SHINE Project• Health Foundation funded project to enable

older people to thrive in their own homes and slash health and social care budgets

• Mobilising hidden resources – in communities, agencies and volunteers. Working with Community Catalysts

• Draws on partnership with South Central Foundation HMO, Alaska to develop relational and holistic working


For further information on any of these projects, please contact

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Iff praxis update march2011