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by Elizabeth Ononiwu
by Maggie Greyson  Dave and I are consistently challenging our assumption that the future presents a greater feeling of certainty when you hold a piece of it in your hands.
When we were asked to participate in the Association of Professional Futurists annual virtual Futures Festival we took this as another chance to investigate the theory. by Elizabeth Ononiwu  A foundational activity in foresight practice is to open yourself to challenging your own assumptions. So David and I sought out the most critical minds we could find. We went to the Journalism program at Centennial College and asked them to challenge Futures Present about what we say we do for our clients. We hosted several foresight workshops with them (see the post called Live Challenge) and needless to say our exchanges with these strong communicators were very insightful. Elizabeth Ononiwu captured the testimonials of their experience and it is published here unedited.
Centennial College’s Storyworks students share their experience working as Futures Present journalists Beginning January 2019 at Story Arts Center, four journalism students, Mary An, Margaryta Ignatenko, Carolyn Pioro and Elizabeth Ononiwu have been working with Maggie Greyson and David Buwalda to create compelling content for their company “Futures Present”. Over the past 14-weeks, the four students got the opportunity to be immersed in the world of foresight, future and design by participating in a live challenge, interviewing professionals involved with foresight design, and getting to walk through their own Futures Present exercise. Below are the testimonials of the of the journalism students: Margaryta Ignatenko – “I'm grateful for the opportunity to have worked with Futures Present. This opportunity has highlighted the value journalists hold as "sense-makers" in our society. |
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