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School of International Futures, Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Special Award for North America

5/2/2019

 
by Elizabeth Ononiwu
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On Nov. 27, 2018, Maggie Greyson, 42, received recognition as one of the awardees of the Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award in 2018. 

The award which is developed by the School of International Futures was acknowledged in conjunction with the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) conference in Brussels. Awardees were chosen from a group of 80 applicants from over 37 different nationalities.

According to the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award website, their aim for the award is to, “Create a global sensing-network of future-alert activists and to showcase innovative practice from around the world.”

As an awardee Maggie was invited to the The ESPAS conference in Belgium.  The three days of events in Brussels was an experience Greyson describes as “life changing”. 

Maggie's submission for the award is available in the video below. 
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NGFP WINNERS 2018
PUPUL BISHT and 
OLUWABUNMI AJILORE

SPECIAL AWARDS 
NORTH AMERICA 
MAGGIE GREYSON
EUROPE 
CATHY MADGE
DEVELOPMENT  
EMILY EMPEL
SOUTH AMERICA  
ALINE ROLDAN
HUMANITARIAN 
DANIEL OLARTE
COMMUNITY
JUSTYNA KROL
JOINT EDUCATION 
ERICA BOL
INTERNATIONAL POLICY OZGE AYODOGAN
OCEANIA 
ELLIOT BRENNAN
NATIONAL/LOCAL POLICY 
JUAN MANUEL AVALOS 
ASIA 
VEERAPPAN SWAMINATHAN 

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Association of Professional Futurists - Futures Festival

5/1/2019

 
by Maggie Greyson
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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. 

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Journalists of the Future

4/30/2019

 
by Elizabeth Ononiwu
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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”.
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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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