*You’ve got mail!* Discover your two postcards from the future sent by The Design Futures Initiative following #PRIMER21. We will uncover them August 25 and August 26 during two happy hour sessions! – Wed 8/25 (5-6PM PST) REMIXING & DEMYSTIFYING NUMEROLOGY, with Kelly Kornet and Analilia Morales – Thu 8/26 (5-6PM PST) THE HOME OF THE 2020s MAKING OUR HOMES MOREContinueContinue reading “Design Futures – Postcards from the Future”
Author Archives: Sylvia
The Future of Education: Inspiration from 9 global futurists
As 24 million children and youth are at risk of dropping out of school as a result of the global health crisis, according to UNESCO, Wellbeing Futurist Tom Meyers at Futurize Yourself et al. shared his inspiration to the students at RNB Global University in Rajasthan, India. He reached out to 8 futurists from allContinueContinue reading “The Future of Education: Inspiration from 9 global futurists”
Disrupting Existence: The Future Me!
Rewatch Roger Spitz’s lecture at #QuantumThinking2021 and the debate that follows with Sylvia Gallusser, Ligia Zotini Mazurkiewicz and Lala Deheinzelin on the topic of “Disrupting Existence: The Future Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LILcvjd60fg&t=177s&ab_channel=FutureHacker Imagining our future selves in a world in which technologies will go beyond our imagination. What could we do today to draw desirable futures considering a whole new universe of innovations, technologies,ContinueContinue reading “Disrupting Existence: The Future Me!”
Future Homes – At Home in the Post-Pandemic Era
Rom Gayoso, Editor of the newly launched International and Competitive Intelligence Magazine, invited Futurist Sylvia Gallusser to present her foresight methodology and the results of her work on the “Home of the 2020s”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4EeaM7gM8Q&list=PL62zgSMbftMZdGcjL6u8JZznQyL7m6Ran&index=4&ab_channel=RomGayoso In her article “Futures Homes – At Home during the Post-Pandemic Era”, Sylvia introduces her X-ing from home framework including 3ContinueContinue reading “Future Homes – At Home in the Post-Pandemic Era”
Mental Health in the Workplace: an Urgent Matter!
On July 21, Hacking HR organized an event on “Mental Health at Work: The Defining Challenge for HR in 2021” along four expert panels led by Hacking HR Founder Enrique Rubio: Mental Health In The WorkplaceThe Business Imperative To Address Mental Health At WorkLeading Upward: How To Turn The C-Suite Into Champions of Mental HealthTheContinueContinue reading “Mental Health in the Workplace: an Urgent Matter!”
Future Hacker Quantum Thinking 2021
The free online event “Future Hacker Quantum Thinking 2021” takes place on July 27th. Experts from around the world involved in creating our future discuss their ideas at Future Hacker Quantum Thinking 2021. The main speakers will be: Itai Talmi, the founder of Born Partners, a company that works in innovative transformation initiatives and researchContinueContinue reading “Future Hacker Quantum Thinking 2021”
The Home of the 2020s
How can we build more resilient housing and improve our mental health at home? July 7 we discussed how to futureproof home design and home life, at the #PRIMER21 Conference organized by the The Design Futures Initiative. We introduced our Report “The Home of the 2020s: Making our Homes more Resilient” and presented some of the results fromContinueContinue reading “The Home of the 2020s”
The Thirst for Knowing
“Probably one of the main things that characterized me as a teenager growing up in France, in the Paris suburbs, was that I was thirsty for knowledge, thirsty for science for culture. And it was both a fabulous driving force, but also a cause of profound anxiety. Driving force because I just want to ingestContinueContinue reading “The Thirst for Knowing”
Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment
I had the immense privilege to be speaking at the “International Forum of Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment” remarkably organized by ICESCO.En – Islamic World Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization! Thank you so much for the kind invitation, I am so grateful! You can now watch the replay of the event https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=333595314887474&ref=watch_permalink
[Vignette of life 2030] The Kilt House
This is a Future Fiction piece in honor of Pride Month, exploring the future of gender, fashion, and homes in the context of a “content home” in 2030. Read the full text on Predict. It has now been five years since I joined the Kilt House, and not a single boring day has gone byContinueContinue reading “[Vignette of life 2030] The Kilt House”
A Philosophy of the Future(s)
Listen to the replay of my lecture on “A Philosophy of the Future(s)”. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about this topic at Global Foresight Summit among so many inspirational sessions – Association of Professional Futurists World Futures Review: A Journal of Strategic Foresight FFWD – Futures Intelligence & Strategic Foresight. Call to Action! We now need to build thatContinueContinue reading “A Philosophy of the Future(s)”
The Grey Swan Guild News Wrap — The Week That Was, May 28, 2021
Grey Swan Guild — News Wrap Edition: #19 of Vol. 1 These are a series of stories and headlines we are tracking in theGrey Swan Guild’s Global League of Sensemakers Newsroom. Here is The Great, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of what we observed this week. Despite our eager impatience to learn what happens during the Friends Reunion,ContinueContinue reading “The Grey Swan Guild News Wrap — The Week That Was, May 28, 2021”
Beyond Uncertainty: A Philosophy of the Future(s)
Join us next week at Global Foresight Summit. Foresight researcher Sylvia Gallusser will scan over centuries of philosophy to understand how the future has been addressed by philosophers. We will also investigate how philosophy provides a framework to think about the futures and augments our foresight techniques. We will eventually present applications in the field of ethics andContinueContinue reading “Beyond Uncertainty: A Philosophy of the Future(s)”
The Pandemic Home Hotline: Domestic Violence under lockdown
As part of a Pandemic Home project, we have developed three scenarios around three fictional patient personas. The scenarios have been turned into audio dialogues, simulating the dramatic conversation between individuals in distress at their home and mental health hotline responders. Listen here: Domestic Violence under Lockdown (The Pandemic Home Hotline) https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Q1Z30hRYdCexehqaN4AEx?si=jO2_hgrRS8yTfD96EqEGNg “Veronica is 42 yearsContinueContinue reading “The Pandemic Home Hotline: Domestic Violence under lockdown”
How future-thinking may influence our Psychology and Philosophy?
“Have you ever heard of people that are paid to contemplate the future? It’s true! They exist. They are called Futurists. They even have their own training and schools they attend. And no, they are not psychics. They utilize analysis of big data, trends, and other mental exercises to predict multiple models of possible futuresContinueContinue reading “How future-thinking may influence our Psychology and Philosophy?”
The Importance of Future-proofing your Business
How can corporate leaders and entrepreneurs use foresight technics and include futurists in their team to future-proof their business? Discover the futurist profession and its many applications in the business world! With Lea Scher, Co-founder at Future Agency, Futurist Sylvia Gallusser introduces the Strategic Foresight methodology and discusses the urge for businesses to engage inContinueContinue reading “The Importance of Future-proofing your Business”
Philosophy of the Future – 12 Conceptions of Futurity (in 70 quotes)
By Philosophy of the Future, we mean “Philosophy addressing the topic of the Future”, not the Evolution of Philosophy in the Future. The topic of the Future of Philosophy is quite popular as we witness a regain in curiosity for the philosophical practice, be it in open classes for the general audience, on airwaves, podcast,ContinueContinue reading “Philosophy of the Future – 12 Conceptions of Futurity (in 70 quotes)”
The Grey Swan Guild News Wrap — The Week That Was April 9, 2021
Edition: #12 of Vol 1 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II , and Father of Prince Charles, died on Friday April 9 at Windsor Castle in England. He was 99. These are the series of stories and headlines we are tracking in the Grey Swan Guild’s Global League of Sensemakers’ Newsroom. The selectionContinueContinue reading “The Grey Swan Guild News Wrap — The Week That Was April 9, 2021”
“Leisuring” from Home: The Future of Social Life, Entertainment, and Culture?
“All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.” – Pascal, Pensées (1670)“The only good thing for man is to be diverted so that he will stop thinking about his circumstances.” – Pascal, Pensées (1670) Philosophy of the Bedroom and Home Entertainment In his Pensées, French philosopher Blaise Pascal introduces us toContinueContinue reading ““Leisuring” from Home: The Future of Social Life, Entertainment, and Culture?”
X-ing From Home and The Future of Work
On March 24, I was invited to talk to international business students as part of a course about “Future Scenarios & Social Change in the Emerging Economies”. Futures Studies Professor Mario Reyes currently offers this curriculum at the Universidad del Desarrollo. Thank you Mario for the kind invitation and wonderful exchange of ideas! The classContinueContinue reading “X-ing From Home and The Future of Work”
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