Dr Wendy Schultz
Co-lead in Jigsaw Foresight and Director of Infinite Futures

 on
The Deep Transitions Futures/Transformative Investment project: 
The design and facilitation of the international panel process with a focus on theory-based worldbuilding

Thursday, 4 May 2023, 13:00 – 14:00
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Topic:

Wendy will offer background on the design and facilitation of the international panel process for the Deep Transitions Futures/ Transformative Investment project, most particularly the Deep Transitions (DT) theory-based worldbuilding process that resulted in a set of three alternative desirable future worlds. The presentation will share the results of the crowdsourcing effort to stress-test the three future worlds, the critiques offered by reviewers during roundtable discussions, and the DT Futures team’s responses.

This is designed to be an introduction to what we on the team experienced as an exciting, rigorous, creative, and participatory approach to exploring what a range of better futures might look like, and how we could help people build theory-based, systemic, action pathways to reaching more just and sustainable futures.

Wendy is also interested in the topics of chaos turtles and images of the future, and time-permitting will touch on these areas as well.

Join us as Dr Wendy Schultz takes us through the fascinating topic that is Deep Transitions theory-based worldbuilding process.

As Co-lead in Jigsaw Foresight and Director of Infinite Futures, Dr. Schultz is an academically trained futurist with over forty years of foresight research practice and training all around the world. She has designed and facilitated futures workshops and research for NGOs, government agencies, and businesses.

Wendy specializes in participatory futures workshops – most recently online for the Deep Transitions Futures project, Chatham House, the Law Society UK, and the ILO. Other examples include face-to-face workshops offering foresight training in Kuala Lumpur; at A Temporary Futures Institute at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp; for Africa Knows in Arusha, Tanzania; with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Bangkok, New York, and Geneva; and in Budapest for Vodafone.