Celebration of World Futures Day 2022

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Overview

• 14:00 - 16:00, Plenary Session : How can Futures and Foresight inform social transformations for better futures?
• 16:15 - 17:30, Parallel Session : Priority Africa - Imagining Africa’s Futures
• 16:15 - 17:30, Parallel Session : Futures, Youth and Sustainability

In its inaugural celebration, World Futures Day will focus on “Inclusive and Resilient Futures”.

Hosted at UNESCO Headquarters, this iteration of World Futures Day will spotlight efforts from the UN system and its Member States, on new visions for multilateralism and how futures approaches inform inclusive and resilient policy design. This is an opportunity for international organisations, Member States, civil society and non-governmental actors alike to celebrate new ways to use the future.  

UNESCO encourages the dissemination of futures literacy as a capability-based approach to development – a skill accessible to each and every individual. Finding and implementing more sustainable and participatory approaches to development in this decade will be key to ensure effective and inclusive decision-making worldwide. Taking an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and complex systems approach, themes for WFD 2022 include: 

• Our Common Future – how and why the UN Common Agenda is focused on futures and anticipatory approaches;  

• Future Generations – the importance of actively engaging with futures and anticipatory approaches for the resilience of future generations and intergenerational equity;  

• Planetary Resilience – how futures and anticipatory approaches can enable greater planetary resilience; 

• Socioeconomic Transformation and Inclusive Societies – how futures and anticipatory approaches can contribute to a more inclusive and equitable world.