Insights For A Better World: Instituting Futures Thinking

Selamat Hari Raya! A slightly longer episode for you to enjoy over the Raya break. A few weeks ago we marked the launch of the KISAH Futures anthology, a compilation of short stories submitted for the KISAH Futures competition that Think City launched in conjunction with UNDP Accelerator Labs, Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, MIGHT and Matahari Books. 

We marked that occasion with a live streamed event and discussion featuring our partners and the winners of the competition. And as we head towards June and the launch of a new grants-based renewal project, the Kuala Lumpur Creative Cultural District, we thought this would be a good time to preface the news of that programme with the discussion we had at the KISAH Futures launch about Futures Thinking. 

Futures Thinking is a system that uses divergent thinking to explore ideas and map the multiple potential answers that reflect the uncertainties of the future. It’s a methodology that allow us to respond to the world around us, to catalyse change, to build resilience and moving towards that goal of sustainable social, economic and ecological futures in our cities and the wider world.