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International Futures ForumWork in Progress March 2011
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IFF’s tenth anniversary plenary session, The Boathouse, Aberdour, Scotland, March 2011
APAP |NYC 2011 Participant Powered Experience
Producing the Future:Watershed’s Role in Ecosystems of Cultural Innovation
Graham Leicester, International Futures ForumBill Sharpe, International Futures ForumDick Penny, Watershed Media Centre
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Making Money and Making Meaning – with the future in mind
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IFF US: San Francisco• Establishing an IFF Academy• A centre of IFF activity and
praxis
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Scottish Education
• Three horizons strategic thinking kit to be distributed to every school in Scotland
• Network of radical innovators curated by IFF and supported by Scottish Government
• Long term partnership with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools
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NHS Plan B
• Programme to save the NHS in Scotland as it collapses south of the border
• Drawing on IFF insight and Fifth Wave
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IFF Kitbag
• Set of resources to enhance psychological capacity and personal growth
• Versions for children, families, adults in stressful situations, carers, organisations etc
• New project: kitbag for Iraq/Afghanistan veterans (with Poppy Scotland)
• New project: kitbag for every foster family in Scotland
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Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo
• Multinational research project on how to improve policy framework around globalisation so as to reduce ‘disparity’ (poverty and inequality)
• Next meeting – May; Forum 2000, Prague, October; final report and symposium – Tokyo, March 2012
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US Higher Education
• Working to support the accreditation agency in the Western part of the US revise its standards for accreditation
• Explicit role is to ‘keep the third horizon alive in our process and in our conversations’
• The agency’s research conference:
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IFF World Game
• Now played in a variety of contexts, including as decision/ strategy support
• Online downloadable game under construction (with San Francisco collaborators)
• World Game meets native American wisdom council (two days) in the pipeline
• Tony Hodgson’s book about the world model and the world game published later this year
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Three Horizons
• Continues to be used to prompt longer range strategic conversation in a variety of settings
• Taken up with particular enthusiasm in education – generating a three horizons Kit
• Adapting the Kit for other issue areas – eg inequality, health, social care, philanthropy
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104 general Practitioners serving the poorest 20% of the population in Scotland. What can they do as a group to tackle the problems of poverty?
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Understanding Glasgow January 2011lifestyle
community safety
education
transport
environment
Social capital
health
poverty
Economicparticipation
population
mindset
culturalvitality
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Understanding Glasgow January 2011• How might we
gauge how a city is doing in relation to those aspects of life which we say we value?
• 50 people have created a website based on the IFF World Model to try that out.
• Other cities wanting to follow suit
lifestyle
community safety
education
transport
environment
Social capital
health
poverty
Economicparticipation
population
mindset
culturalvitality
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health
• International seminar series: 7 years, 40 sessions • 6500 attendees, 80% of whom say they have change practice
as a result of coming• 40,000 downloads of material• Miniature Glasgow DVD seen in 50+ countries, others
following the example (www.miniatureglasgow.com) • Miniature Cities compare Glasgow and Gothenburg• New Community ownership strategy• Civic Conversation, policy conversation• www.gcph.org.uk
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The 5th Wave
• What forms the next wave of human endeavour to improve health?
• Policy framework• Masters course at Robert Gordon University• 6 year inquiry with Glasgow University and Centre for
Integrative Care• www.afternow.org.uk • Book to be published later this year on the future public
health
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Understanding Edinburgh
• City’s Religious leaders ask City Council for indicators of wellbeing beyond economic growth
• Plan to build on IFF’s experience in Glasgow: civic conversation and Understanding Glasgow
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The Characteristics of a Learning Society
• National Conversation in four conferences and ten focus groups around Scotland
• What are the characteristics of a learning society?• How would they be implemented?• Policy document and action summer 2011
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SHINE Project• Health Foundation funded project to enable
older people to thrive in their own homes and slash health and social care budgets
• Mobilising hidden resources – in communities, agencies and volunteers. Working with Community Catalysts
• Draws on partnership with South Central Foundation HMO, Alaska to develop relational and holistic working
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For further information on any of these projects, please contact
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