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Australian Centre for Innovation & International Competitiveness
Professor Ron JohnstonAustralian Centre for Innovation
University of Sydneywww.aciic.org.au
International Foresight AcademyAcademic Seminar
16-19 September 2013ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland
Participatory Foresight for Smarter Futures –from Design to Impact
Key Themes of the Seminar
1. Foresight’s Role in Supporting Democracy Targeted Impacts
Empowering citizens to engage in decision making processes
Shape participatory governance systems
2. Foresight and Stakeholder Engagement in Addressing Grand Challenges
Designing and implementing sustainable solutions to major challenges
Scenario Axes of the Seminar
Grand Challenges Addressed
Grand Challenges Not Addressed
Participative Governance
Non-Participative Governance
Scenarios of Possible Futures
Grand Challenges Addressed
Grand Challenges Not Addressed
Participative Governance
Non-Participative Governance
Paternalism
Breakdown
Utopia
Disillusion
Utopia
High levels of social innovation
Transformed Society
Harmony
Foresight – flourishing and widespread
Paternalism
Bureaucratic/technocratic
Expert-based
Authoritarian
Community resistance
Foresight – embedded and instrumental
Disillusion
Communitarian but ineffective
Frustration, conflict
Nostalgia
Competition for resources
Foresight – discredited as ineffective
Breakdown
Crisis
Poverty
Civil unrest
Democratic governments rejected – new barons (Mad Max)
Foresight - irrelevant