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Tuesday, 28 October 2025

“what, where, how?” – pre-conference seminar Jay Gary / Luke van der Laan

At Stellenbosch Business School main building reception area.

Stellenbosch Business School, Yellowwood venue

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Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Welcome: WFSF President Erik F. Øverland and Conference Chair Andre Roux

Keynote: Prof Daresh Ramjugernath – Rector and  Vice Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch

Keynote: Prof Richard Slaughter

  1. Topic: The enrichment of post-growth future alternatives using an online integral foresight methodology
    Presenter: András Márton et al
  2. Topic: Towards Operational Ocean Foresight: Rethinking the Ocean as a “Merritory”
    Presenter: Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT
  3. Topic: The future of our inner world
    Presenter: Julia Kukard

  1. Topic: Alternative Futures of Consumption Behaviour in South Africa towards 2035
    Presenter: Angela Bowyer
  2. Topic: Exploring worldviews and metaphors about work in South Africa
    Presenter: Doris Viljoen
  3. Topic: Continuous Graduate Employability: A Foresight-Based Model for Sustainable Employability
    Presenter: Herbert Salazar

  1. Topic: Embedding Anticipatory Science Diplomacy in South African Higher Education Governance: A Framework for Ethical Foresight and Adaptive Leadership
    Presenter: Bryan Bergsteedt
  2. Topic: A private sector for peaceful and inclusive development
    Presenter: Brian Ganson
  3. Topic: China’s Futures Schools in the Great Transformation Era of 2050 – A Scenario-Based Study Grounded in Anticipatory Systems Theory
    Presenter: Riel Miller

“Measuring What Matters” (Lichty)

Visions for Thriving Futures (Hichert)

  1. Topic: Scenarios for reducing unemployment in South Africa by 2035
    Presenter: Johan Marx
  2. Topic: SANParks 2040: explorative and aspirational futures to co- create a shared vision of South Africa in Harmony with Nature.
    Presenter: Sabine Lehmann
  3. Topic: Futures Literacy in Theological Contexts: Exploring Trust and Belonging through Two Futures Literacy Laboratories in South Africa
    Presenter: Yolande Steenkamp

  1. Topic: Culture Differences in Foresight & Scenarios
    Presenter: Per Ostberg
  2. Topic: Abstract affinities: The impact of emerging countercultures, scenes and movements on the future of ASI-driven lifestyles and artificial societies
    Presenter: Derek Woodgate
  3. Topic: Technologies of the Future in Science Fiction: A Case Study
    Presenter: Olesia Maibakh

  1. Topic: The Far Shores of a Transformative Future: Applying the Three Horizons Framework in Participatory Visioning for Food Systems Change
    Presenter: Tatjana von Bormann
  2. Topic: Building Adaptive Capacities For Tourism Futures: Scenarios In 2035 For Metaverse Tourism
    Presenter: Alison McKie
  3. Topic: Standing Still in Times of Change: Reframing strategic responsiveness through reflexive foresight
    Presenter: Marianne Engelbrecht

“Polycrisis Game” (Goux-Baudiment et al.)

On “Ways of Knowing”

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Thursday, 30 October 2025

Keynote: Prof Sibusiso Moyo -Vice Rector Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies

  1. Topic: The Correlation between Hype Cycles and Innovation Diffusion Theory : Discussion on Combined Model
    Presenter: Nikolay Khlopov
  2. Topic: A Langlands Program for Futures: Towards a Unified Framework
    Presenter: Gabriele RIzzo
  3. Topic: What makes foresight ‘social’? Toward a framework for collective futuring
    Presenter: Anika Keils & Felipe Koch

  1. Topic: Emergence of medical futures studies
    Presenter: Tamás Kristóf
  2. Topic: Modelling Africa’s development potential
    Presenter: Michelle van Rooyen
  3. Topic: Activating Prosocial Futures – Integrating Connection, Creativity, and Authenticity into Futures Practice
    Presenters: Nicci Obert & Karessa Torgerson

  1. Topic: The Future Whisperers: Strategic Leaders turning Foresight into Viral Engagement
    Presenter: Wade Azmy
  2. Topic: From Futurephobia to Futuretopia: new paths from youth voices in Brazil
    Presenter: Rosa Algeria
  3. Topic: The Community of Practice Approach to Bridging Foresight and Advocacy
    Presenters: Annette L Gardner & Marius Oosthuizen & Claire Nelson

Foresight Fundamentals: TRIZ (TEUGUIA NGUIFFO Fabrice)

Jan Berger et al., moderated by Fabienne Goux-Baudiment[ii]

Mixed groups work on “Thriving Together” manifestos

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Friday, 31 October 2025

How scenarios have helped shape national perceptions in South Africa?

  1. Topic: Entangled Relationalities: Reimagining an African Foresight Praxis through Ukama and Quantum Feminist Futures
    Presenter: Steven Lichty
  2. Topic: Prototyping Poetic Societies
    Presenter: Catherine Van Holder
  3. Topic: The hidden conservatism of imagined futures
    Presenter: Adam Gordon

  1. Topic: Thriving Together: Reimagining Futures for Human-Skilled and Digitally Enabled Youth
    Presenter: Deidre Samson
  2. Topic: From Agreement to Alternatives: Youth Foresight on National Trajectories of African Trade Integration
    Presenter: Mbali Ayanda Sithole
  3. Topic: The Future of Museums as a laboratory for pluriversal epistemologies
    Presenter: Raphaële Bidault-Waddington

  1. Topic: Is the Futures Studies Community Thriving Together? – A Bibliometric Approach
    Presenter: Julia Koch & Marcus John
  2. Topic: Anchoring Future Literacy in Practice: A UNESCO based approach
    Presenter: Caroline V. Rudzinska
  3. Topic: “A revealing journey that I never knew I needed” – pedagogical lessons of futures literacy building
    Presenter: Tamás Gáspár & Njabulo Mahlangu

“Foresight in Practice: Doctoral Frontier” (Gary)

UNESCO session 1 (Miller)

  1. Topic: GENESIS: An AI-Powered Framework to Support Future Studies
    Presenter: Alan de Oliveira Lyra
  2. Topic: Anticipating the Future of Work through AI: Expert Delphi with AI-Generated Personas for Strategic Insight
    Presenter: Herbert Salazar

  1. Topic: The collective national vision for development in royal speeches in Morocco
    Presenter: Manal Mouhsine & Philippe Durance
  2. Topic: Law and the Challenge of Weird Fringe Things
    Presenter: Catherine D. L. Tan

  1. Topic: Glocal Community Futures Lab: a pluri-ontological and participatory framework for local sovereignty
    Presenter: Martin Calnan & Thomas Mofolo
  2. Topic: RE:STORY TOGETHER: A Foresight Pilot Project
    Presenter: Trevor James Hartley

“Evaluation of Foresight” (Gardner & Lichty)

UNESCO session 2 (Miller)

Programme subject to change