APF Significant Futures Works | Hinesight....for Foresight

One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. Each year, we announce the winner at the APF reception that takes place alongside the WFS conference – this year it was in Washington DC on July 23^rd. I am particularly excited that we are building a library of significant futures works….stretching back to 2007. So, when someone asks “what does good futures work look like, we have examples!

We had five winners this year. Each winner is recommended by a two-judge team and confirmed by the full panel of judges.

Category 1 Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies (all three are equal winners….no “places”)

Scenario Exploration System; Laurent Bontoux (JRC), Daniel Bengtsson (former JRC), Aaron B. Rosa (HRCFS), John A. Sweeney (HRCFS/CPPFS) November 2015, (Report to be published in The Journal of Futures Studies, March 2016) (link)
Symposium on Intuition in Futures Work, Edited by Oliver Markley, Article collection, Journal of Futures Studies, Sept. 2015. (link)
What Works, by Sohail Inayatullah, Book, Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2015. (link)

Category 2 Analyze a significant future issue

The Future of Protein. The Protein Challenge 2040: Shaping the Future of Food. Forum for the Future, Report, 2014. (link)

Category 3: Illuminate the future through literary or artistic works

Humans Need Not Apply, by CGP Grey, Video (link)

I would like to acknowledge my fellow core committee members Cindy Frewen and Rowena Morrow and this year’s judges, without whom this program does not happen, were: Kristin Alford, Natalie Ambrose, Peter Bishop, Jim Breaux, Josh Calder, Bob Frame, Terry Grim, Tricia Lustig, Oliver Markley, Sam Miller, and Peter Padbury. Thank you all so much for another successful program. – Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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