by One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. This year we announced winners at the APF Gathering in Seattle on Saturday, July 29th. We are building quite a library of significant futures works….stretching back to 2007. So, when someone asks “what does good futures work look like?” Point them here:
We had three winners this year out of the dozen nominees. 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 “
- Designing an Experiential Scenario: The People Who Vanished, Stuart Candy & Jake Dunagan, Futures, 86, Feb 2017, pp. 136-153. [link]
- Let’s Talk about Success: A Proposed Foresight Outcomes Framework for Organizational Futurists, Andy Hines Journal of Futures Studies, June 2016, 20(4):1-20. [link]
Category 2 Analyze a significant future issue
- Disruptive Futures: Nuclear Weapons Summit, (principals: Creative Santa Fe (Cyndi Conn, Executive Director), N Square Collaborative (Erika Gregory, Managing Director), Nuclear Threat Initiative (Deborah G. Rosenblum, Executive Vice President), PopTech (President, Leetha Filderman), Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 4-7, 2016, Conference (link)
Category 3: Illuminate the future through literary or artistic works
- no winner this year
The list of nominated works that were judged included:
Category 1: What the Foresight: Your Personal Futures Explored. Defy the Expected and Define the Preferred, by Alida Draudt & Julia Rose West; The Critical Role of History in Scenario Thinking: Augmenting Causal Analysis within the Intuitive Logics Scenario Development Methodology by Ronald Bradfield, James Derbyshire, and George Wright, Let’s Talk about Success: A Proposed Foresight Outcomes Framework for Organizational Futurists by Andy Hines; Corporate Foresight, by Guest editors: Rene Rohrbeck, Eelko Huizingh and Cinzia Battistella; Designing an Experiential Scenario: The People Who Vanished by Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan; What is the Future? by John Urry; Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions for Transforming your Future, by Thomas Frey,
Category 2: NaturePod, by Situation Lab; Disruptive Futures: Nuclear Weapons Summit, (principals: Creative Santa Fe, N Square Collaborative, Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Poptech
Category 3: Hyper-reality, by Keiichi Matsuda, Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, by Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative; Science Fiction Futures; Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast: Futures 2030-2045, by Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory,
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: Nur Anisah Abdullah, Liz Alexander, Josh Calder, Bob Frame, David Hamon, Robin Jourdan, Jim Lee, Michael Lee, Tricia Lustig, Oliver Markley, Sam Miller, Guillermina Baena Paz, Gabriele Rizzo, John A. Sweeney. Thank you all so much for another successful program. – Andy Hines
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