APF Most Significant Futures Works 2021 | Hinesight....for Foresight

The Association of Professional Futurists (APF) has just launched the nominations phase of the 2021 Most Si gnificant Futures Works program! This is our opportunity to recognize the outstanding foresight work within and outside of the APF community. Only APF members can nominate, so if you’re not an APF member, see if you can persuade one to put forth your suggestion. [Of course, we’d be even happier if you joined.]

The program has been running for more than a dozen years now – beginning back in 2007. It is coordinated by a core committee of myself, Jennifer Jarratt, Sam Miller, and Robin Jourdan. Please note Robin is new this year, replacing Rowena Morrow. Thanks to Rowena for her years of service, and welcome aboard, Robin!

The program provides examples of excellent foresight work that we can share with the public or potential clients. What does good futures work look like? Well, we are building an amazing library of great futures works > see Past Winners!

Works are nominated in three categories:

Category 1 Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies
Category 2 Analyze a significant future issue
Category 3 Illuminate the future through literary or artistic works

The “window” for nominations is works published between January 1, 2019—present.

Nominating is simple [again, must be submitted by an APF member] In a nutshell, you can shoot me an email (ahines@uh.edu) with your nomination, which includes: Title; author; format; date; publisher; category; nominating member; why you think it’s important (no more than 300 words). Here is an example from last year.

Design and Futures, Stuart Candy and Cher Potter (Editors), Special Issues 1 and 2, Journal of Futures Studies, Vol 23, Issues 3 and 4, March 2019 and June 2019. Category 1 Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies. Nominating Member: Riel Miller

DEADLINE is July 31, 2020….so don’t procrastinate!!! – 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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