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PhilForesight-NU set to hold foresight course for leaders



As resilience, city planning and urban regeneration concepts are usually seen as male-oriented and world views are believed to be patriarchal, The Philippine Center for Foresight Education and Innovation Research (PhilForesight) at Northwestern University and the Center for Engaged Foresight (CEF) will hold a foresight seminar on June 25-27, 2015 at the University of Northern Philippines in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, which is expected to be attended by at least 75% of women currently holding key government positions in the country.

Dubbed “Transforming Philippine Cities: An Integrative Foresight Course Women for City Leaders”, the two-day futures course aims to introduce futures thinking and strategic foresight to city planners, administrators, disaster risk management officers, civil society leaders, researchers and academics.

Building on the Resilient Cities, Brighter Futures action learning workshop and the city futures for city leaders futures course held in Penang, Malaysia last year, this project intends to deepen the effort to capacitate and engage local government leaders in the exploration and creation of alternative city futures for Philippine cities in a climate change, ASEAN and knowledge creation-driven century.

Some powerful questions such as “Will Philippine cities transcend beyond the narrative of trauma and disasters?” “Is there an alternative future for Philippine cities or would it learn from the past to innovate, act and create the preferred story?” “Are current strategies enough to transform our cities or do we need to question our assumptions now of continued economic growth and rethink our ways of knowing the city and change the way we imagine our cities and leadership from the big man rule—autocratic, corrupt and isolated to the fresh food market—pluralistic, democratic and participatory?” will be presented during the two-day course.

PhilForesight-NU invited 40 leaders of cities in the country, with a majority of them women occupying key posts in local governments as well as their non-government organization partners.

The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Participation Programme will provide the initial funding to cover the professional fee, travel and accommodation of speakers/facilitators, food and snacks, resource materials, study grant, workshop materials, reporting/presentation and publication for the project.

The Philippine Center for Foresight Education and Innovation Research (PhilForesight) at Northwestern University and the Center for Engaged Foresight (CEF) will serve as secretariat and will provide the local counterpart such as the facilitation of finding additional sources and support such as transport and communication logistics, volunteer and training of facilitators, partnership with a city government, national government agency and a state university, invitation and promotion of the event.

A research cum report on the Future of Cities in the Philippines published by the WFSF and the Philippine Center for Foresight Education and Innovation Research at Northwestern University Philippines a futures or city futures journal for dissemination in the major cities and top research institutes in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific.

The online component will be pursued in partnership with a local IT/internet provider.


For more information, reservation and official invitation please email us at engagedforesight@gmail.com or call us at PhilForesight Northwestern University and look for Ms. Angel Hernando or Ariana Lutterman with trunk lines: (077) 670-85-10, 670-86-07 to 10 TeleFax Number: (077) 670-68-64/771-38-14.

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