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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