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Future of Work and Upskilling

Futures Literacy

Sunday, April 14, 2024
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
Location: Room 101 ABC
CM | 1.5
Division Endorsement: Technology Division
The world around us is changing at an accelerated pace, and the future is more unknowable than ever before. Tech innovations, societal shifts, climate change, economic restructuring, political shifts, and unknown implications from COVID-19 make it difficult to effectively plan for the future. The path forward requires adjusting, adapting, and even reinventing planning processes, tools, and skills to meet the needs of a changing world.
Futures literacy is a skill that gains ever more importance in this fast-changing world. It is "the skill that allows people to better understand the role that the future plays in what they see and do.” It entails the abilities to imagine multiple plausible futures, use the future in our work, and plan with the future. Planners help communities navigate change. To be able to do that now and later, they need to understand how future uncertainties may affect the community, how planners can prepare for them, and how to pivot while the future is approaching.

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Learning Objectives:

  • Imagine plausible futures that are relevant to their work.
  • Understand how to use multiple futures when trying to plan for it.
  • Use creative futures building methods to engage their community members in visioning processes.