IDEAS

Building collective futures wisdom

This page is a home for my evolving thinking on what I increasingly describe as Collective Futures Wisdom: an ongoing exploration of how diverse disciplines, worldviews, belief systems and traditions can be brought into dialogue while integrating ethical judgment and moral awareness into the ways we perceive, imagine and shape the future.

Here I share ideas, keynote talks, essays, emerging concepts, and inspirations from colleagues and collaborators that continue to shape this journey. Ultimately, the aim is to support the systemic transformations needed for human and planetary flourishing.

Featured Perspectives

In May 2026 I delivered a keynote on Learning the Future: Futures Literacy for the Next Generation at the Interactive Policy Lab on Diplomatic Foresight, organised by the Ministry of Foresight Affairs and Foreign Trade of North Macedonia, Diplomatic Club Skopje and the University American College Skopje. The keynote invited participants to question dominant narratives about certainty, prediction and progress, arguing that the future is not something waiting to be discovered but something continuously shaped through our assumptions, choices and interactions. Futures Literacy was presented as a capability for expanding the range of imaginable futures and strengthening our capacity to navigate uncertainty with responsibility and care.
In January 2026, during Laurea International Week, I held a keynote on Hope, Resilience, and Agency at the time of monsters. In my talk, I challenged dominant interpretations of hope and resilience by focusing on human agency. The keynote invited participants to reflect on their own lives and everyday practices, asking a difficult but important question: what is our role in sustaining the systems that produce suffering, exclusion and injustice? Rather than locating responsibility solely in the actions of governments, corporations or other distant actors, I argued that meaningful transformation begins with examining our own assumptions, moral, choices and forms of participation. Hope, in this sense, is not passive optimism but a call to act with greater awareness, responsibility and care.
The article on Methods to imagine transformative futures was published in Futures in spring 2024. Jointly developed with Minna Vigren (LUT University), the article examines how transformative futures can be imagined and what kinds of methods support that process. Through an integrative literature review, we identified important gaps in existing futures and foresight methods, arguing that genuine transformation requires more than generating ideas about the future. The article highlights the importance of imagination, meaning-making, participation and learning in expanding people’s capacity to engage with uncertainty and alternative futures. It also suggests a shift in perspective: rather than seeing futures practitioners primarily as method users, they should be understood as capability developers who help individuals and communities strengthen their ability to imagine, interpret and use the future in more transformative ways.

merging Ideas

Discussing the socio-technical conditions in Futures Literacy practice, a work-in-progress led by Etrit Shkreli (Sabanci University, Istanbul/Turkey); the study is based on a futures lab we collaborated on designing to see what happens when linear time, pacha time and ibn al-waqt (rumi) time are used as analytical lenses to study how their uses can (and in what conditions) help students become more open to alternative futures.
An attempt to clarify the methodological commitments, participatory practices, and power-related approaches that could support more grounded and accountable sustainability transformations; a work-in-progress I share with Minna Vigren (LUT University, Lappeenranta/Finland), the idea of which continues our research on Methods to imagine transformative futures, and first presented at SUSTAINABILITY, TEMPORALITIES AND FUTURES, herd 9–10 June 2026 in Turku/Finland.
Discussing Collective Futures Wisdom in the Earth Stewardship (ESA) article on Cultivating futures wisdom for collective transformation, co-authored with Etrit Shkreli (Sabanci University, Istanbul/Turkey).

MANIFESTO (IN DEVELOPMENT)

A longer essay on Futures Literacy, ethics, imagination and planetary wellbeing under construction.

SOME OF MY SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

Ivana Milojevic, the Director of Metafuture and Metafuture School, whose work I have found inspiring since I first got to know about her. The world definitely needs more futurists like Ivana, ones who are ethically grounded and dare to challenge our dominant narratives which leave very little space for true alternatives. I absolutely loved Ivana´s keynote at Anticipation 2026 in Milan/Italy on 10.7.2026, speaking of the age of gender and cultural partnership, requiring a radical synthesis of the public and private sphere to restore human bonds.
Beyond Duality, an eight-week online learning journey created by Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjoskov and Erin Remblance to unlearn modernity, question the myth of separation from nature, and move past business-as-usual “sustainability”. They are also very active at LinkedIn, with thought-provoking posts I recommend to follow.
Miniatures of Evolution, a transformative learning intervention to tackle the ecological crisis, designed and cured by Maria Emanuela Galanti, with a strong linkage to philosophy and developmental psychology. This course is not for everyone, but a powerful experience indeed.