Course Content
Week 1: Preferred Futures
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1.1 Survey about the future!
1.2 Welcome to this Course! Meet your professor, Jane McGonigal(video)
01:38
1.3 Urgent Optimism Skills Brief (Your
1.4 Introduce yourself!
Week 1: Introduction to Preferred Futures
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1.5 What’s a preferred future?(video)
09:34
1.6 Tips on Preferred Futures(video)
04:47
1.7 Working Backwards from a Preferred Future(video)
06:22
1.8 Hello from the year 2050: An example of a preferred future
1.9 What's your preferred future?
Week 1: Headlines from the Future
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1.10 Good news from the future!(video)
04:18
1.11 News of the Future
1.12 TOOL: Headline the Future
1.13 Write a headline from the future!
Week 2: What’s an Image of the Future?
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2.1 What’s an image of the future?(video)
10:09
2.2 Images of the Future (excerpt)
2.3 OPTIONAL: 7 Images of the Future from 1947
2.4 Images of the Future
Week 2: Today’s Images of the Future
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2.5 Today’s Images of the Future(video)
06:50
2.6 A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
2.7 Measuring and Influencing Optimism About the Future(video)
05:46
2.8 +1 a Future Scenario for Yourself(video)
Week 2: More Examples of Images of the Future
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2.9 3 Images of the Future, Year 2027(video)
04:09
2.10 What's your reaction to these images of the year 2027?
2.11 OPTIONAL: Six Short Stories From the Future
Week 3: What are Artifacts from the Future?
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3.1 What are artifacts from the future?(video)
07:40
3.2 More Examples of Artifacts from the Future(video)
04:15
3.3 Artifacts from the Future
Week 3: Tips for Making Artifacts
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3.4 Tips for Thinking of Artifacts(video)
05:03
3.5 DEMO: How I Made These Artifacts!(video)
09:03
3.6 How to Make Artifacts from the Future
Week 3: Make Your Own Artifact
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3.7 Make an Artifact from the Future
3.8 Made an artifact? Share it here!
Week 4: Introduction to Action Roadmaps
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4.1 Introduction to Action Roadmaps(video)
01:22
4.2 How to Build an Action Roadmap (Part 1)(video)
03:54
4.3 How to Build an Action Roadmap (Part 2)(video)
08:24
Week 4: Build YOUR Action Roadmap
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4.4 TOOL: Build an Action Roadmap
4.5 Build your Action Roadmap
Week 4: Climate Action Roadmap
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4.6 Climate Action Map
4.7 Climate Action and YOU
Week 4: How to Help Groups and Communities Change the Future
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4.8 Mini-Masterclass: Group and Community Futures (Part 1)(video)
12:56
4.9 Mini-Masterclass: Group and Community Futures (Part 2)(video)
04:27
4.10 SCENARIO: Sudan 2030(video)
04:02
4.11 OPTIONAL: Kenya Youth Scenarios in 2030
4.12 OPTIONAL: UNDP Foresight Manual: Empowered Futures for the 2030 Agenda
4.13 What community would you bring together to future?
Week 5: Pledge to Make the Future
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5.1 Take the Pledge to Make the Future(video)
03:09
5.2 Pledge to Make the Future
5.3 How will you pledge to make the future?
Week 5: Congratulations! You’re ready to make the future!
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5.4 What's your biggest "a ha" moment from this course?
5.5 Congratulations on finishing the course!(video)
01:52
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action
About Lesson

This reading is optional and just for fun! This is an entire book of short stories, written by some of the Institute for the Future’s favorite science fiction authors. You don’t need to finish reading it to continue with this course. Download it now, and read it any time you want! This reading is for your fun. It is not required for your quizzes or assignments. But I encourage you to pick one of the six stories, and read it now, if you can! Or save it for a rainy day. It’s a gift for you from the Institute for the Future.

Exercise Files
2.11 OPTIONAL Six Short Stories From the Future(attachment).pdf
Size: 1.19 MB
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