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
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