This section provides some resources and articles for thinking about the future, especially about technology, culture and education, but also about the wider world.
Your first stop is the Future Views Toolkit
The Future Views Facebook group includes news and topical comment
A Storify of NESTA’s FutureFest2016
Future-building inspiration Pinterest board – contains 100s of links to toolkits, inventions, ideas and quotes
Digital cultural learning Pinterest board – 100s of links to digital culture and education innovations and projects
Eco-innovation Pinterest board – 100s of links about innovative designs for a more ecological future
Wired is the go-to place for news of latest technologies, discoveries and contemporary culture
Gizmodo is similar e.g. this article about nine bizarre future jobs
Nesta is a good resource of articles and initiatives, including its FutureFest, an annual festival in September. Also, this report ‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow’.
Atlas of the Future invites contributors to submit projects they are working on that are socially, environmentally and technologically innovative, from anywhere in the world.
How we get to next, stories about how we make our future
Doug Belshaw’s collection of links on the future of work and learning, including toolsets.
Hundred, 100 changemakers interviewed about the future of education
Cultural Learning Alliance – Advocacy, policy ideas and evidence for cultural learning
Open Ideo offers a good insight into challenge-based learning that uses technology and also global challenges of now and the future
Futures Centre, platform for journalism and trends about the future
Speculative Everything – book about speculative design and the future by Dunne and Raby