APF First Friday: Alternative, Non-Dominant Futures: Futures Methods from Around the World (FMAW) Initiative

About the session: Alternative, non-dominant futures: The Futures Methods from Around the World Initiative

This session will share more about the FMAW initiative that Prateeksha has been leading in partnership with four national leads in Aotearoa NZ (Alice Dimond), India (Mansi Parikh), Mexico (Graciela Guadarrama Baena), and USA (Alija Blackwell) since the start of the year. The FMAW initiative is housed within the School of International Futures (SOIF) and currently funded by Humanity United and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The initiative aims to surface traditional and contemporary knowledge and wisdom within communities worldwide that could offer an alternative or reframe on ideas/structrues/systems pushed upon us as the normative or status quo (informed by myopic dominant ideas and narratives). Awareness of wider knowledge opens our aperture and supports us in imagining and accessing alternative futures. As a start, the current FMAW national leads are directing this work in their communities and supporting the building of communities of interest and practice to connect this knowledge to futures and foresight work there. The initiative aims to create a public asset (think repository) of this knowledge and wisdom supported by thoughtful governance (the intent is to open minds to alternatives, not enable exploitative out-of-context copy and paste).

The FMAW initiative is designed as a collective effort, so please come join this session to learn more about the work that is unfolding and how you could engage if interested!

Our Speaker:

Prateeksha Singh

Prateeksha Singh is a multidisciplinary design and learning practitioner whose practice sits at the confluence of design research, foresight, and systems. She is driven to working with diverse voices and harnessing inclusive and plural images of the future.

Currently based in Asia, she is an independent innovation consultant largely working with the UNDP since late 2019 supporting the building of institutional innovation capabilities within UNDP offices, and government partners. These capabilities range from strategic and participatory foresight, to reflecting on cohesion of current portfolios of work, dialogue design, systems change theory, and public policy innovation.  Outside of UNDP she is engaged in different global collaborations.

Prateeksha holds a M.Des in Strategic Foresight & Innovation from OCAD University in Toronto. She is the 2019 School of International Futures’ Next Generation Foresight Practitioner global award recipient for her work on equity-based plural futures. 

You may connect with her on LinkedIn, and twitter @mpathyDesigns

Member-only event