With the support of
Participation Programme
United Nations Educational , Scientific and
Cultural Organization
LOCAL
PROJECT : PHILIPPINES
This two-day foresight capacity building course was developed by WFSF Member Shermon Cruz and WFSF Executive Board Member Cesar Villanueva and included 35 participants . Its aim was to further explore and imagine alternatives for women-gendered contexts and roles in transforming Philippine city futures . It introduced and combined creative ,
critical , interpretive and action-learning approaches and game tools to analyze and imagine alternative and preferred city futures from a woman ’ s perspective . Read more about this project from Shermon Cruz in this issue .
FOLLOW-UP PROJECTS
The previous cycle ’ s activities in the Congo were followed up with a campus event in Brussels and an exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp and a fellowship of one of the contributing artists . Read more here .
You can also read about the challenges of blended learning here .
PARTNERS
The Philippine Center for Foresight Education and Innovation Research Northwestern University Laoag ( PhilForesight NWU ); The Center for Engaged Foresight ( CEF ); Step Beyond Australia ; The University of Northern Philippines ( UNP ); Ecole Supérieure d ’ Infotronique d ’ Haïti ( ESIH ); Dirección Ejecutiva de Trabajo del Sistema Penitenciario del Distrito Federal ; Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico y Prospectiva ( Universidad del Externado de Colombia ); Right Livelihood College , based in Penang , Malaysia ; University Sains Malaysia ; Think City , Penang , Malaysia ; Etoile du Sud - social rights NGO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ; Picha - arts centre Lubumbashi ; MuHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ; Knowledge Insights , UK ; Teaching the Future , US ; UNESCO National Commission in Flanders ; Butterfly Design Company , Melbourne , Australia .
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