1. Hub Futures Explorers Info Session
Adam Jorlen, Futurist & Helen Palmer, Change Facilitator

2. “This present moment
Used to be
The unimaginable future”
Stewart Brand
The Clock of the Long Now

3. Why think about the future?
The inescapable dilemma:
“All our knowledge is about the past, but all
our decisions are about the future.”
Ian Wilson

4. Types of Futures
 Potential – all possible futures
 Possible - “might” happen (future knowledge)
 Plausible – “could” happen (current knowledge)
 Probable - “likely to” happen (current trends)
 Preferable - “want to” happen (value judgments)

5. Types of futures

6. Check-in
 Why are you here?
 What are your hopes for being part of
the FSF Group?

7. Hub Foresight Process
 February – May 2013
 Purpose
 Success
 Structure
 Collaboration
 Process

8. Copyright: Joseph Voros

10. Strategic Foresight
 Remember, foresight is a normal capacity of
the human mind.
 In organisations, the challenge is to take it
from being an implicit unconscious process
taking place in a single mind to being an
explicit conscious process taking place in
many minds.
 In other words, from implicit & unconscious
to explicit & conscious and from individual to
collective.

11. Collaborative, Open Foresight
"Open Foresight is a process for analysing complex
issues in an open and collaborative way, and to
raise the bar on public discourse and forward-
focused critical thinking.
It draws on well-established methodologies from
the Futures Studies field, principles from design
thinking, and visual communication tools to create
a framework for building forecasts and scenarios."
- From the Future of Facebook project

12. Purpose / Objective
 We are the future of the Hub
 A four-month foresight process to:
 crowd-source a couple of scenarios or
options for the future of Hub Melbourne, and
 increase / deepen awareness of futures
thinking in the Hub community.
 Use wisdom of the crowd
 Build on Hub Ethos / shared meaning

13. Process

14. Process

15. What is success?
 Aims
 Outputs/outcomes
 for us and Hub
 Scenarios
 Learning
 Fun
 Wish list

16. Hub Futures
Social Media
 Twitter hash tag + Yammer topic :
#hubfutures
 Blog for reflections

17. Structure