Featured book: The End of the Cow And Other Emerging Issues (2022)

By Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević

Metafuture.org, 2022

The End of the Cow And Other Emerging Issues explores five disruptions that have the potential to dramatically impact wellbeing, food systems, climate change, gender equity, the family, and how we learn. It consists of six chapters:

  1. Emerging Issues Analysis
  2. The Anticipatory City
  3. Disrupting the Cow
  4. Women Really Lead the Way
  5. The Changing Family
  6. Learning Anytime, Anywhere, With Anyone

Purchase: EPUB or PDF

Featured book: The Future Maker (FICTION) (2022)

The Future Maker

By Ivana Milojević

Metafuture.org, 2022

The Future Maker is an illustrated fiction book by Ivana Milojević. Graphic design is by Charmaine Sevil and Lynda Sampson. Intended for Change Makers of All Ages. The book is written in two parts. Part one is titled, The Girl Who Knew the Future (19pp) and part two is titled, The Girl Who Changed the Future (17pp).

More information about Futures Tales series https://tales.metafuture.org/

Purchase: EPUB

New Book: Prout in Power (2017)

Prout in Power: Policy Solutions that Reframe Our Futures

By Sohail Inayatullah

Proutist Bloc India Publications, New Delhi, 2017

 

Created in the late 1950s by the Indian philosopher, mystic, and social activist P.R. Sarkar, Prout or the Progressive Utilization Theory is not only a theory of social change and transformed leadership, but an alternative political-economy; an emergent alternative to capitalism, a vision and comprehensive model of a new future for humanity and the planet. Sarkar’s intent was and is (his organizations continue his work) to create a global spiritual cooperative revolution, a new renaissance. His goal is to infuse individuals with a spiritual presence, the necessary first step in changing the way that we know and order our world.

Divided into six sections – Prout and policy-making; geopolitics; education, social issues, political-economy; and the conclusion – this book moves from theoretical comparisons of Prout and other macro perspectives on the nature of reality to policy and policy-making.

The chapters investigate particular issues facing a nation or institution and articulate alternative futures. Most of the chapters conclude with a discussion of Prout policy implications; some chapters have Prout policy implications built into them. The implications serve as guidelines for the reader. They are not there to close the policy debate but to shift the policy perspective toward Prout. Hopefully in the near future these will become not theoretical implications but real political choices that Prout citizen groups and leaders will make. We imagine that alternative future and begin with the opening up of the realities of today. The way will certainly be very difficult and full of struggles, as Sarkar often reminded us. Humans can always quit, choosing the easier downhill path that moves away from our bliss. For this reason, it is crucial to imagine and feel that the future has already arrived – it is not distant; we are living it today. As Sarkar said: “Even a half hour before your success, you will not know it.”

Length: 260 pages

Purchase: PDF

CLA 2.0 in Farsi (2017)

 
 
با سلام و احترام
 
 
 
مبانی نظری و مورد کاوی های مختلف و متنوع 
 
 
اثر برجسته پرفسور سهیل عنایت الله و ایوانا میلیویچ
 
 
تحلیل لایه ای علت ها. نسخه 2.0
 
 
روش پرکاربرد و معروف آینده پژوهی انتگرال
 
 
 تحلیل لایه ای علت ها یکی از روش های آینده پژوهی است که سهیل عنایت الله آن را ابداع کرده و توسعه داده است. هدف از پیاده سازی تحلیل لایه ای علت ها ساخت شکنی  پدیده های اجتماعی و رسیدن به درکی عمیق از لایه های زیرین مسائل و مشکلات است. پس از آشکار شدن لایه های مختلف پدیده ها و قرار گرفتن متن در بافت نوبت به تدوین و ارائه سناریو های بدیل آینده می رسد.

در تحلیل لایه ای علت ها حالت های مختلف دانستن اعم از علمی- تجربی، تفسیری – تاویلی، و فلسفی – انتقادی یکپارچه می شوند. ارزش و سودمندی این روش در  پیش بینی بهتر و دقیق تر آینده نیست بلکه با ایجاد فضاهای گذار زمینه لازم را برای خلق آینده های بدیل  فراهم می کند. همچنین کاربرد این روش هنگام سیاست گذاری عمومی و درازمدت نهایتا منجر به تهیه بینش های جامع تر، ژرف تر و اثربخش تر می شود.

تحلیل لایه ای علت ها از چهار سطح تشکیل می شود که عبارتند از : لیتانی ، علت های اجتماعی- سیستمی ، جهان بینی و گفتمان مسلط ، و نهایتا اسطوره -استعاره.

 ۱- سطح اول لیتانی نام دارد که در فرهنگ مسیحی به معنی مراسم دعا و مناجات دسته جمعی است. لیتانی سطحی ترین لایه بوده و معرف دیدگاه رسمی و پذیرفته شده از واقعیت است.

۲- سطح دوم سطح علت های اجتماعی و معرف دیدگاه سیستمیک است. در این سطح داده های سطح لیتانی توضیح داده شده و مورد سوال قرار می گیرند.

۳- سطح سوم نمایانگر جهان بینی و گفتمان است. در این سطح فرض های استدلالی ، که بر بستر جهان بینی ها و ایدئولوژی ها قرار داشته و ناخودآگاه هستند واکاویده می شوند.

۴- سطح چهارم نشانگر اسطوره ها و استعاره هاست. این سطح در واقع معرف ابعاد انگیزشی ناخودآگاه موضوع است.

 
 
شماره تماس برای سفارش کتاب
 
88541749
 
09337762822

 

 

 

 

 

 
دانلود رایگان پیشگفتار کتاب و خلاصه فصل ها

http://www.metafuture.org/cla papers/CLAIntroductionFarsi.pdf

:Applied Introduction to the Art and Science of Futures Studies by Victor Vahidi Motti
گروه گوگل قطب نمای آینده و مخزن بزرگ آن بهترین و بی نظیرترین پایگاه اطلاعات آماده و موجود به زبان فارسی و متمرکز بر آینده پژوهی شامل مطالب متنوع در حوزه های سیاسی، اقتصادی، فنآوری، محیطی، اجتماعی، فرهنگی و غیره در فضای ایران، منطقه و جهان است. برای کسب اطلاعات بیشتر به سایت مرجع چهره جهانی آینده پژوهی، وحید وحیدی مطلق، مراجعه فرمائید.
 

October 19-21, 2016

Futures thinking, Strategy Development and Transformative Research Course

NDS and Professor Sohail Inayatullah

This intensive strategic foresight course will be interactive and focus on enhancing the ability and capacity to create alternative and preferred futures in the NDIS world. Participants will be assisting in building their capability to anticipate major trends, challenges and opportunities facing organisations and the wider sector and explore critical questions including:

    • What are the futures of disability service providers?
    • How will the NDIS impact your organisation?
    • What are the potential impacts of platform cooperativism?
    • Indeed, how will the increasing rate of change impact how and what you do?

Participants will select a focus question, a compelling issue that they are working on, and use the questioning and creating process to design the future they desire. Along with an eye to the external world, we will explore our inner narratives and the stories that can help take us to our preferred futures. In-depth and extensive coverage of strategic foresight concepts, tools and methods will be provided along with the application of these methods to the participants’ compelling issue or action learning projects.

Course Details
Date:
19th , 20th and 21st October 2016
Time:
Day 1 and 2: 9am – 5pm / Day 3: 9am – 3pm
Location:
Pavilion Function & Conference Centre – Century Room
Cost:
$1450 NDS Members | $1950 Non-Members
Note:
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea included for the three days
Registration:
This course will only be offered by NDS once in 2016 and is made available at a substantially reduced cost to NDS Members and Non-Members. Places in this course are strictly limited to 40 participants to enable one-to-one mentoring. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to support your organisation to adapt, innovate and transform.
If you would like to discuss further detail about this course please contact:

Lisa Fraser
Senior Sector Development Officer
Queensland
Ph: 07 3828 9415
Fax: 07 3003 1698
Mob: 0417 723 653
Email: lisa.fraser@nds.org.au
Web: www.nds.org.au

Sample Chapters from Prout In Power (2017)

Ehealth Futures for Bangladesh http://www.metafuture.org/pdf/ehealthbanladesh.pdf

The Futures of Higher Education http://www.metafuture.org/pdf/futureshighered.pdf

Arab Spring Scenarios http://www.metafuture.org/pdf/arabspring.pdf

The Futures of Crime and Prison http://www.metafuture.org/pdf/crimeandprisons.pdf

Social Movements and Strategy http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/Transformative%20strategy%20for%20the%20Prout%20movement%2015%20may%202009.pdf

Democratic Governance Asia 2030 http://www.metafuture.org/pdf/democraticgovernanceasia.pdf

 

These are earlier (draft) versions of chapters, for the final (published) version click here: Prout in Power (2017) (PDF)

 

 

 

 

June 23, 2016

Global Futures, Geneva Perspectives.

Learning and Livelihoods: implications for children and youth on the move.

Salle Sergio Vieira de Mello (2nd Floor), World Meteorological Organisation, 7 bis Avenue de la Paix, Geneva