Long View Project
NC State’s Long View Project seeks to anticipate the intermediate and far future by building on the interdisciplinary expertise of the world’s best scholars.
Exploring Possible Futures
The Long View Project investigates possible futures through conversations and creative projects that engage and inspire participants and audiences to build the futures they want.
“The very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is in itself an act of hope.”
Octavia Butler
Students graduating from universities today will be hitting their mid-career stride around the year 2050. By 2050, their world will be one in which energy systems, communication, ecological realities, climate and societal context are far different than they are today. As scholars and educators, if our research is to be useful, our public engagement relevant and our students successful, we must do all we can to try to anticipate the future.
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Community of Practice
The Long View Project Community of Practice meets once per semester. We aim to create a community of practice that both informs and draws from our collective work to envision the future. More than anything, it is a place to share, to embrace quantitative, artistic and narrative approaches to understanding the future, and to leverage the resulting imaginaries to foster more innovative and impactful work in the lab, classroom, and community and inspire action towards realizing positive futures.
To join, please sign up for our Google Group, [email protected].
Futures Thinking Resources
‘Futures Thinking’ is an interdisciplinary set of methods for considering different versions of the future. It includes tools and approaches you can use to help realize the most desirable of those futures and guard against the not-so-great ones.
The Long View Project can help you incorporate futures thinking into your work or teaching. To request a futures thinking consultation or workshop, email us at [email protected].
