The Futures of...?
Tell us what the next Open Scan session should explore.
Since Creative Futures started Open Scan for municipal innovators, we've explored a variety of topics and their potential impacts on cities in 2040. This has included a look at the futures of:
Family;
Bill 23 in Ontario;
Higher-ed learning;
Arts;
Rural communities; and
Health and wellbeing.
As we plan the 2024 program schedule, we want to hear from you! What topics would you be most interested in exploring this year?
What is Open Scan?
Open Scan is a virtual gathering of Canadian municipal* innovators who are interested in applying their strategic foresight knowledge and learning with peers.
At each session, Creative Futures shares the latest emerging trends, and facilitates a series of foresight activities to explore long-term implications.
This is a highly participatory session, not a webinar. At each session expect to:
Learn about the latest emerging changes that may impact the municipal context;
Discuss implications of emerging changes with fellow foresight practitioners; and,
Join a broader group of municipal innovators and foresight practitioners to learn from each other and support your work.
*Open Scan is designed for municipal innovators, from government, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations, who have some knowledge of strategic foresight. However, it is open to everyone.
About Creative Futures
Creative Futures helps municipal, post-secondary, health care, nonprofit, and socially-minded leaders plan and prepare for their futures. Using applied futures research, we help organizations navigate complexity and embrace uncertainty, arming them with the tools to think beyond present-day issues and imagine, plan, and prepare for multiple potential futures.
ICYMI: The latest from Creative Futures
NEW REPORT | Career Development in 2040: Preparing for Possible Scenarios of Work and Careers
Looking forward to 2040, what might be the role of career developers? Will “careers” as they are currently conceptualized exist in the same way, or how might they evolve given current macro-level changes impacting jobs and the way we work? The Career Development in 2040 research series explores how major changes may shape work and career development by 2040, and what that might mean for career development professionals. The purpose of this final report is to help career development professionals prepare for a range of possible futures facing their profession. This research project is funded by CERIC.
WEBINAR | Navigating 2040 and Beyond: The futures of careers and career developer roles (March 4, 2024)
Join us on March 4th for this free webinar where we will share key findings from the Career Development in 2040 CERIC-funded research project. This project employed a unique strategic foresight methodology, which started with a rigorous analysis of key trends shaping work and careers in 2040, and translated into a set of scenarios used to uncover how career development services may evolve, and what that means for the role of career developer, and key skills needed to thrive in these futures. Sign up today.
PODCAST | Theatre Future Cast
In 2021 - 2022, Creative Futures worked with theatre researchers to explore critical uncertainties and possible futures affecting the professional theatre community in the Canadian prairie provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Hear about the approach, and what happened when we infused improv with an immersive scenario experience.