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WICID Annual Lecture 2025
Lecture title: Foresight for Flourishing: Why we Need to Imagine the Futures that We Want to CreateLink opens in a new window
Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025
Time: 13:00-14:30 (BST)
Where: Online – Please register to attend here. Joining instructions will be emailed later
About the Talk:
In a world that is alive with vibrant possibilities for transformational change, using foresight and futures thinking enables us to navigate the complexity and uncertainty that we encounter. By actively imagining and exploring the flourishing futures that we want to create where inequalities are addressed, we can challenge old narratives and assumptions that are keeping us stuck as changemakers, so that we create new, dynamic ways forward today. Elaine invites us to step into our future changemaker self, to entangle ourselves in our relationships with place and to find hope through collective imagination and engagement with our communities.
Elaine France brings together 30 years of experience in social development to catalyse flourishing futures through foresight, responsible innovation and entrepreneurship, working with multi-stakeholders including Nature, in intergenerational, multi-cultural settings, including the UN, Government Advisory, Public Sector, Private Sector and Civil Society. She is the Founder of Flow In Action (https://www.flowinaction.org) providing capacity-building to changemakers; and, Futurist in Residence and Guest Lecturer at Geneva Responsible Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Geneva.