A new version of the 2022 results of World Futures Day has been published on Futuri n. 21 (July 21, 2024), scientific journal issued by the Italian Institute for the Future, partner of the Italy Node of The Millennium Project.

The new issue of the journal puts together the main speeches and contributions on Futures Studies shared during the 2023 conference on “(Im)possible Futures” (a.t. “Futuri (im)possibilI”) hosted in Naples, on September 2023, organized by the Institute in partnership with the Italy Node of The Millennium Project and others.

Among these contributions, the paper on “Un’agenda globale sui futuri dal World Futures Day 2022” (a.t. A global agenda on futures from World Futures Day 2022) by Mara Di Berardo and Simone Di Zio, Chairs of the Italy Node, summarize the WFD 2022 agenda as reported during the conference by Mara Di Berardo and in the publication on Futures.

Abstract: World Futures Day (WFD) is a 24-h round-the-world global conversation about the futures and represents a new kind of participatory futures method. Launched for the first time by The Millennium Project in 2014, WFD on March 1 evokes innovative ideas and solutions to major challenges by sharing knowledge and supporting collective intelligence.
The paper summarizes the main future-oriented topics discussed during WFD 2022, ninth edition of the event, following a mixed methods approach analysis. The Global Futures Agenda 2022 is composed of four thematic clusters including their topics and contents.
Cluster 1 on complex solutions for complex problems includes topics related to suggestions and solutions for future pandemics, wars, space, earth, food, cities and governance. Cluster 2 on a hyper-technological humanity includes topics related to robots, changes in cognitive abilities, cyber dictatorship, pluriverses, trans-human world, and AI global governance system. Cluster 3 on education and learning includes topics related to learning with AI, new metaskills, experiential learning for creativity, and futuring everyone. Cluster 4 on improving global foresight includes topics related to changes in Futures Studies, a surprise theory, types of futuring, futures competences, scenarios as literature, and our common threats and agenda.

You can order the journal at the following links:

• pdf version: https://www.instituteforthefuture.it/prodotto/futuri-21-pdf/ 
• paper version: https://www.instituteforthefuture.it/prodotto/futuri21/