Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future
Learn to design and run multiplayer forecasting games to explore future scenarios, anticipate consequences, and create inclusive futures thinking communities.
Learn to design and run multiplayer forecasting games to explore future scenarios, anticipate consequences, and create inclusive futures thinking communities.
This course cannot be purchased separately - to access the complete learning experience, graded assignments, and earn certificates, you'll need to enroll in the full Futures Thinking Specialization program. You can audit this specific course for free to explore the content, which includes access to course materials and lectures. This allows you to learn at your own pace without any financial commitment.
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What you'll learn
Design and facilitate multiplayer forecasting games
Use future wheels to explore surprising consequences
Apply positive and shadow imagination techniques
Conduct leading-edge interviews and perspective analysis
Create innovative solutions for urgent challenges
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This course includes:
2.6 Hours PreRecorded video
2 assignments
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There are 5 modules in this course
This comprehensive course teaches participants how to use collaborative gaming techniques to explore possible futures. Students learn to design and facilitate multiplayer forecasting games, use tools like future wheels and positive-shadow imagination, and conduct leading-edge interviews. The curriculum includes practical applications with the Ethical Operating System tool, developed with Omidyar Networks' Tech and Society Lab, focusing on anticipating technological impacts and preventing unwanted consequences.
Introduction to Collaborative Foresight
Module 1 · 3 Hours to complete
How to Game Out Surprising Consequences
Module 2 · 2 Hours to complete
Positive and Shadow Imagination
Module 3 · 3 Hours to complete
Tools for Seeing the Future from a Different Point of View
Module 4 · 2 Hours to complete
Epic Wins
Module 5 · 2 Hours to complete
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Instructor
Pioneering Futurist and Advocate for Gaming's Potential to Transform Reality
Jane McGonigal, PhD, is a leading research director at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, with over a decade of experience in futures research and technology development. She is renowned for her innovative workshops, including "How to Think Like a Futurist" at Stanford University Continuing Studies, and has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley. McGonigal is the author of two New York Times bestselling books: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. Her TED talks on gaming and its potential to improve lives have garnered more than 15 million views, highlighting her influence in the field. Through her work, McGonigal explores how gaming can enhance problem-solving skills, foster collaboration, and ultimately contribute to creating a better world.
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