Kuala Lumpur 2019 Workshop 2

"Creating Futures: From Literacy to Fluency"

Workshop

23-25 August 2019 - Tamu Hotel and Suites, Kampung Baru

As a follow up to the first workshop on Futures Literacy, this workshop event seeks to immerse participants deeper in methodologies of futures studies and challenges them to develop their own skills and ideas for preferred futures in Malaysia. It will engage participants in an exclusive hands-on training that will challenge their current images and
perceptions and open their imagination to alternative future potentials and possibilities.

Workshop Programme

Timeline

I think therefore I am
I progress therefore I am
I shop therefore I am
I share therefore I am
Defined
Monolithic
Relative
Contradictory
I am tradition and culture
I am science and technology
I am what I buy
I am online
Simple, Closed
Complicated, Closed
Complex, Open
Open, Interconnected, Chaotic
Conquest, Supremacy, Progress
Progress, Efficiency, Modernization
Relativism, Plurality, Individuality
Complexity, Chaos, Contradictions
Spanish Flu (1918-1920)
HIV/AIDS
Zika Virus, MERS, SARS
COVID-19
Monogamy
Serial Monogamy
Serial, Multiple Monogamy
Hetero, Homo, Trans, Serial, Plural
Feral, To be Tamed, and Exploited
Under Control, but Limits to Growth
Social Construction of Nature
Mass extinction, Climate Change
Pursuit of Reasoned Inquiry
Scientific Progress and Development
Socially Constructed and Relative
Complex, Uncertainties, Ignorances
Science makes work easier
Ideologically driven for "progress"
Biotechnology & Genome Sequencing
AI, Human-Machine Synthesis
Male, Female
Male, Female, (Closet Gays)
Male, Female, LGBTQ+
Undefined