Future Days 2025 will convene more than 600 global thinkers, creatives, and change-makers under the theme 'Towards Symbiotic Futures.' Through keynote speeches, labs, creative dialogues, and interactive showcases, the event will explore Governance Paradigms, Urban Resilience, and Collective Intelligence.

This movie is a way of connecting three domains that bring me joy currently:
- Strategic Foresight
- Spirituality
- AI
One of the goals is to draw attention to Foresight as one of the Top 5 cutting-edge skills identified in the UN 2.0 agenda, a plan that helps organizations prepare for the future.

I adapted the Scenario Planning method to explore three possible futures and bring them to life through cinematic storytelling.
The film also introduces two trained characters, Lina and Arun, within each scenario, making the movie less formal and more engaging.

I also wanted to show how AI can:
- Serve as a bridge between ideas and skills from different fields.
- Help us discover new aspects of human potential.

This movie isn’t flawless or complete - I’m not a filmmaker, and that’s okay. Its beauty lies in its imperfection, reminding us that sometimes, taking the step to create is more important than getting it perfect. 

Later Edit: The film EXPLORING FUTURES: SCENARIO PLANNING IN COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS was included in the non-competition program of the International "Cartoons about the Future Festival," dedicated to films created with the help of AI. It was screened five times during the event, held on March 28-30, 2025, at the Atom Pavilion at VDNkH, Moscow. The festival, organized by the ATOM Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific, Educational, and Communication Initiatives in collaboration with the Big Cartoon Festival team, featured free screenings of short and full-length animated films over three days, offering audiences a diverse selection of forward-thinking works.

The University of Turku’s Futures Knowledge Distillery is a research group that serves organisations whose goals are to develop their foresight skills and the ability to prepare for changes in the operating environment. Our service is based on the Finland Futures Research Centre’s 30 years of experience in future, combined with the expertise of eight faculties of scientific research at the University of Turku.

On this basis, we offer practical solutions for consciously making futures. Foresight can be seen as the most effective way to prepare for uncertainty, identify opportunities and create desirable futures.  

The concept of Future-Oriented Collective Intelligence (FOCI) offers a transformative approach to making sense of and addressing future challenges that are complex and interconnected. The topic will be at the centre of the Futures4Europe Conference that will take place on 15 - 16 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria, at the Skydome in Vienna’s thrilling 7th district.   

The Call for Abstracts is now closed and has been very successful with over one hundred high quality abstracts submitted and assessed on a double-blind review basis. We sincerely thank those of you who have submitted for the time and effort it took and appreciate your interest in our conference. The conference scientific committee and the reviewers focused on scientific quality, relevance to the conference theme and innovative research approaches, which resulted in a selection of highly relevant proposals of excellent quality. Abstracts that were considered closest to the conference theme are currently being assigned to sub-topics, tracks and sessions. As the final programme is in the works, please check back this page for further updates! 

The event will focus on three subtopics that correspond to the tracks of the Call for Papers: 

• Collective Intelligence for R&I Policy Making;
• Science as Collective Intelligence;
• Emerging practices and cultures in future-oriented collective intelligence.

The programme will consist of keynotes, parallel sessions with paper presentations and interactive formats. The final agenda will be shared closer to the event date. 

The Registration to the Futures4Europe Conference is now open here: REGISTRATION LINK 

The conference is free of charge, but registration is required to attend. Kindly register only if you intend to join us in person: spots are limited and hybrid or virtual attendance will not be possible You will be receiving a confirmation by email. Check back this page for the final programme and other details. If you have any questions, please contact us at futures4europe@ait.ac.at   

Selected papers will be published in the international bi-monthly Foresight journal by Emerald Publishing. 

The Conference is organised by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, as part of the Eye of Europe project, which envisions a more cohesive and influential R&I foresight community that contributes significantly, as collective intelligence, to shaping and guiding policy decisions. The project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe Research Programme under Grant Agreement n°101131738. 

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