Using the Future

In a world where traditional decision-making frameworks are showing their limitations, the need is growing for knowledge, tools, and processes that enable more effective long-term thinking in decision-making.

Since our founding in 1969, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)has been an active participant in the futures and foresight field. Over the decades, the field has evolved significantly. Foresight has seen a methodological expansion, an institutionalisation of its practices, as well as broader integration and participation across different decision-making arenas.

And yet, the foresight field, like the future it seeks to explore, is not shielded from the forces of change.

You will find contributions on anticipatory leadership as a way to align leadershipstyles with emerging future conditions, on building societal resilience through participatory foresight, on navigating the business realities of corporate foresight, and on embedding foresight into governance and political decision-making processes. We also open up new conversations about what foresight could become in an AI-mediated world, and about how time itself shapes organisational life