CLARITY Competence Area

Opening up to diverse climate-resilient and regenerative futures

GreenComp Competence Area

Envisioning sustainable futures

Why use this tool?

Futures Literacy and future thinking are rarely taught in schools and teacher training, although it is critical to discussing climate change, sustainability, resilience, regeneration, and transformation. Futures Literacy provides critical information and competences to reflect on our use of “the” future and make better-informed decisions in the present. It is not about creating a desirable vision of the future and defining steps to get there. Futures Literacy is about exploring how our different visions of the futures reveal what matters to us in the present and values we can embody today more courageously.


Activities in this tool

  • Envisioning the most beautiful future

    Envisioning the most beautiful future

    A simple exercise can be to imagine the most beautiful climate-resilient and regenerative future individually, and represent it (e.g. text, collage, drawing) before sharing it and reflecting with a group.…

    Activity number: 4.2.1

  • Futures Literacy Labs (FLL)

    Futures Literacy Labs (FLL)

    Futures Literacy Labs (FLLs) are based on a method developed by UNESCO following a 4-step process: making desirable and probable futures explicit, re-imagining/reframing the future, asking new questions about the…

    Activity number: 4.2.2