Competency Area 4
Key competences:
Futures literacy, imagination, originality, adaptability, regenerative thinking, exploratory thinking, perspective-taking, active hope.
Examples of guidance
- Expand learners’ imagination for alternative worlds or pathways, through futures thinking integrating science, the arts and other creative and embodied approaches (futures literacy, imagination);
- Help learners identify and acknowledge the unavoidable impacts of climate change, while empowering them to envision collective action to reduce, adapt to, respond to, and recover from these impacts (adaptability);
- Explore scenarios of desirable futures, including regenerative futures, creating space for the learners’ dreams and visions that challenge unsustainable norms, cultures and structures (exploratory thinking, active hope).
Tools in this competence area
Tool 4.1. Exploring futures through art
Much of the world we live in today first existed in the imagination. The cities we live in, the smartphones we hold in our hands, the eco-villages we created… were…
Tool 4.2. Growing Futures Literacy
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…
Tool 4.3. Experience emergence
Games and improvisations create spaces where learners experience not-knowing and a widening of possibilities of what may come next. They build competences to operate in situations of volatility, uncertainty, complexity…
Tool 4.4. Designing for resilience and regeneration
This tool helps learners engage with the design of solutions to address climate change impacts on themselves, their communities and their ecosystems. It invites the group to go beyond the…