Peter Hayward: "Pracademia", Futures Games, and Futurepod

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4Sight Chats

Alex Fergnani

16 episodes

3 days ago

This video podcast promotes voices of public intellectuals & thought leaders (and their books!) on a range of topics including futures studies & foresight, metamodernism, organizational behavior, strategic management, psychology, Eastern Asian philosophies, and more importantly on the transdisciplinary combination of all the above. Its aim is to share pieces of wisdom applicable to personal and organizational life for those who study, create, design, and facilitate the futures.

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Peter Hayward: "Pracademia", Futures Games, and Futurepod - 4Sight Chats Ep. 10

4Sight Chats

1 hour 37 minutes 23 seconds

4 years ago

Peter Hayward: "Pracademia", Futures Games, and Futurepod - 4Sight Chats Ep. 10

10th episode of the 4Sight Chats Series, with Peter Hayward. Peter is a "pracademic" with two decades of experience in teaching foresight to passionate and skillful people. He is also the co-host of Futurepod, one of the most well regarded and long-lasting podcasts in futures & foresight. Alex is PhD candidate at NUS Business School (Singapore), and Associate Editor of the journal "World Futures Review".

Chat Outline:

- Using foresight to solve clients' problems

- The Sarkar Game in organizational contexts

- The Polak Game in organizational contexts

- The resistance to futures & foresight in business schools

- Futurepod: why it was launched and lessons learnt

Available in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SLdG9fU_zA

The previous conversation between Alex and Peter (Futurepod ep.89): https://www.futurepod.org/podcast/2020/10/24/ep-89

Mentioned sources:

Fergnani & Sweeney (2021). Identity wind tunneling: A method for finding an organization’s strategic identity using scenarios: upcoming

The Sarkar Game, Teach the Future Library: https://library.teachthefuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sarkar-Game.pdf

Galtung & Inayatullah (1997). Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: https://www.amazon.sg/Macrohistory-Macrohistorians-Perspectives-Individual-Civilizational/dp/0275957551

Hayward and Candy (2017). The Polak Game, or Where do You Stand?: https://jfsdigital.org/articles-and-essays/2017-2/the-polak-game-or-where-do-you-stand/ Futurepod: https://www.futurepod.org/

Additional references:

Inatyatullah (2013). Using Gaming to Understand the Pattern of the Future: https://jfsdigital.org/articles-and-essays/2013-2/vol-18-no-1-september-2013/article/using-gaming-to-understand-the-patterns-of-the-future-the-sarkar-game-in-action/

The Sarkar Game, Prout Globe: https://proutglobe.org/2012/09/the-sarkar-game/

The Polak Game, or Where do You Stand? by Fearless Culture Design: https://www.fearlessculture.design/blog-posts/the-polak-game-where-do-you-stand

The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future, By Boingboing.net: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/01/contestable-futures.html

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