An Interview with Riel Miller from UNESCO

The Nordic magazine for research and innovation policy (which is part of the Futures Literacy Norway network) has published an interview with Riel Miller, the "father" of Futures Literacy.

He says:

Riel Miller at a Futures Literacy event at the UNESCO
headquarters, Paris (P Koch)

"Future Literacy is a competence, a capacity. Like many competencies it is a multifaceted thing. It includes technical skills, processing skills, social skills, outcomes, awareness.

The term ‘literacy’ is used exactly because it refers to a capacity. Like reading and writing literacy, Futures Literacy is the ability to create and to understand and to share different reasons and methods for imagining the future.

The starting point is that the future does not actually exist. You have no choice but to use anticipatory systems and processes, to imagine a future. This is the case of conscious human anticipation. So we use our anticipatory systems and processes to create, fabricate, different imaginary futures.

The discipline of anticipation is the field of research and practice that explores the anticipatory processes in the world around us."

Read the whole interview with Riel Miller from UNESCO here.