Themes of the UNESCO Chair on Learning for Transformation and Planetary Futures are elaborated from a data-oriented perspective in a now published chapter in the compilation book Practices of Futurecasting, edited by Michael Shamiyeh (Birkhäuser, 2024). Shamiyeh is the founder of Center for Future Design (c-fd.eu) and UNESCO Chair in Linz, Austria.

Co-Chair Nicolas Balcom Raleigh’s contribution, titled ‘Learning and Transforming with Planetary Futures’ explores several ways computational data is used to generate models of Earth’s futures, speculates about new forms of computing that future people may use, and offers an exercise that can help businesses and organizations close the gap between data-driven models of the future and action.

The exercise encourages intersubjective meaning-making by imagining futures situated in relationships.

Other notable people from the futures field are featured in the book including Laurent Bontoux, Caroline Bassett, Loes Damhoef, Josef Hargrave, Sohail Inayatullah, Trudi Lang, Alexander Mankowsky, Riel Miller, Cynthia Selin, Stefan Wally, Angela Wilkinson, plus more.

The book can be ordered at the publisher’s website.