Celebrating World Futures Day session: Reworlding Planetary Governance: Youth Contributions to the Implementation of the UN Declaration of Future Generations.

Celebrating World Futures Day Session - Outcomes of UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab on Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance.  

2 December, 16:00-17:00 CET, Room VII, UNESCO HQ, Paris. 

Steven Hartman, Executive Director of BRIDGES, will be joined by Nsah Mala from the BRIDGES University of Cologne Hub, for a Futures Workshop Session at World Futures Day 2025, along with Maria Angelica Mejia, and students, from Learning Planet Institute (LPI), to present the outcomes of our Futures Lab on anticipatory governance co-organized earlier this year. 

The Lab was organized as one of the first in a series of carry-through activities following the UN Summit of the Future (20-23 September 2024) orientated toward implementation of the Pact of the Future outcome document, as framed in the side event From Idea to Action and Impact: Mobilizing the outcomes of the Summit of the Future.

Designed in collaboration with the UNESCO Futures Literacy team and the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, the Lab was hosted at the Learning Planet Institute (LPI).

The goal of the lab was not to predict what may come next, but to practice different ways of seeing, sensing, conceptualizing, and shaping what might be possible by imagining and developing plausible scenarios for the future. 

With student participants from many regions and backgrounds around the world, including groups from LPI,  ASU and Je m’engage pour l’Afrique (JMA), under the expert facilitation of Iveta Silova, Joni Adamson, Nsah Mala, Maria Angelica,  Edward Stevenette, Léa Chaussis and Camille Guinet. 

This Celebrating World Futures Day session, one of several Futures Workshops, will present outcomes of this Futures Literacy lab drawing from the published Report produced from the Lab, where participants questioned: 

What if the very act of learning could be planetary?

What if a university could be a place not only of knowledge, but of responsibility, reciprocity, and regeneration? 

And what if governance made space for those who have never been allowed to speak—rivers, trees, future generations, and the systemically unheard?

The students themselves were the driving force of the Lab, and this session at World Futures Day provides the opportunity to revisit their rich contributions and insights.

The Report can be accessed here.

The Programme for World Futures Day 2025  can be accessed here.

Please register via the UNESCO Event Page to attend the various sessions, including this one. 

This Futures Workshop  - Outcomes of UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab on Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance - will be taking place in Room VII. From 16:00-17:00 CET. 

Please refer to the Programme for exact information on rooms and timings of sessions.