Reworlding Planetary Governance

On March 14, 2025, 35 students from Arizona State University (ASU) and the Université Paris Cité / Learning Planet Institute (LPI), as well as young members of Je m’engage pour l’Afrique (JMA), gathered in Paris for a UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab titled Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance.

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 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. 

We invite you to read the Outcome Report of the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Reworlding Planetary Governance: Youth Contributions To The Implementation Of The UN Declaration Of Future Generations. The report is accessible via the 'Outcome Report' Tab above. 

Outcome Report of the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Reworlding Planetary Governance: Youth Contributions To The Implementation Of The UN Declaration Of Future Generations.

This report, published on UNESCO's Futures Literacy and Foresight collection, was prepared by UNESC0-MOST BRIDGES Coalition; ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory & Learning Planet Institute, based on youth contributions arising from the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab.

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. 

Access the report here: Reworlding Planetary Governance.pdf