Workshop/Dialogue facilitated for the MunaTo People of the Province of Saranggani. Organized by the Maharlika Artists and Writers Federation and the Provincial Government of Saranggani

3. Approach
The "first
peoples”
alternative
futures
INSPECT
SCENARIOS
Futures
Triangle
Sarkar
Game

4. plural futures/foresight/prospectiva

5. unlock the future, to undo it from so-called
default futures or official futures predicted by
experts, banks, corporations, news headlines,
individuals, etc.
In fact, futures studies are not at all about
prediction as the future cannot be known.

6. To Jim Dator, “there are no future facts and
there are no past possibilities”
Futures studies are concerned with creating the
future rather than predicting it.

7. Basic futures concepts
• Preferred future - desired
• Probable future – likely based on current
trends and strategies
• Possible futures – full range of alternatives
(Sohail Inayatullah, 2012)

8. Core futures thinking
• Not one future but futureS
• Humans have agency, they can influence the
future
• The image of the future pulls toward a future
• Question assumptions to create alternative
futures (Sohail Inayatullah, 2012)

9. Is the future of the first people
nations/communities colonized?

10. Why indigenous community foresight?
• Explore and develop a model for the future of the
first people of Saranggani and the future
generations
• Gain insight from our engagements and exciting
discussion and act on it!
• We are all eligible to create the future
• Reconfigure the present from the future
• Purpose is not merely to forecast but to create
the future that we want for Saranggani

11. Why indigenous community foresight?
• Re-emergence of the cultural
• Wave of cultural power
• The emerging cultural infrastructure epidemic
• Modernity is shaping/morphing to fit with
culture/local/spiritual – Transmodernism

12. Re-emergence of the indigenous
culture/peoples/communities

14. Munato Alternative Futures?
• What will the future be like in the year 2040?
• What are your fears about the future?
• What are your hopes, your visions of the future?
• What is missing? Are there hidden assumptions,
things that we took for granted from the future
forecasted or desired?
• What is your preferred, your desired future?
• What actions can we take to achieve that
preferred future? (Thanks to Sohail)

15. 1. STEEP Scanning (30 mins)
What are the issues, events, developments that
might influence (drivers. Influencers) the future of
Munato in the years to come?
Social –
Technological –
Environmental –
Economic –
Political -

16. STEEP Analysis

17. Scenarios

18. The future enters into us, in order to transform
itself in us, long before it happens
Rainer Maria, Letter to a Young Poet