Foresight in Brussels Capital Region POLI group

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IRIS FUTURES

• Foresight in Brussels Capital Region
  POLI group

Research conducted with the support of
Prospective Research for Brussels of the BCR
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Objectives

• Exploration of the potential role of foresight
  for the development of the Brussels Capital
  Region (BCR)
• Know current prospective activities
• Understand local images and views of the future
• Test methods en techniques
• Identify use-value of futures thinking to local
  actors
• Recommendations and tools

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The BCR research context

• Teritorial Urban region
• Scale1 researcher for 2 years
• Foresight track recordlimited for most actors

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Project strategy

• ? explorative research with open questions
• ? varying research-methods in a single
  research-design

N e t w o r K
W e b s i t e
Database prospective activities
L i t e r a t u r e
Intangibles
S c o p i n g
100 futures conversations
Media content
Report
Description Analysis Recommendation
6 thematic workshops
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Actors and their activities

• The first part of the research produces
• A database of prospective activities in Brussels
• An analysis of actor types and their activities
  
• This is the first ever description of the
  landscape of prospective activity in the BCR,
  offering the institutional sponsor (IRSIB) the
  benefits of
• an address book for foresight in the BCR
• the identification of expertise
• situating actors and activities analytically in
  the context of the BCR

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The database

• Activities included in the database
• Not strictly or exclusively foresight / FTA / la
  prospective
• Explicit time horizon gt 5 years
• Four actor types included in the database
• Governement / public administration
• Industry / companies
• Education / research
• Socio-cultural / civic organisations

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Themes

• Urban infrastructure

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Themes

• Urban infrastructure
• Creativity

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Themes

• Urban infrastructure
• Creativity
• Learning

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Themes

• Urban infrastructure
• Creativity
• Learning
• Welfare well-being

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Themes

• Urban infrastructure
• Creativity
• Learning
• Welfare well-being
• Europe in Brussels

• Drivers and objects of change
• ICT
• Globalisation
• Sustainability
• Equity
• Community
• Interculturality

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A starting point for FTA in the BCR

• Recognition of local foresight potential in
  Brussels
• Recognition of specific local bariers and
  constraints
• Evaluation of use-value of foresight methods
• Strategies to stimulate foresight in the BCR
• Inspiration and orientation for all scales of
  prospective activity in the BCR
• IF prepares the ground for future FTA with a
  birds-eye view on the state of foresight in the
  BCR.