Innovations, future experiences, workshops, and international book launches at the opening "Dubai Future Forum"
Dubai, 18 November / WAM / The “Dubai Future Forum 2025” witnessed a series of qualitative events that included innovations from the future and technological experiences in virtual, augmented and extended reality, aiming to interactively engage the public in efforts to design a sustainable future and contribute to bringing about positive transformations, in addition to specialized workshops, and an integrated corner dedicated to the events of launching and signing books of the future with international writers, authors and publishers.
The interactive experiences available to visitors to the forum from more than 100 countries included many futuristic innovations, such as “Plants of the Future,” which is an experience that gives attendees the opportunity to design imaginary ecosystems that link digital nature with physical space and reimagine the future of the natural world, and “Forest Dialogue,” which is an interactive display that combines digital nature and real spaces, in addition to virtual reality displays such as “The Art of Change,” which is a hand-drawn virtual reality experience that explores the concepts of identity, memory, and self-dialogue between the present, the past, and the future, and “Protectors.” The Jungle, an immersive reality film that addresses the complementary relationship between human cognitive heritage and the sustainability of biodiversity.
The activities of the first day of the Dubai Future Forum 2025 also included a series of specialized workshops that presented strategic topics for imagining, designing and implementing the future. The Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies and the Think Beyond Foundation organized a workshop entitled “Individuals’ Perceptions of the Future” to explore how members of society can be positive future makers by stimulating dialogue, interaction and cooperation, and focusing on expanding the scope of future society’s thinking and global foresight.
Strategy& organized a workshop entitled “Scenario Labs: What If Imagination Became the Currency of the Future,” with the participation of many future experts, innovators, policy makers, and creators to participate in laying the foundations of the “Imagination Economy,” a new future model based on creativity.
In the “Practical Foresight: Realistic Solutions for the Future of Migration and Population Displacement” workshop held by the United Nations International Organization for Migration, participants from diverse sectors and regions discussed the future of migration using foresight and scenario planning methodologies, and the key factors and megatrends shaping human mobility. The Global Future College and the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Initiative also organized a workshop on “Alternative Methods of Foresight from Around the World.”
The integrated book corner that characterized this year’s session of the Dubai Future Forum witnessed the launch of a group of books related to the future by international writers and authors. Among them are the book Making Futures Work by Phil Balagtas, Collaborating by Adam Kahen, Buzzing Futures by Tim Seuss, Breaking Bias by Anu Gupta, and Exposure by Ramona Emerson.
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