UNESCO Chair

UNESCO Chair in Regenerative Futures

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The Regenerative Futures course, promoted by the UNESCO Chair in partnership with the Museum of Tomorrow and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), encourages the creation of collective projects focused on sustainable futures. Participants learn about sustainability, regeneration, and anticipatory tools to innovate in the present.

THE COURSE

The Regenerative Futures course aims to encourage the creation of collective transformation projects for more sustainable futures. Through the classes, participants will learn about and understand topics such as sustainability and regeneration, how to address futures through forecasting, foresight, and anticipation, and, finally, how to use the future to innovate in the present. The course is an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Planetary Well-being and Regenerative Anticipation, a partnership between the Museum of Tomorrow and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

MENU

The course is organized through the following topics:

Nature and Sustainability; Ecosophy and Regeneration; Affective and Non-Affective Capacities; Dealing with Futures: Foresight, Prospective, Anticipation; Anticipation for Emergence and for Futures; Open vs. Closed Utopias; Unconscious Anticipation: Stem Cells, Autopoiesis, Exaptation; Intuition, Duration, and Consciousness: Bergson's Philosophy Applied to Anticipation; Regenerative Anticipation; A Time: Ancestral Futures, Seeds of the Good Anthropocene, and Futures Literacy.

TEACHER

Fábio Scarano

Fábio Scarano

Engenheiro Florestal, Ph.D. em Ecologia e Professor Titular da UFRJ. Atuou nos painéis da ONU para o clima e biodiversidade e foi dirigente no Jardim Botânico do Rio, na Conservação Internacional e na Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Recebeu dois Prêmios Jabuti de Literatura na área de Ciências Naturais.

Fabio Scarano is a Full Professor of Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Curator of the Museum of Tomorrow, and Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Literacy in Futures, a partnership between the Museum of Tomorrow (Institute of Development and Management) and UFRJ. He has authored major national and international scientific panels on climate and biodiversity. He has won two Jabuti Literature Awards in the Natural Sciences category.

INFORMATION

  • July 14th to July 18th
  • 9am-1pm
  • Observatory of Tomorrow
  • Course offered by the Chair and the School of Tomorrow

TIMELINE

  • Registration: June 23rd to July 7th
  • Dates: July 14th to July 18th