About Us
In the following pages you will find information about the World Futures Studies Federation, beginning with a brief introduction to futures studies as a field.
Please use the links to the left to find information about the WFSF Executive Board, WFSF members, the Ibero American Chapter, our constitution, and our history including previous conferences.
The WFSF is a forum where the stimulation, exchange, and examination of ideas, visions, and plans for alternative, long-term futures can take place. The Federation promotes and encourages futures studies as well as innovative interdisciplinary analysis and critique by:
- Promoting a higher level of futures consciousness in general;
- Stimulating cooperative research activities in all fields of futures studies;
- Encouraging the democratization of futures-oriented thinking and acting;
- Planning and holding regional and global futures studies conferences and courses;
- Stimulating awareness of the urgent need for long-term thinking in governments, policy-making and educational institutions, to resolve problems at local, national, regional, and global levels;
- Assisting local and global futures research activities;
- Encouraging responsibility for future generations.
The WFSF seeks to assure complete freedom of activity and discussion among its members and within the Federation. To achieve this goal, the Federation seeks close cooperation with educational, scientific, cultural, artistic, and other institutions, associations, and organizations in all fields of futures studies, especially within the United Nations family.
