What’s the difference between a generation and five minutes from now? The Dreams and Disruptions Game, developed by the Center for Engaged Foresight, turns that question into an immersive, gamified foresight experience—engaging players to navigate existential risks, randomness, and leadership archetypes. Globally recognized, it fosters futures literacy and inclusive imagination by stress-testing scenarios and rethinking resilience across disciplines.
At Generation1.ca, we were invited to participate in the Dreams and Disruptions game led by Shermon Cruz, PhD of the Centre for Engaged Foresight for the Canadian Foresight Network (CFN). As a professional community association committed to advancing immigrant local and global futures, Generation1.ca places immense value in strategic imagination that includes all voices—especially those shaping the future as citizens-in-transition and consumers-in-formation. This powerful game—globally recognized for its innovation and developed as part of Shermon’s PhD research at the University of the Sunshine Coast—challenges organizations and teams to navigate crises, leadership archetypes, and planetary disruptions through playful, anti-fragile scenario-building.
Kudos as well to Generation1.ca member Anna Barkhudarova who led the event for the CFN, and to fellow visionaries who reinforced through our game together that futures thinking must be imaginative, inclusive, and intentionally disruptive spanning every range of possibility. Generation1.ca continues to champion future ready innovation as a civic and cultural practice for a more pluralistic North America and world, and an important tenet of futures thinking is an embedded sense of global and local responsibility. We share many of these insights on local and global stages.
Check out some of these articles relevant to futures thinking:
Dreams and Disruptions: Gaming Anti-Fragile Futures by Shermon Ortega Cruz :: SSRN
The Tale of Three Futures: Conquest, Reverence or Reconciliation? * Journal of Futures Studies
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I am glad you enjoyed being part of the Canadian foresight network’s event and found the game inspirational.
Love to hear more about your initiatives and how we can collaborate.
Anna Barkhudarova, the founder of the Canadian foresight network