Decolonizing Futures: Perspectives from the Global South
This initiative seeks to explore decolonial futures thinking and practices through the lens of Global South communities, focusing on how indigenous knowledge systems, cultural worldviews, and historical legacies can reshape futures studies. By centering Global South voices, this project aims to map Global South perspectives in foresight and discuss participatory approaches and narrative-based futures that honor the unique temporalities, insights and contexts of the Global South. Through the Hunome platform, this initiative will offer a mechanism to discuss futures studies that are rooted in Global South values, solidarity and societal transformation.
WW times of the session
Mexico: 7am - 9am
New York: 8am - 10am
Rio de Janeiro: 10am - 12pm
Johannesburg: 3pm - 5pm
Islamabad: 6pm - 8pm
Manila: 9pm - 11pm
How to Register
Register in advance for this meeting here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Humanathon session.
All participants must register on https://hunome.com before the session and after receiving the above email.
The goals of this Humanathon
Specifically, it aims to:
Surface the unique perspectives of the Global South on futures studies and practices.
Unpack and scan Global South methodological approaches, case studies and professional growth opportunities and challenges.
Connect to broader movements complementing and diverging from current studies and practice.
Interactive participant engagement by leveraging the Hunome sensemaking platform
Position decolonization within Futures Studies and Practice.
Led by the Global South Futures Community, Futures Resources and Hunome this initiative engages foresight practitioners, researchers, activists, and educators from across the Global South. The project will also collaborate with international partners, universities, organizations and grassroots communities to ensure broad participation and cross-cultural knowledge exchange. This project emphasizes collaborative exploration that draws on the diverse scholarship, practice, cultural, ecological, and social contexts of the Global South. This initiative represents a vital step toward decolonizing futures studies and practice, offering new conversations and surfacing paradigms and frameworks that honor the diversity of the Global South.
What is a Humanathon?
Humanathon is a program that runs on the Hunome product.
Humanathon is a program to move wicked themes forward in our societies. A Humanothon is a global human-aware ‘marathon’ as the wicked themes are ongoing and dynamic. It is designed to bring people from diverse backgrounds together to explore complex issues related to the human experience. You can take leadership on a theme that needs multidimensional understanding and that you want to build concerted systematic attention with a group. The Hunome product is there to use and our team helps the leads set this up with materials.
About Hunome
Hunome is uniquely designed to build shared understanding with collective sensemaking. The SparkMap is a non-linear, evolving, multi-dimensional, map of understanding on the theme. SparkMaps are a great way to visualize the understanding that a group of people have on a particular theme.