With the support of
Participation Programme
United Nations Educational , Scientific and
Cultural Organization
WFSF IN FOCUS
LEALA PT2
Maya Van Leemput on the World Futures Learning Lab
Each of the four local projects in 2014-2015 had a unique approach for accompanying participants in conceiving futures for themselves and their local and global environments . Local coordinators developed and defined the local programs according to local needs and possibilities . Thematic focus , educational methods , duration , pedagogic materials and participants ’ profiles were different in each case . All these learning labs , however , facilitated futures perspectives amongst groups of participants facing highly uncertain and undesirable futures and all the activities sought to have emancipatory impacts .
In this project cycle LEALA had a total of 94 participants including Vigan , Philippines ; Port-au-Prince , Haïti ; and Santa Martha Acatitla , Mexico as well as follow-up activities of the projects of the previous cycle in Malaysia and the Democratic Republic of Congo . The overall project gained visibility with LEALA presentations at two major futures conferences as well as a leaflet to introduce the project to external parties . Reports from the Finland Conference can be found here . The impact of successful partnerships set up through the project is not to be underestimated . Such partnerships are crucial to running low-cost , sustainable local courses . We have combined forces with a wide range of partners . For details see WFSF website .
Maya van Leemput is a professional futurist with an independent consulting and audiovisual practice . She is a part-time senior researcher at the Erasmus University College Brussels centre of expertise in Applied Futures Research – Open Time . She partners with visual artist Bram Goots on Agence Future ( AF ), a longterm project for exploring images of the future through conversation and intercultural experimentation .
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