Per Koch

This tool guides participants through a Futures Literacy Lab, a practical method to help us reveal, reframe and rethink the assumptions we use to imagine the future. It draws on TIPC’s Nordic members’ experience of running a Lab in partnership with UNESCO and The Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education in 2021. … from Tool: Futures Literacy Lab

This document provides guidance for lead facilitators to work with the methodology developed by UNESCO Futures Literacy and tested by TIPC’s Nordic members in 2021. It explains how users can deliver a Lab online, using the accompanying Miro tool, which provides a canvas for a four-part workshop series.   … from Guidance for facilitators: Futures Literacy Lab

This presentation by Per Koch explores why new ways of learning are needed in policymaking to address today’s complex societal challenges. It highlights how mental and institutional lock-ins can prevent policy systems from responding effectively, as existing structures and routines are often not designed to deal with current environmental and social problems. The talk also … from Futures Literacy and the role of anticipation in Third Generation innovation policy

In this engaging recording from a Nordic hub event in 2022, Per Koch from the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education connects Futures Literacy to Transformative Innovation Policy. Per highlights the implicit beliefs present in First, Second and Third Frame thinking, and the importance of anticipatory practice for researchers and policy makers … from Why is futures literacy relevant for innovation and transformative innovation policy?

Riel Miller, Head of Futures Literacy at UNESCO, in conversation with Per Koch, special adviser at The Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), and editor of Forskningspolitikk (Research Policy). This is one of three Café Conversations at TIPC’s 2021 Nordic learning series.   … from Café conversations: How can we use the future in innovation policy learning?

This brief summarises the main reflections and images which emerged from a Futures Literacy Laboratory on ‘Futures Literacy and Transformative Innovation Policy’, held online during 1-2 November 2021. The aim for the Lab was to mobilise the collective intelligence of a diverse group of experts, researchers and practitioners with an interest in Transformative Innovation Policy and … from Report of the Futures Literacy Laboratory 2021

Blog and videos for the Nordic fireside chat series, a collection of conversations between policymakers and researchers from Norway, Sweden and Finland to share learning on co-creation.    Throughout history people have sat by the fire and created meaning. They’ve established stories; deepened relationships; and bonded over shared experiences from the day. So in this … from At the Nordic Fireside: Conversations on co-creation between researchers and policymakers