Futuring with mountains

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Names

  • Futuring With Mountains
  • Futuring Mountains

Origin

  • Coined by Elaine France, a Strategic Foresight Practitioner in Zurich, in 2023
  • Originally used in her workshops of the same name, starting with "Futuring Mountains" and later edited to "Futuring With Mountains".

Definitions and Descriptions

  • To engage with strategic foresight and regenerative futures through the lens of mountains and "along with" mountains.
  • Elaine France describes futures as stories that mountains are telling through you. She describes mountains as essential beings serving as home to glaciers and water cycles that nurture and feed life.

Events

  • "Futuring Mountains", Workshop led by Elaine France, Online, February 06, 2025. "In this interactive session, we'll step into futures where high mountains are recognized as living entities in respective countries' national legislation and explore: What's already emerging and happening today that leads us there? What assumptions are being made about mountains today? What might be potential impacts and consequences for different communities?"
  • "Futuring Mountains", Workshop led by Elaine France, Online, March 06, 2025
  • "Futuring Mountains", Workshop led by Elaine France, Online, March 21, 2025 as part of UN World Day for Glaciers

See Also

Futurisms, Ecofuturisms, Regenerative Futurisms, Flora Futurisms, Fauna Futurisms, Terra Futurisms, Nature Futurisms, Mountain Wisdom, Mountain Thinking, Mountain Consciousness

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