Houston's APF Student winners | Hinesight....for Foresight

It is a great pleasure to announce that Houston Foresight Master’s student Miranda Mantey won 3^rd place in the Individuals Master’s category for the year’s APF Student Recognition Competition. Miranda received a Certificate of Achievement and a one-year student membership in APF as her prize. She entered her Framework Foresight project on “The Future of CRISPR-cas9.” Miranda look at the role of regulation in shaping this transformation technology and in particular focused on “To what extent will CRISPR be utilized as a medical and cosmetic therapy?

Miranda identified key drivers and explored how they might play out using the Scenario Archetype approach. Below is a snapshot of the drivers in the Transformation scenario.

Our second winner was in the Team Master’s Category, where the team of Hannah Kim, Tim Murphy, Tom Rau, Jonathan Torres won second place for their project “Gumby’s Uncertain Future.” It was carried out for World Futures class. The team envisioned a collapse version of the global future in 2035, using the Gumby character to describe how life would be different.

You can also view the other excellent Houston entries:

Nina Frankowski, The Future of Parenting
Clay Bunyard, The Future of Organizational Creativity

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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