Category: publications

ON BOARD

Enric Bas, Director of FUTURLAB, has been appointed as Editorial Board member by JFS, a journal of reference in Futures Studies and Research worldwide. The Journal of Futures Studies (JFS) started in 1996 and is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the discipline of Futures Studies.…

SFRI – REPORT ON RESEARCH & INNOVATION POLICY IN H2020

Soon Available at the Publications Office of the European Union the SFRI-Report on Research and Innovation Policy in Horizon 2020, delivered April, 2017. Enric Bas, Director of FUTURLAB, is one of the co-authors and Editor of the Background Paper on Networking and Foresight, as member of the…

FORESIGHT & INNOVATION: EXPERIENCES FROM EU & LATAM

PROSPECTIVA E INNOVACIÓN. EXPERIENCIAS DESDE EUROPA Y LATINOAMÉRICA. El pasado mes de Octubre se publicó el segundo volumen de la Trilogía Prospectiva e Innovación, una obra colectiva que reúne a algunos de los prospectivistas más relevantes en el ámbito internacional, y donde se trata de dar…

“THE FUTURE INTERNET” IS OUT!

The book “The Future Internet: Alternative visions” (Springer), in which Enric Bas and Mario Guilló has had the pleasure of participating, is out! In this book, edited by Ryota Ono (Aichi University, Japan) and Jennifer Winter (University of Hawaii, USA), presents perspectives of some of the…

NEW PUBLICATION: EL FUTURO A DEBATE (LATINOAMERICA)

This week we have received the hard copies of Tomás Miklos and Margarita Arroyo new publication, in which we have had the pleasure of taking active part as co-authors, together with some of the most outstanding futurists in Latin America: Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Antonio Alonso Concheiro,…

NEW FORESIGHT PUBLICATION COORDINATED BY TOMAS MIKLOS

Enric Bas and Mario Guilló have been invited to participate in the international publication “El Futuro a Debate. Visiones y Concreciones Prospectivas”, edited in spanish language by Thomas Miklos (Director of INAE – National Institute of Consultancy, Mexico). It is a great honor to participate in…

FEDERICO MAYOR ZARAGOZA JOINS FUTURLAB

The former Minister of Education and General Director of UNESCO, and current President of the Foundation for a Peace Culture, will introduce, as writer of the prologue and guest speaker, the official presentation of the trilogy “Foresight and Innovation; a tribute to Emilio Fontela and Jesús…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 3

Since 2008 FUTURLAB and the FOUNDATION OF FUTURES STUDIES (B.A.T. Germany) are partners and use to work in joint projects. The participation of Enric Bas, as guest analyst, expert and co-author, in the books “Futures Expectations For Europe” and “United Dreams of Europe” (prologued by Jose…

EUROPE ENDLESS

What is Europe? And how do Europeans view their continent? Is Europe merely a supranational institution where everything is all about politics? Can we reduce it to a European Football Cup every 4 years? Or an annual Eurovision Song Contest? Is it just about laws and…

COOLHUNTING 2.0: BEYOND TRENDS

For many years, different media have pressented the coolhunters as an emerging professional profile who bases their work on detecting and analyzing consumer trends. In an effort to clarify certain aspects of the real work of coolhunter, FUTURLAB has worked together with Information Daily to prepare…

UNITED DREAMS OF EUROPE

Enric Bas, Director of Futurlab, has been Invited by Prof. Ulrich Reinhardt, Scientific Head of the Foundation for the Future of the British American Tobbaco (Hamburg, Germany) to participate as expert in a new project on the future of Europe called “United Dreams of Europe”. Prof.…

FORTHCOMING TRILOGY IN THE MEMORY OF EMILIO FONTELA

A Lunch at the Casino de Madrid, with Rafaela Fontela (widow of Prof. Fontela), Marcos de Miguel (Director of P&V Editorial), Jose Luis Ripoll (President Vodafone Foudation) and Jesús Moneo (Director Spanish Chapter Club of Rome) has been the starting point to prepare the presentation of…

SOULSIGHT VS ENRIC BAS

More than an interview, a conversation between the Director of Futurlab and Soulsight, a consultancy which has been pioneer in design thinking. For sure a cosmopolitan, innovative, fresh and rigorous firm and maybe one of the leading and most influential in design in Spain. The result…

DDI INTERVIEW ON DESIGN AND INNOVATION

Marcelo Leslabay, one of the most influent spanish experts in design, interviews Enric Bas, the Director of futurlab, for the DDI (Government Agency for the Development of Design and Innovation. Ministry of Science and Innovation). At the interview Marcelo and Enric discuss about the dialectic relationship…