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The Futuring Lab™
A Story-Powered Futures Literacy Experience for Students
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Currently launching pilot partnerships with select schools.
Now booking for Fall/Winter 2025 cohorts.
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What is The Futuring Lab™?
In a world of accelerating change, the ability to imagine and prepare for multiple futures is critical. The Futuring Lab equips students with essential 21st-century skills by blending imaginative storytelling with purpose-driven technology fluency.
Futures Literacy
Cultivates the capacity to imagine, prepare for, and adapt to multiple possible futures.
Strategic Imagination
A powerful engine fusing storytelling, emerging tech, and critical thinking for adaptability and creativity.
AI-Powered Prototyping
Students design narrative and media prototypes using generative AI, engaging with science and culture.
Through speculative fiction and real-world science, The Futuring Lab empowers students to shape the future, not just inherit it.
The Futuring Lab—Intensive, out-of-school time or elective
What
A 4–6 week immersive program where a cohort of students will engage in the Futures ALCHEMY™ method—a human centered framework for transforming disruption and uncertainty into bold, actionable visions of tomorrow.
Format
In small collaborative teams, students investigate the roots of innovation, imagine future possibilities, and design narrative or media-based prototypes—like Odyssey of the Mind with a futures twist.
Why
Students build futures literacy while strengthening creativity, critical thinking, and agency. They learn to see technology not just as a tool to master, but as a medium for self-expression, imagination, and strategic empowerment.
The Futuring Lab —School-Wide: Homeroom or Advisory Period Integration
What
A fun, light-touch futures literacy program where students explore “the future of” different fields through collaborative inquiry, creative projects, and collective intelligence-building.
Format
Daily or weekly micro-sessions embedded in homeroom or advisory periods help students build imagination muscles and future-ready mindsets.
Why
Cultivates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking across the whole student body while building a shared sense of belonging in the innovation ecosystem.

Sports Analogy
Just as athletes train their bodies and skills every day, students can train their imagination and futures thinking muscles through small, consistent practice. A brief daily or weekly Futuring Lab session helps build these mental habits—sparking curiosity, creativity, and strategic thinking as naturally as sports practice builds strength and coordination. Over time, these daily "imagination reps" can fuel the breakthroughs students bring to larger projects, competitions, and real-world challenges. Futures thinking is like athletics for the mind—you build strength and confidence through daily practice, so you're ready when the big moments come.
Custom Futuring Labs
Futuring Labs can be tailored to your learning goals and co-developed with your school to meet your student's needs.
Booking & Contact
To inquire or explore customized labs, please complete the contact form.
Inspiring Kids to Shape Tomorrow
In this snippet from the panel at ESSENCE Festival 2024, Dr. Ford shares her vision for using AI to help kids iterate futures.
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