Center for Futures Studies

The Futures Center has a new home

The JOPRO Center for Futures Studies — a living lab for use-inspired research in futures studies, philosophy, metascience, and strategy & systemic change — is pre-launch, at our new subdomain:

futures.jopro.org →

There you’ll find our approach, active work (FrontierMap, Field Guide to the Futures Ecosystem), what’s launching in 2026 (foundational papers, essay contest, micro-residency cohort, conference), the team, and the newsletter.

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Projects

Field Guide to Futures Ecosystem

Cartography of next-generation foresight organizations

FuturesResearch Management

JOPRO & the New Learning Ecosystem

Contextual, developmental, and trajectory-aware learning in interdisciplinary spaces

EducationLeadership +2

Steelmanning the Problem Space

Methodology for rigorous collaborative problem definition

Research ManagementPhilosophy

Publications

Preprint 2026

Landscape of Futurists: Toward a Cartography of Next-Generation Foresight Organizations

Jesse Parent

History of Science

Presentation 2023

Landscapes and Learning Objectives: FrontierMap and the Challenges of Imbuing Contextual Nuance into Research Practices

Jesse Parent

Hyperdigital Designs, University of Cambridge

EducationResearch Management

Members

Jesse Parent Co-Founder

Avery Lim Contributor

Jennifer Jiang Program Lead, Executive Advisor

Molly A. Kluck Contributor

Rafael Hernandez Advisor

N.T. Love Research Assistant

Programs & Initiatives

Data x Direction

Examining how data science practices and tools intersect with ethical decision-making, human-centered AI, and governance frameworks.

From Here to There: Strategy and Mentorship for Innovators

Exploring emerging narratives, directionality, and the future of human experience

Modernizing Mental Health

Bridging emerging research, technology, and practice to advance how we understand and support mental health