IFTF Foresight Talk: Social Invention: From the ReConstitutional Convention to the Future of Democracy with JAKE DUNAGAN, Director of Governance Futures Lab, IFTF; STEPHEN DUNCOMBE, Professor of Media and Culture, New York University; JANE MCGONIGAL, Director of Game Research + Development, IFTF; CLORINDA ROMO, Program Officer, Open Government Partnership

IFTF's Governance Futures Lab (GFL) was formed over a decade ago to inspire and cultivate a generation of social inventors to reinvent governance. In 2013, the inaugural event of GFL was held in Palo Alto and in nine satellite locations around the world. This event, the ReConstitutional Convention (ReConCon), brought together constitutional law scholars, artists, designers, activists, explorers, political scientists, space scientists, civil servants, and others to envision how we might "reconstitute" ourselves for the 21st century.

Ten years later, the forecasts of systems breakdown that drove the urgency of the ReConCon are present. New pathways forward are still, now needed more than ever. Aired on Thursday, October 12, in this special session participants from the 2013 ReConCon reflect back on that experience, how it influenced them in the decade since, and what is needed now to help people pull together to meet the profound challenges facing humanity.

Learn about the variety of ways to learn foresight here: www.iftf.org/foresightessentials/

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