Welcome

to the future!

Future Centers are powerful platforms for collaborative innovation that help users to transform reality. 

FCA is an exciting and diverse alliance of pioneering people and organizations that believe that "the best way to understand the future is to help create it".

You are welcome to explore with us the art and practice of shaping the future. 

 

prototype new services, products, solutions and ways of working

 

address complex social, economic, ecological, urban and political challenges

generate profound and sustainable impact

and help co-create the future

 

What are Future Centers

 

Future Centers are facilitated  thinking, working and meeting places.

They act as plaforms for collaborative innovation.  

Here, people and organizations >

 

 

The combination of a specific set of Operating Principles is what makes the Future Center a unique and powerful platform for organizational renewal and innovation. Click to discover them

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The FCA is a global community of Future Centers and similar dedicated innovation environments, as well as Future Center practitioners.

 

These organizations and people share a passion for creating sustainable solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s challenges by nurturing collaboration and the freedom to think differently, learning from culturally diverse wisdom, sharing concepts widely and producing outcomes that can be successfully implemented.

 

Learn why you should join the FCA community, and how.

Fuji Xerox KDI
Fujitsu Minato-Mirai I&FC
Japan Future Centers
Pisga Be'er Sehva
FutureLand
MAD
The Shipyard
The Dialogues House
LEF
FuTour Mobile FC
Telecom Italia FC
FC UK
ThinkLab
MindLab
Skandia FC
Real World Future Centers

Always navigating the past, present and the future….

 

Learn about the look, feel, action and impact of several  real-world future centers

The Future Centers Summits

Since 2005, the Future Center Summits have served as an opportunity for the members of the international Future Center community to meet, exchange experiences, learn from each other, explore new ideas and launch new joint initiatives.Each summit has a special theme and a unique format but they all share the principles and core values of Future Centers by mixing play and serious work, learning and doing.

Summit 5

The Netherlands: Dialogues, Courage (LEF) and Taxes

Summit 3

Stockholm: Social Innovation

Summit 2

Tuscany: Exploring the secretes of Leonardo da Vinci

Summit 1

The Netherlands: Discovering 5 Dutch Future Centers

 

2013

2011

Summit 4

 Tokyo: East meets west, west meets east

2008

2006

2005

A Virtual Visit

Here's a quick look at Future Centers in a film which was  made by the Country House Future Center in 2008.

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Resources

Great resources about the art and practice of Future Centers

Future Ideas

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The Shipyard, Breda, the Netherlands

The Shipyard, Breda, the Netherlands

Italia Telecom Future Center

Italia Telecom Future Center

The first Future Center: Skandia future Center, Waxholm

The first Future Center: Skandia future Center, Waxholm

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