Author Events

Tue, Jun 30, 2026

9:00 am PT 

Reimagining the Systems We Inherited: A Call for Cross-Sector Collaboration

What if reimagining our systems required new kinds of collaboration across sectors, borders, and ways of knowing?

Join IFTF on Tuesday, June 30 at 9am Pacific Time with Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen, Assistant Research Professor in Principled Innovation at the Global Futures Office of Research Development and Strategy at Arizona State University, for a live conversation exploring the visionary frameworks at the heart of her bold new book, Education and Decolonial Futures in the Philippines: Perspectives for Educators and Practitioners. Braiding personal story, historical reckoning, and futures thinking, this conversation explores how inherited systems shape what we believe is possible and what it takes to transform them through cross-sector action. We’ll unpack how her Decolonial Design Futures Framework has traveled across contexts and can be applied across sectors and borders. Whether you’re a scholar, civic innovator, nonprofit leader, technologist, or policy architect, this is your invitation to build unlikely alliances to reimagine what’s possible beyond inherited structures.

WED, May 6, 2026

2pm EST

The Pattern Is Love: Sawali as Decolonial Futures Practice

What does love have to do with futuring? Bea Rodriguez-Fransen argues that Maternal Love—understood through Freire and hooks as educational and political commitment—is what sustains the long work of building liberatory futures. Drawing on the Filipino practice of sawali weaving, she demonstrates how patience, repair, and intergenerational knowledge-passing become methods for accountable, community-led worldmaking. Her Decolonial Design Futures Framework weaves together storytelling, reflection, imagination, and design justice into patterns of practice that honor non-linear time and collective care. Futuring, she suggests, is not imagination or strategy alone; it is love made actionable.