February 2003:

• 21 February:
  • added scenario building essay introducing the tools;
  • finished short explanation of the "Harman Fan," and uploaded the powerpoint example.
• 10 February:
  • finished formatting three Catalog of Tomorrow "writer's cuts:" deep sea, seti, deep space.
  • completed transcription of "Sermon and Prayer."
• 9 February:
  • finished uploading last class syllabus, "World Futures."
• anticipate --
  • more content: presentations transformed into essays, book reviews, excellent words, futures quotes, and research context stories, e.g., on my public health and epidemiology work;
  • more toys created and uploaded into the toybox;
  • global futures studies glossary; and
  • futures studies science fiction database.

January 2003

• Site redesign completed; still uploading content into pages.
• Built toybox and toy compartments; created "change chime:"
  • change chime;
  • impact spinner;
  • kaleidoscope;
  • image abacus;
  • hope engine; and
  • delta challenge.
• Established "Amazon Associate" links.

• Site redesign begins.
• Feedback and user interactivity:
  • "discussion space" bulletin board;
  • guestbook; and
  • site search.
• Established PayPal donation links.

• World Futures Studies Federation Conference, Kure, Japan -- photo album added.
• Concept and initial design discussions for the speculative fiction and futures glossary databases.

• Returned home to Oxford and waited for boxes of disks, files, and books to arrive via slow boat.
• Visited colleagues at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Center for Development Studies, and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

• Taught at the 2002 Summer Residential Intensive Session of the MS in Studies of the Future, University of Houston - Clear Lake:
  • FUTR 6132: Futures Research Methods II
  • FUTR 5931: Facilitating Planning and Foresight

• Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher with the Finland Futures Research Centre (Tulevaisuuden Tutkimuskeskus) at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Turun Kauppakorkeakoulu).
  • Taught TUTU 1, the introductory course in futures studies;
  • Offered presentations, including:
    • Strengths and Weaknesses in Common Futures Research Methods;
    • Foresight and Design Creativity;
    • Innovation and the Arts; and
    • Overview of Futures Studies (for Finland Futures Academy tutors).
  • Designed and facilitated foresight planning processes for university strategic planning as part of the Futures Learning project