Long-term thinking

Our work in long-term thinking and anticipatory foresight takes a unique approach that anticipates possible futures to understand the future environment and optimise complex decision making. It relies on discourse, dialogue, and evidence-based thinking combined with horizon scanning and systems thinking.
speech
08.11.2024  

Academic Freedom

Sir Peter Gluckman's speech to the Tertiary Education Union.
Social cohesion & resilience

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Hema Sridhar and Sir Peter Gluckman
media release
23.04.2024  
NZ researchers drive work on international AI framework 
Technology futures

Long-term thinking
Two New Zealand researchers are leading the charge for an international policy guide and framework to evaluate AI and other new technologies.
Out of focus aerial shot of a crowd of people walking in a city.
update
28.03.2024  
Science system and university advisory groups announced
Long-term thinking
The Beehive Building, New Zealand's Parliament Building, against the Sun in Wellington.
perspective
29.10.2023  
Giving voice to our future
Social cohesion & resilience

Long-term thinking
In an op-ed for the NZHerald, Koi Tū director Sir Peter Gluckman and Koi Tū chair Bridget Coates encourage more meaningful conversations and a more future-oriented mindset to tackle the complex, multi-generational challenges that we face as a nation.
media release
13.06.2023  
Social cohesion straining at the seams
Social cohesion & resilience

Long-term thinking
New Zealand’s status as a cohesive high-trust nation is being strained by political, economic and environmental pressures, exacerbated by technological disruptors.
New Zealand traditional flax weaving handcraft
discussion paper
13.06.2023  
Addressing the challenges to social cohesion
Social cohesion & resilience

Long-term thinking
In this discussion paper, we explore factors that are potentially threatening to our society’s resilience.
Flooding inundates the highway in central North Island, New Zealand.
commentary
27.03.2023  
Risk listening: rethinking how we understand and manage risk
Risk assessment

Sustainability
Aotearoa New Zealand needs to set up a national risk assessment authority to better prepare the country for high-impact risks and disasters.
media release
27.03.2023  
National risk assessment authority needed to better prepare for risk
Risk assessment

Sustainability
Given New Zealand’s small size, a more coherent system of risk assessment and decision-making should be possible.
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Our themes

Future society

Social cohesion & resilience
Democratic innovation

Human potential

Wellbeing
Education
Youth mental health

Navigating change

Information environment
Sustainability
NZ’s place in the world
Technology futures

Informing policy

Long-term thinking
Risk assessment
Evidence to policy
Science diplomacy
Trust in science