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Journal of Education & Social Sciences - Volume 12, Issue 1 2024
By Dr. Salman Ahmed Khatani, Dr. Shams Hamid, Sobia Anwer
10.20547/jess1212412103
Keywords: Futures Literacy, Climate Change Resilience, Anticipatory Processes, III Approach, Vulnerability in Pakistan, Sustainable Adaptation
This article presents the innovative Futures Literacy Lab (FLL) in Pakistan in response to the country's high sensitivity to climate change and the need for Futures Literacy. Pakistan has the fifth-highest climate vulnerability in the world despite less than 1% of the world's emissions coming from the country, and record-breaking extreme weather events have made the situation more dire. The FLL was organized around the Novel III framework—Intuition, Interpretation, and Innovation—to inspire participants to realize their potential to imagine and prepare for climateresilient futures. IMAGINE – Institute of Futures Studies hosted it with Iqra University. Through interactive workshops and scenario-building exercises, the FLL enabled participants to challenge assumptions, create climate action strategies that are still possible to implement and explore working together toward community-led resilience. The FLL also integrates local knowledge alongside global futurists and identifies futures literacy as the key to shifting our responses to climate change from reactive to proactive, focusing on sustainable agriculture, water management, and urbanization. The present study highlights the need for embedding anticipatory processes such as futures literacy into climate resilience pathways in Pakistan and other countries vulnerable to climate change if ethical, equitable, and transformative climate resilience strategies are to be designed.