{"id":1339,"date":"2010-11-11T17:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T00:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2010-11-11T23:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T06:49:28","slug":"whats-your-dream-for-the-future-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/whats-your-dream-for-the-future-of-california","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Your Dream for the Future of California?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

California Dreams Video 1<\/a> from IFTF<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCES CALIFORNIA DREAMS:
A CALL FOR ENTRIES ON IMAGINING LIFE IN CALIFORNIA IN 2020 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Put yourself in the future and show us what a day in your life looks <\/em>like. Will California keep growing, start conserving, reinvent itself, or <\/em>collapse? How are you living in this new world? Anyone can enter,<\/em>anyone can vote; anyone can change the future of California!<\/em><\/p>\n

California has always been a frontier\u2014a place of change and innovation, reinventing itself time and again. The question is, can California do it again? Today the state is facing some of its toughest challenges. Launching today, IFTF\u2019s California Dreams<\/a> is a competition with an urgent challenge to recruit citizen visions of the future of California\u2014ideas for what it will be like to live in the state in the next decade\u2014to start creating a new California dream.<\/p>\n

California Dreams<\/a> calls upon the public look 3\u201310 years into the future and tell a story about a single day in their own life. Videos, graphical entries, and stories will be accepted until January 15, 2011. Up to five winners will be flown to Palo Alto, California in March to present their ideas and be connected to other innovative thinkers to help bring these ideas to life. The grand prize winner will receive the $3,000 IFTF Roy Amara Prize for Participatory Foresight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWe want to engage Californians in shaping their lives and communities\u201d said Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of IFTF<\/a>. \u201cThe California Dreams contest will outline the kinds of questions and dilemmas we need to be analyzing, and provoke people to ask deep questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entries may come from anyone anywhere and can include, but are not limited to, the following: Urban farming, online games replacing school, a fast food tax, smaller, sustainable housing, rise in immigrant entrepreneurs, mass migration out of state. Participants are challenged to use IFTF\u2019s California Dreaming map as inspiration, and picture themselves in the next decade, whether it be a future of growth, constraint, transformation, or collapse.<\/p>\n

The grand prize, called the Roy Amara Prize, is named for IFTF\u2019s long-time president Roy Amara (1925\u22122000) and is part of a larger program of social impact projects at IFTF honoring his legacy, known as The Roy Amara Fund for Participatory Foresight<\/a>, the Fund uses participatory tools to translate foresight research into concrete actions that address future social challenges.<\/p>\n

PANEL OF COMPETITION JUDGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gina Bianchini<\/strong>, Entrepreneur in Residence, Andreessen Horowitz<\/a><\/p>\n

Alexandra Carmichael<\/strong>, Research Affiliate, Institute for the Future<\/a>, Co-Founder, CureTogether<\/a>, Director, Quantified Self<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Cooper<\/strong>, The Urban Water Research Center<\/a>, UC Irvine<\/a><\/p>\n

Poppy Davis<\/strong>, Executive Director, EcoFarm<\/a><\/p>\n

Jesse Dylan<\/strong>, Founder of FreeForm<\/a>, Founder of Lybba<\/a><\/p>\n

Marina Gorbis<\/strong>, Executive Director, Institute for the Future<\/a><\/p>\n

David Hayes-Bautista<\/strong>, Professor of Medicine and Health Services,UCLA School of Public Health<\/a><\/p>\n

Jessica Jackley<\/strong>, CEO, ProFounder<\/a><\/p>\n

Xeni Jardin<\/strong>, Partner, Boing Boing<\/a>, Executive Producer, Boing Boing Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Jane McGonigal<\/strong>, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Rachel Pike<\/strong>, Clean Tech Analyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson<\/a><\/p>\n

Howard Rheingold<\/strong>, Visiting Professor, Stanford<\/a> \/ Berkeley<\/a>, and theInstitute of Creative Technologies<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiffany Shlain<\/strong>, Founder, The Webby Awards<\/a>
Co-founder International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n

Larry Smarr<\/strong>
Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)<\/a>, Professor, UC San Diego<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>DETAILS<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>WHAT:<\/em> An online competition<\/a> for visions of the future of California in the next 10 years, along one of four future paths<\/a>: growth, constraint, transformation, or collapse. Anyone can enter, anyone can vote, anyone can change the future of California.<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/em> Launch \u2013 October 26, 2010
Deadline for entries \u2014 January 15, 2011
Winners announced \u2014 February 23, 2011
Winners Celebration \u2014 6 \u2013 9 pm March 11, 2011 \u2014 open to the public<\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/em> http:\/\/californiadreams.org<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>For more information on the California Dreaming map or to download the pdf, click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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