Metafuture: Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević
METAFUTURE
Mapping Alternative Futures
Facilitating Transformative Change
Tools and frameworks to navigate complexity and create preferred futures.
METAFUTURE
Metafuture is an educational think tank exploring futures thinking, tools, and practice.
Our work is grounded in the Six Pillars model — helping individuals and institutions imagine alternative and preferred futures.
Metafuture is hosted by Dr Sohail Inayatullah and Dr Ivana Milojević.
Beyond headlines and trends
Metafuture provides methods and tools to understand deep change and actively participate in shaping personal, organizational, and planetary futures.
Six Pillars
See change across systems — from everyday events to deep cultural patterns.
Narrative Foresight
Step into new stories about who you are and the futures you want to create.
Insights from Macrohistory
Gain perspective by recognizing the patterns of history.
Proven futures methods based on decades of empirical, qualitative, and critical research and nearly a thousand workshops worldwide.
Start with the Basics
Begin with ideas and voices that shift perspective.
Learn & Practice
Tools, courses, and books to deepen your foresight practice.
DIGITAL TWIN
Your personal companion for futures thinking — guided by Metafuture’s methods.
Experience personalized guidance through our Digital Twin platform, featuring virtual mentorship from Professor Inayatullah, the world philosopher P.R. Sarkar.
WORKSHOP & COURSES
Practical learning experiences to build futures skills.
Explore guided programs designed for real-world challenges and meaningful change.
BOOKSTORE
A curated collection of Metafuture publications and recommended reading.
Discover Metafuture publications and recommended reading — available through our store and selected global publishers.
Become a Futurist
Learn how to use the future to change today.
Join 1500+ other professionals in learning how to use the future to change today, in embedding futures thinking in your own organization.
Satori Valez
psychologist
The most valuable takeaway for me was to realize the future is not predetermined – the future is an asset with many possibilities.
Stefanos Fotiou, PhD
Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations ESCAP
I would recommend Become a Futurist course to professionals and practitioners in a variety of organizations dealing with sustainable development who would like to experiment with a fresh out-of-the-box thinking methodology
Dr Susann Roth
MD, MPH, PhD, Principal Knowledge Sharing and Services Specialist, ADB
The importance of Sohail’s course is evident now: the global community experiences first-hand why futures thinking with all its tools like emerging issues analysis, scenario planning with radical change scenarios, and backcasting are important.