Have you ever thought about what

a conscious future designer is?

My name is Erica Bol

and I work for the Joint Research Centre

at the EU Policy Lab.

I call myself a conscious future designer.

This means we think about the future together

and try to shape it in a positive way.

The main mission is to support long term

thinking in governance to help our policymakers

to use that knowledge so that they can design

better policies, not only serving today,

but also serving tomorrow.

So one of our great projects is called Futures Garden.

We use artifacts, tangible objects

like backpacks, radioshows, movies,

that help us enlive that possible

futures that are out there to explore.

What do we need to do?

What can we start experimenting with today

to support bringing that future come to life?

We're very proud, as the Joint Research Centre,

to have been able to support

Commissioner Micallef in the design

of his strategy for intergenerational fairness.

This is a strategy not only supporting today,

but really diving into the opportunities

to support also the future.

For the intergenerational fairness strategy,

we worked on collective visioning.

This means we bring everybody together,

use imagination, storytelling and ideas

to create and envision those futures

that we would like to see.

The JRC for me, is a space where we not only research the future,

but actually also actively experiment and act with it.