KBA13 ACADEMY
School of Futures Studies
Foresight, Emerging Change, and Alternative Futures
This School provides a focused digital learning environment for learners, researchers, educators, and professionals seeking rigorous, interdisciplinary knowledge. Its academic roadmap connects foundational concepts, contemporary debates, practical inquiry, and research-informed perspectives.
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School Overview
This independent, non-degree School supports flexible learning, critical thinking, ethical inquiry, and lifelong intellectual development. Content is designed to be academically credible, globally aware, and relevant to Southeast Asian contexts.
Academic Purpose
Build conceptual depth, research literacy, and responsible professional understanding.
Who It Is For
Students, researchers, educators, professionals, policy thinkers, and lifelong learners.
Learning Experience
Structured modules, academic readings, multimedia resources, assessments, and progress tracking.
Areas of Study
Strategic Foresight
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within strategic foresight.
Scenario Planning
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within scenario planning.
Emerging Technologies
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within emerging technologies.
Future Societies
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within future societies.
Risk and Uncertainty
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within risk and uncertainty.
Civilizational Trajectories
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within civilizational trajectories.
Future Governance
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within future governance.
Future Education
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within future education.
Global Transformations
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within global transformations.
Long-term Thinking
Explore foundations, key debates, methods, and responsible applications within long-term thinking.
Learning Pathways
Open Online Courses
A structured pathway being expanded through the School’s Preview Edition.
Professional Certificates
A structured pathway being expanded through the School’s Preview Edition.
Executive Education
A structured pathway being expanded through the School’s Preview Edition.
Micro-Credentials
A structured pathway being expanded through the School’s Preview Edition.
Masterclasses and Workshops
A structured pathway being expanded through the School’s Preview Edition.
Research Resources
A structured pathway being expanded through the School’s Preview Edition.
Course Preview
Foundations of Strategic Foresight
A research-informed introduction connecting core concepts with contemporary questions.
Level: Foundation · Format: Self-paced digital learning
Applied Scenario Planning
A research-informed introduction connecting core concepts with contemporary questions.
Level: Foundation · Format: Self-paced digital learning
Applied Emerging Technologies
A research-informed introduction connecting core concepts with contemporary questions.
Level: Intermediate · Format: Self-paced digital learning
Applied Future Societies
A research-informed introduction connecting core concepts with contemporary questions.
Level: Intermediate · Format: Self-paced digital learning
Research and Knowledge Resources
Learners are encouraged to connect course study with academic readings, research methods, public scholarship, and verified resources across the KBA13 ecosystem.
Certificates and Learning Recognition
Certificates of completion may be offered only where a published course explicitly states its requirements. They are not academic degrees or professional licenses.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a degree program?
No. KBA13 Academy provides independent, non-degree digital education.
Can I learn at my own pace?
Selected learning pathways are designed for flexible, self-paced participation.
Are certificates available?
Certificates are available only where specifically stated for an individual course.
School of Futures Studies
Explore the full set of courses offered by this School. Structured, research-informed, and self-paced.
Full directory — School of Futures & Strategic Foresight
Every programme, resource and reference page published under School of Futures & Strategic Foresight is listed below. Use this directory to move directly to the area you need.
Course catalogue — School of Futures & Strategic Foresight
The complete list of courses currently published under School of Futures & Strategic Foresight appears below, ordered by course code. Foundation-level courses carry an F code, applied courses an A code, and advanced or research-level courses an R, C, H or S code.
- FS-A01 — Strategic Foresight Fundamentals
- FS-A02 — Anticipatory Governance
- FS-A03 — Early Warning Systems
- FS-A04 — Risk and Resilience Futures
- FS-A05 — Innovation and Futures
- FS-A06 — Foresight for Institutions
- FS-C01 — Civilizational Futures
- FS-C02 — Technology and Society Futures
- FS-C03 — Indonesia and Regional Futures
- FS-C04 — Planetary and Global Futures
- FS-C05 — Futures of Knowledge and Education
- FS-C06 — Capstone in Strategic Foresight
- FS-DG01 — The Three Ecologies and Planetary Futures
- FS-F01 — Foundations of Futures Studies
- FS-F02 — Thinking About the Future
- FS-F03 — Evidence, Trends and Signals
- FS-F04 — Uncertainty and Complexity
- FS-F05 — Ethics of Foresight
- FS-F06 — Introduction to Strategic Anticipation
- FS-H01 — Horizon Scanning Fundamentals
- FS-H02 — Signal Detection and Sensemaking
- FS-H03 — Trend Analysis
- FS-H04 — Emerging Technologies Scanning
- FS-H05 — Environmental and Social Scanning
- FS-H06 — Building a Scanning System
- FS-S01 — Scenario Planning Fundamentals
- FS-S02 — Critical Uncertainties and Drivers
- FS-S03 — Scenario Frameworks
- FS-S04 — Narrative and Quantitative Scenarios
- FS-S05 — Strategy Under Uncertainty
- FS-S06 — Scenario Communication