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The ForesightNZ: Untangling New Zealand’s long-term future workshop, hosted in collaboration with New Zealand Treasury, focused on ways to deal with the increasing complexity and uncertainty in the world around us. Participants engaged with a range of speakers to understand what the concepts of prosperity, sustainability and inclusion could mean for New Zealand. Using foresight thinking, participants developed a robust card game tool as an output of the workshop. Participants created cards based on the events and trends that they believe could significantly shape New Zealand’s long-term future, and with these designed a number of games to develop a deeper understanding of the possible futures that might occur if a small number of those cards played out in real life. The ForesightNZ workshop not only enabled young New Zealanders to gain an insight into the machinery of government, but also enabled Treasury officials to hear a youth perspective.

What do we want our lives, and the lives of others in New Zealand, to look like in 40 years time?
What are the things we value most and why?
What would be required to achieve these things?
What trade-offs would we be willing to make?