We are all engaging with the future, and for most of us this means navigating uncertainty. The
ELIA Future Readiness Working Group supports everyone working and studying across the ELIA community in becoming more "future ready" by exploring emerging trends, challenges and opportunities together.
We believe that becoming future ready is not about predicting what will happen. Rather, it is about developing the habits, methods and practices that enable us to stay curious, adaptive and critically engaged with change. Across the ELIA community, people are already finding different ways to reflect on, imagine and work with the many transformations shaping our sector, from artificial intelligence and climate change to changing student needs, future career paths, funding and institutional resilience, artistic research, and the evolving role of the arts in society, among others. We would like to learn from these diverse approaches.
This survey invites you to share the methods, habits and approaches you use to engage with the future. We are not looking for expert answers or established foresight methodologies, but for
the practices, routines and ideas that help our community navigate uncertainty together.
Responses will be analysed in clustered and anonymised form. The findings will inform the Backstage Conversation Rooms and contribute to the
ELIA Biennial Conference 2026 in Zwolle.
Thank you for helping shape our community's future readiness.
