"Imagine - Institute of Futures Studies" is a research institute at Iqra University. It is the first institute of future studies in a Pakistani university. "Imagine" is an integral part of the vision of the Vice-Chancellor of Iqra University, Professor Dr. Wasim Qazi, to transform Iqra University into a university of the 4th industrial age. Iqra University academics from diverse disciplines like humanities, social and health sciences, business and media studies, information technology, and engineering are collaborating with "Imagine" to construct preferred futures and its roadmaps for Pakistan and the regional developing countries. Our goal is to initiate collaboration on micro, meso, and macro levels to broaden our spectrum for moulding the present to create a sustainable, equitable, and humane future. Imagine engages think tanks, institutes, universities, business enterprises, national, regional, global, and international communities to construct roadmaps to create our preferred future. At Imagine, we want to explore the areas of mutually beneficial collaboration with you and your organization. Imagine welcomes all the residents and all the businesses of the world. Let us join hands to create our desired future.
Offer training, consultancy, and research collaboration to the public sector, private sector, non-profit organizations, business enterprises, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and civil society for exchange of information and academic publications.
Construct and offer introductory and advanced courses, certificates, diplomas, and lifelong learning programs. Lifelong learning programs improvise individual skills and understanding of the world and provide better opportunities for improving quality of life.
Organize seminars, webinars, workshops, conferences to introduce stakeholders to the conceptual frameworks, paradigms, methods, techniques, tools, tactics, strategies, and skillsets for designing models of futures and roadmaps to reach the preferred future.
Connect with universities, research organizations, NGOs, cultural groups, destitute class, socio-political institutions, and business enterprises to construct, revise, and share the roadmaps to create an equitable, eco-friendly and humane world.
Celebrate uniqueness, diversity, equity, and interconnectedness through empathy.
Collectively construct sustainable futures stories and create viable futures models utilizing creative collaboration, intelligence, imagination, and empathy to turn these stories into reality.
Critically assess roadmaps to our preferred future, and continuously revise them, incorporating emerging technological and social trends.
Disseminate our stories and roadmaps through multiple channels, including research publication, literature, art, drama, social and traditional media, and cultural events.
Introduce and contribute to the conceptual frameworks, paradigms, methods, techniques, tools, tactics, strategies, and skillsets developed by future studies researchers and research institutions.
Critically and creatively assess the impact of technological, social, and ecological systems on the preferred future and its roadmaps.
Engage the public sector, private sector, non-profit organizations, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and civil society to create an equitable, eco-friendly, and humane world
Produce audiovisual material in local and regional languages to increase access, and engage local and regional communities in creating a desirable future.
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