Isabelle Vuong, reimagining our collective futures
Thinking and enabling futures
Hello!
I'm Isabelle Vuong, futures specialist.
I design and facilitate foresight workshops and processes that use forecasting, foresight research, scientific sources and future imaginaries to generate new horizons and ways of acting today. Because today is exactly where we need to start taking action if we want to tackle the challenges of our time.
I am committed to a plural approach to futures, relying on a new orientation in foresight and futures literacy that engage with plausible and speculative futures in order to perceive the full potential of the present.
I invite you to practice plural futures with me.
+49 173 64 050 64
+41 79 138 04 35
Professional Futures Specialist
Master in Futures Studies (Zukunftsforschung), Freie Universität Berlin
swissfuture – Swiss Society for Futures Studies – board member
representing the French part of Switzerland
Member of Association of Professional Futurists (APF)
Based between Switzerland (Lausanne/Zurich) and Berlin.
Biography
After completing a Master's degree in humanities at University of Lausanne, I worked in French-speaking Switzerland as a cultural manager and a freelance cultural journalist.
From 2013 to 2016 I was the manager of the national competence centre for dance Reso - Swiss Dance Network which develops national projects (Swiss Dance Days, Tanzfest / Fête de la Danse, etc.). I also conducted the first survey of public dance promotion in Switzerland: "Panorama 2017", commissioned by the National Cultural Dialogue. I initiated Open Futures in Zurich in 2021, an artistic and research program bridging arts, future and sustainability at Shedhalle, Gessnerallee, Tanzhaus, and the ETH (D-ARCH/Newrope Lab).
In 2016 I moved to Berlin to study futures studies (Master Zukunftsforschung Freie Universität Berlin).
Since completing my Master, I have been working as a futures specialist in the fields of sustainability, international relations, finance, public governance, education and culture.
In the field of sustainability, I worked at the Competence Centre in Sustainability of the University of Lausanne to supported the Greater Geneva Region in the development of its action plan for the ecological transition. I also taught the Competence Center's team foresight methods.
I opened the year of work of the Assembly of Transition of the University of Lausanne and developed sustainable futures for and with the 60 members.
I have also taught sessions and design various workshops on sustainability in academia and the cultural sector (EPFL Climate and Sustainability Action Week, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, art mediators yearly network meeting in Kanton Aargau, Migros m2act).
In international relations, I had the chance to collaborate with the Division of Country Programmes of the International Trade Centre, the joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation where I led a visioning and strategy workshop for its 70 people team and produce a report with recommendations. With swissfuture, I have been initiating different sessions and engagements around the future of International Geneva. At the Geneva Graduate Institute, I supervised an Applied Research Project on the future of International Geneva with Master students in International and Development Studies.
In the domain of cash management and payments, I have designed scenarios processes for central and commercial banks from 25 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia (EMEA Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS), Raiffeisen Bank International).