
Imagine the Future Scenarios Competition
Scenarios provide plausible alternative views of the future. Building and using scenarios can help us explore what the future might look like and the likely challenges of living in it. Join the Imagine the Future Scenarios Competition and shape the way we live, work and play!
Since 2016, Shell have been inviting university students to imagine the future of more and cleaner energy in Asian cities and how it will change the way we live, work and play.
Shell Imagine the Future Scenarios Competition 2020/2021 | How do you imagine the future? (SG)
Title: The Imagine The Future Journey
Duration: 49 seconds
Description:
Montage video on the ITF students, and their vision of a cleaner and more sustainable world in 2050.
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How Do You Imagine The Future
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Female student interview
[Dialogue: Female]
2050 will be a year where people will be more environmentally-friendly.
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Female student talking to computer.
[Dialogue: Male]
Renewable energy becomes cheaper and there’s less reliance on fossil fuels.
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Male student interview.
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Male student listening to computer with his chin resting on his hand.
[Dialogue: Male]
I imagine a world that is more volatile and more resilient.
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Male student interview.
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Male student interview.
[Dialogue: Male]
People have access to sustainable food.
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Male student interview.
[Dialogue: Male]
And all civilizations will be underground.
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Male student gesturing to computer.
[Dialogue: Female]
There may be more transnational collaboration.
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Female student interview.
[Dialogue: Female]
And language and location are no longer obstacles working together.
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Female student interview.
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A male instructor talking and gesturing to computer.
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Two male students listening to computer.
[Dialogue: Male]
It will be a technologically connected one where governments and societies come forward to solve inescapable problems.
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Male student interview.
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Male student using computer.
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Group of students discussing.
[Dialogue: Female]
I imagine a future that’s vibrant, resilient and sustainable. And is filled with innovations and possibilities.
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Female student interview
[Dialogue: 2 Male 2 Female]
How do you imagine the future?
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Group of students interview.
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Imagine The Future Scenarios Competition
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Shell Imagine the Future Scenarios Competition 2019/2020
Title: Imagine The Future Facebook Instagram Global video
Duration: 34 seconds
Description:
Montage video on the ITF students, and their ideas on the energy future of how people live, work and play in 2050.
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Imagine The Future Journey 2019/2020
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Female student presenting
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How will more and cleaner energy look like? How will people live, work and play?
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Male student presenting.
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Female mentor teaching.
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Students doing workshop activity
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Female student enquiring
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Male mentor teaching
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Female student listening
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The competition is about scenario building and to build plausible scenarios for the future in 2050.
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Male mentor teaching
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Students doing workshop activity
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Students presenting at workshop
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How exactly will the problems of tomorrow be resolved?
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Group of people in front of projector screen on a Zoom call
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Computer screen of a Zoom call
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Male mentor explaining
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We have the power to shape the world with this technology.
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Female asking questions
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Male student explaining exhibit
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The little things have a lot of impact.
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Male student talking on Zoom call
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Male mentor listening on Zoom call
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Male student talking on Zoom call
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Male mentor listening on Zoom call
[Dialogue: Male]
This is just how you are going to change the world and how could you be a part of it.
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Egypt team posing for photo
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Singapore team posing for photo
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Imagine The Future Scenarios Competition
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Imagine the Future scenarios

How would we live, work and play in 2050?

Building and using scenarios can help us explore what the future might look like and the likely challenges of living in it.

The panel of judges discussing the scenarios presented by the Singapore teams.

Scenarios provide plausible alternative views of the future.

Discover what possibilities lie in the future of energy through the Imagine the Future Scenarios Competition.

Together, we can Imagine the Future.

A team member sharing her reflections on the competition journey.

Teams attending a storytelling workshop where methods or techniques were shared to help present their scenarios more creatively at the National Finals.

A team putting their creative thinking skills into action.

A team acting out an alternative scenario during the storytelling workshop.