Bucharest conversations: What would futurists say to this little girl? Jim Dator a, *, Jordi Serra del Pino b,1 , Sam Cole c , Fabienne Goux-Baudiment d , Victoria Razak b , Mihaela Ghisa e a Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA b Provenc ¸a, 281, 3r, 5a 08037 Barcelona, Spain c University at Buffalo, 116 Hayes Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214-3087, USA d proGective, 16 rue Mouton-Duvernet, 75014 Paris, France e University of Bucharest, 36-46, M. Koga˘lniceanu Bd, Sector 5, 70709 Bucharest, Romania Futures 43 (2011) 1009–1019 A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Available online 17 June 2011 A B S T R A C T At a round table discussion that took place in Bucharest during a mutual learning workshop, on 9th–11th of June 2010, around 15 futurists were asked to look at this picture of a little African girl. It appears on the cover of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010, which has the specific title: ‘Reaching the Marginalized’. The futurists were asked: how would you justify the work you do to the girl in the photograph. Here are some of the answers. ß 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: dator@hawaii.edu (J. Dator), jordi.serra@periscopi-bcn.com (J.S.d. Pino), samcole@buffalo.edu (S. Cole), progective@gmail.com (F. Goux-Baudiment), vrazak8@gmail.com (V. Razak), mihaelaghisa@yahoo.se (M. Ghisa). 1 Tel.: +34 932 157 007. Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Futures jou r nal h o mep ag e: w ww .elsevier .co m /loc ate/fu tu r es 0016-3287/$ – see front matter ß 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2011.06.010