As Director of Sustainable Futures and Innovation at UL, I am responsible for collectively exploring and actively shaping sustainable and regenerative futures for Higher Education. There are two central elements to our work: 1) Strategic Foresight: actively exploring and articulating preferable futures; and 2) Innovation: backcasting from the preferred futures, while designing and developing a portfolio of innovation plays or experiments. From my experience there are a number of ingredients that are central to successful strategic foresight these include; enabling deep and meaningful participation in future making, re-igniting individual and collective imagination and taking a systems view of organisations. As a team we work to articulate future narratives and design speculative artefacts that help bring the future into view today. Futures is a relatively new area for HE and so I count myself privileged to be on this journey at the University of Limerick.