Futuring

This note is about the methods of futuring.

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Future

Hajer, Maarten A., and Peter Pelzer. ‘2050—an Energetic Odyssey: Understanding “Techniques of Futuring” in the Transition Towards Renewable Energy’. Energy Research & Social Science 44 (2018): 222–31. https://doi.org/10/gd86pp.

Techniques

Future Literacy Laboratory
Scenario planning
Backcasting
Delphi method
Horizon scanning
Trend analysis
Visioning
Simulation and gaming

Future literacy is about the ability to generate custom images of the future. All future is imagination and all imagination is depends on images. Typically, humans use unexamined clichés to think about the future. Future-literate humans gain the ability to generate custom images of the future. This is a skill that can be learned and practiced.

Examples

Creative Practices

https://creatures-eu.org/

Creatures: Creative Practices for Transformational Futures EU Horizon 2020 project

References

Oomen, Jeroen, Jesse Hoffman, and Maarten A. Hajer. “Techniques of Futuring: On How Imagined Futures Become Socially Performative.” European Journal of Social Theory 25, no. 2 (2022): 252–70. https://doi.org/10/gjrn6c.

Miller, Riel, ed. Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

Kokshagina, Olga, Lauren Rickards, Wendy Steele, and Oli Moraes. “Futures Literacy for Research Impact in Universities.” Futures 132 (2021): 102803. https://doi.org/10/gtgqf4.

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