Futures

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 1.5 Situating the researcher

This chapter examines various concepts and definitions of the future, images of the future, and knowledge of the future from the context of futures studies for their relevance to the consideration of societal expectations of the future.

Next Chapter: 2.1.1 Present futures from Grunwald

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Article - Futures from Ruins
Article: Bombay Beach: Rethinking Ruins In The Climate Change Era by Johanna Hoffman
Books on Futures
If people ask me for book recommendations on the topic of foresight and futures studies, I usually recommend two books...
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
A comprehensive guide to understanding and applying Sohail Inayatullah’s transformative futures methodology
Conclusion
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.2.4 AI, future imaginaries, and futures studies...
Critical Futures Studies
The field of Futures Studies describes “the scientific concern with possible, desirable and probable future developments”1. While the majority of...
Dates and Events
Conferences Future Days Anticipation Conference 2024 - Lancaster University Dubai Future Foundation Katapult Future Fest 2024 The Discovery of the...
Foresight with Claude Code
A curated collection of projects and resources that combine Futures Studies methods with Claude Code.
Paper – From Critique to Cultural Recovery
A monograph by José M. Ramos titled From Critique to Cultural Recovery – Critical futures studies and Causal Layered Analysis...
Futures Triangle
A diagnostic tool for mapping competing forces that shape futures
Goals
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 1. Introduction
Imaginaries from Lockton and Candy
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 2.3.3 Sociotechnical Imaginaries from Jasanoff
Interesting Questions in Futures Studies & Foresight
The following is an ongoing list of questions that I bump into in my work in futures studies and foresight....
Introduction
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Legal Foresight
This is a Primer primer on Legal Foresight.
Master's Thesis – Future Imaginaries
I did my master’s in futures research from 2017 to 2020 at the FU Berlin. In my master’s thesis, submitted...
Metamodernism and Futures Studies
A comprehensive synthesis of metamodernist philosophy’s intersection with futures and foresight practice
Methods
A comprehensive overview of methods, frameworks, and tools in foresight and futures studies
OODA Loop
A decision-making framework for operating in chaos. Why “faster” isn’t the point.
Observations from the examination of futures and imaginaries
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 2.3.5 Future Imaginaries from Goode and Godhe...
The Overton Window
This is a Primer primer on the Overton Window.
Polak Game
A diagnostic futures tool for surfacing assumptions about agency and optimism
Present futures from Grunwald
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 2.1 Futures
Questions for the Start of a Foresight Project
I first developed these questions for an article about The Beginning and the End of Foresight.
Real Utopias
Real Utopias represent sociologist Erik Olin Wright’s influential framework for pursuing emancipatory social transformation through pragmatic, institutionally grounded alternatives to...
Roles of Future Imaginaries
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 3.2.2 Components of future imaginaries
STEEPLE
A seven-factor framework for macro-environmental analysis in strategic foresight
Sohail Inayatullah
UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies and Developer of Causal Layered Analysis
The L in STEEPLE
Why the Legal dimension deserves separate analysis from the Political in strategic foresight
The Role of Futures in Capitalism
Notes on my input for the republica 23 Futures Exchange panel.
Training Practice for Futurists
I’ve listened to a politician recently detailing his morning media diet of newsletters, clippings, etc. It helps him feel prepared...
Utopia as Method
Utopia as Method represents Ruth Levitas’s groundbreaking reconceptualization of Utopia utopian thinking from static blueprint to dynamic methodology. Rather than...
Utopia
_This is a Primer primer on utopia. Related notes: Utopia as Method, Real Utopias_
What good is scientific rigor when nobody gives a shit
This note is based on a Twitter thread I wrote while attending a futures studies conference in Finnland.
What good is scientific rigor when nobody gives a shit?
This note is based on a Twitter thread I wrote while attending a futures studies conference in Finnland.

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