Futures Studies

Rough definition: the academic field dealing with images of the future (s. The Image of the Future)

The Difference between Present Futures and Future Presents is the premise for a scientific approach to futures.

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Books on Futures
If people ask me for book recommendations on the topic of foresight and futures studies, I usually recommend two books...
Critical Futures Studies
The field of [[Futures Studies]] describes “the scientific concern with possible, desirable and probable future developments”1. While the majority of...
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...
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]].
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...
Roles of Future Imaginaries
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 3.2.2 [[Components of future imaginaries]]
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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