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...
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
A comprehensive guide to understanding and applying Sohail Inayatullah’s transformative futures methodology
Critical Futures Studies
The field of Futures Studies describes “the scientific concern with possible, desirable and probable future developments”1. While the majority of...
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
Imagination Economy
This is a Primer
primer on the Imagination Economy.
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.
Polak Game
A diagnostic futures tool for surfacing assumptions about agency and optimism
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 Forward Deployed Futurist
Forward Deployed Engineers are having a moment. The role, pioneered by Palantir, has seen job postings increase by 800-1,000% in...
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.