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- Images of the Future in a Participatory Online Course – Empowering
Student-Driven Projects for Higher Education Sustainability Transformation
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Authors: Ludwig Weh, Lisa Kinne
Pages: 75 - 92
Abstract: World Futures Review, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 75-92, March 2023.
To empower student-driven projects for sustainability transformation in higher education structures, the project ‘Students create sustainable universities in Northrhine-Westphalia’ by German NGO netzwerk n e. V. has developed an innovative digital program (https://kurs.netzwerk-n.org/) using transdisciplinary and transformative learning elements in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Core objective of the 8-week massive open online course is to encourage and connect student promoters for sustainable university transformation. Its transdisciplinary learning methods encourage creation and reflexive discourse about alternative images of the future of sustainable institutions, processes and education, as well as human-nature-interaction and more-than-human futures. The integrated digital future workshop based on the participatory workshop method explores a novel approach to assess images of the future individually and collectively in digital space. This paper presents the conceptual background and methodological premises used for design and implementation of the online course as innovative method for student project development. Participants’ structured critique, utopia envisioning and specific project development provide valuable insights into the use of images of the future for higher education sustainability discourse and transformative action in student-driven sustainability projects.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-07-18T04:21:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231171360
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2023)
- From Insight to Foresight: The Transformative Potential of the Futures
Triangle-
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Authors: Shermon Cruz, Nicole Anne Moura, Joanna Marie Lim, Michael Niel Angelo Bulatao, Ghelvin Auriele Aguirre, Joel Dela Paz
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The simplicity of the futures triangle as a foresight mapping methodology belies its brilliance to draw out complex phenomena and ingenious ways of seeing the future. In the hands of those who eagerly and sincerely wish to discover profound and authentic futures, the method provides an elegant way to surface the obscure and emergent conditions of change from the past, present, and the future. Apart from being a scanning technique for foresight practitioners to activate the future in the present, it bestows upon its users an introspective and experiential journey of flow against the riptides of inertia and the stagnancy of default. The futures triangle provides an anchor for understanding how the three facets of the future influence the way we imagine possibilities and infer meaning from the interplay of hindsight, insight, and foresight. As a tool for building foresight capacity, it increases the capability to map, make sense, and connect the drivers of change among three time horizons. Through analyzing and questioning the dynamics and tensions of change, issues are collectively framed and contextualized from the community’s perspective. The shared experience from participants of workshops and facilitated conversations accentuates the usefulness of foresight in their field of work through a better understanding of futures thinking, gaining through effort a panoramic future view of consequential issues, and realizing that enacting the future is a necessity. This reflective piece on the Futures Triangle shares the authors’ insights, cases, and views on the value and the futures of the method. It offers suggestions on how to thoughtfully facilitate a purposeful and enriching Futures Triangle workshop.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-11-21T04:21:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231215126
- Temporalizing Internal Consistency: Using the Futures Triangle as an
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Authors: Adam Cowart
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The purpose of this paper is to propose the application of the futures triangle as an organizing device for emplotting future-oriented narrative ecosystems and that the plausibility of a particular future can be explicitly reframed through a storytelling lens as the internal consistency of the story about the future. The paper draws on research on futures and storytelling, as well as the application of the futures triangle in academic and organizational settings beyond the traditional mapping phase of the six pillars. The paper then provides examples of applications of the futures triangle in three case study vignettes, as a method for surveying assumptions of change in narrative systems, audience reception in experiential futures stories or “sparks” and transition design stakeholder persona creation. The paper concludes by arguing that re-employing the futures triangle as an organizing device for contested story systems can support richer and more nuanced narratives about the future to emerge that are both plausible and challenge audiences and stakeholders by maintaining internal consistency.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-11-16T10:30:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231215128
- Contextualising Conflict: The Futures Triangle
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Authors: Ivana Milojević
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This article offers an overview and theoretical analysis of the practical applications of the Futures Triangle framework, drawing insights from multiple case studies. It commences with the case study of “The Equal Crossing Initiative,” which resulted in the installation of a female pedestrian light symbol at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets in Melbourne on March 9, 2017. The analysis of public opinions on this initiative reveals a diversity of views, with many expressing strong opinions. Major Australian newspapers, non-scientific surveys, and social media platforms reflected a spectrum of reactions, ranging from enthusiastic endorsement (“how cool is this'”) to critical perspectives that deemed it overly politically correct, questioned the allocation of funds, the necessity of gendered symbols, and even the attire of the female figure. Building upon this case study of community conflict, the article then explores the application of the Futures Triangle framework to better comprehend resistance to progressive social initiatives and to address the challenges inherent in social change efforts. It posits that the Futures Triangle offers a valuable tool for conflict resolution, fostering a deeper understanding of backlash dynamics, and enhancing the likelihood of successful implementation of innovative initiatives. Finally, it emphasizes the significant connections between change agents and change progression scenarios method, as elucidated in previously published texts.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-10-28T04:17:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203160
- The Futures Triangle in the Workplace - Using Strategic Foresight to
Anticipate, Plan for and Respond to New Challenges in Business-
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Authors: Victoria Mulligan
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The future of work is constantly evolving and changing, making it increasingly challenging for businesses to anticipate and respond to these changes. Strategic foresight, the process of systematically exploring the future to identify and understand potential opportunities and threats, has become an essential tool for organisations that want to remain competitive and adapt to the changing nature of work. This paper focuses on the futures triangle tool, a widely used strategic foresight tool, and provides examples of how it can be used by organisations to prepare for the future of work.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-10-19T08:53:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203171
- The Futures Triangle: Origins and Iterations
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Authors: Sohail Inayatullah
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This article presents a genealogy of the Futures Triangle. The method's evolution is explained. Problems, iteration and benefits are presented. The Futures Triangle is a simple method to map three competing factors: the pull of the future, the push of the present, and the weight of history. It can be used as a stand-alone futures method or in conjunction with other methods such as Emerging Issues Analysis, Causal Layered Analysis, or Scenarios.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-10-16T08:17:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203162
- Using the Futures Triangle to Infer Images of the Future of Food and
Agriculture in the Southern Cone: The Case of Argentina-
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Authors: Diego Gauna, Susana Márquez, Soledad Puechagut
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The different perceptions of food and agriculture stakeholders about the future is a key input to design future-oriented public policies and to build a shared vision of the future. By applying the futures triangle to the results of a qualitative study concerning the future of food and agriculture innovation system in Argentine, five archetypes of images of the future were inferred. The archetypes reflect a distinct combination between the weight of history, the pushes of the present and the pulls of the future, corresponding to the perception of the future of nine distinct stakeholders of the food and agriculture system in Argentine. The archetypes are named: stuck in the present, the future is not ours, the future never comes, the future is being built and the future is ours. The analysis show that the stakeholders can envision the future of the world’s agriculture with a certain degree of creativity. However, they find it difficult to imagine the future of the Argentine agricultural industry in new ways: they repeat the old ideas or notions they have about it. All those visions lead to a demand for changes that are more connected to the present than to the future. This foresight study offers a first approach to explore the different views regarding the future of food and agriculture and it reveals how such views influence the type and characteristics of the new stakeholders demands to the public agriculture sector in Argentina to the year 2030.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-10-05T09:27:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203166
- The Co-Creative Futures Triangle: A Workshop to Build Shared Intent for
Transformation-
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Authors: Lavonne Leong, Kelly Kornet Weber
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Although the Futures Triangle, developed by Sohail Inayatullah in the 1990s, has become a staple mental model for the futures/foresight field, it has not been well explored in the academic literature in the context of other futures tools. Here, the authors use a variation of the Futures Triangle as a springboard for foresight work in groups of any size, with a particular focus on facilitating the mindset shift that precedes organizational transformation. The authors present directions and an 80-stakeholder use case of the Co-Creative Futures Triangle, an effective tool to help diverse members of a system to co-ideate unique, positive futures created from a pool of shared values and current realities.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-09-29T03:38:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203164
- Futures Triangle: A Method Examined
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Authors: Ralph Mercer
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This contribution to the Futures Triangle special edition aims to open dialogue with the reader about what lies ahead for the Futures Triangle method and Futures Studies in general. The subsequent paragraphs explore how viewing the Futures Triangle through the lenses of new philosophies and approaches could impact the traditional concepts of Futures Studies.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-09-29T03:36:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203188
- The Use and Usefulness of The Futures Triangle
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Authors: Nur Anisah Abdullah
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This paper presents the Futures Triangle as a framework to help guide thinking about the future. It works as a thinking tool or cognitive map, helping us interpret the past, orientate the present in charting our move to the future. This article uses four case studies to demonstrate the use and usefulness of the Futures Triangle for advancing futures studies in that it scaffolds the thinking about possible, probable and plausible futures, eliciting images of the future, interpreting the past and orientating the present, integrating knowledge and values for charting plausible futures, and increasing democratic participation in imaging desired futures. These case studies illustrates the effectiveness and utility of the Futures Triangle in enhancing futures studies and its potential for broadening engagement and understanding in the field.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-09-19T11:36:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231203167
- Investigating the Futures Triangle with ChatGPT
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Authors: Sohail Inayatullah
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
A chat with ChatGPT about the Futures Triangle led by Sohail Inayatullah, who created the method.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-07-29T07:36:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170833
- A Movement Matured: Results of a Co-citation Analysis, and Some
Reflections on the Relations Between Social Structure and Ideas in Futures
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Authors: Christian Dayé
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Scholars and practitioners have long criticized the inherent dominance of Western ideas in futures studies and claimed the need for a de-centering or decolonizing of the field. As a process of transforming science, de-centering occurs on at least two levels: at the level of thought and at the level of social structure. Sociologists of science, Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, and others have conducted research for many years on the interlinkages between social structures and knowledge structures and have developed several concepts to do so. In this article, I discuss some of these concepts and combine these theoretical conceptualizations with a co-citation analysis of recent publications in the futures studies. Based on a sample of futures studies publications that have appeared in the last ten years (n = 500) retrieved from the Web of ScienceTM database, a strongly inter-related network with four clusters can be identified. The works in each these four clusters are related in terms of their subject matter. They concern (1) the politico-intellectual program of futures studies, (2) their epistemological foundations, (3) questions of methodology, and (4) scenarios as the core technique of futures thinking. Both the works and their authors come from a broad variety of cultural backgrounds; they also display a relatively high number of co-citations with works in clusters other than their own. Taken together, these findings indicate that the information space sampled in this study to represent futures studies has already become de-centered to a large degree, both at the level of social structure and at the level of thought.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-05-04T11:30:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170822
- Whose Preferred Future Is This' On Possibility, Potential, and Plurality
in Visions of the Future-
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Authors: Viraj Joshi
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
What do the images of our futures tell us about the world we live in' Whose preferred future do we often imagine' That of the people, the planet, or solely made for profits of a few masters' If it is for the benefit of the people, who are they, how much do they benefit, and how will their lives be better' What unforeseen implications might this have for the planet' Speculation is famously a provocative medium that allows us to start crucial conversations without explicitly referring to sensitive anecdotes. In an increasingly polarised and fragmented world, these images hope to spark empathy, and promote a holistic, considerate discourse.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-04-19T06:55:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170820
- Rethinking ‘Hope’ and ‘Resilience’ in the Anthropocene: An
Interview with David Chandler-
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Authors: David Chandler, Shahira Hathout
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This is an interview with David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at Westminster University, UK, a leading scholar in the field of international politics and policy discourses of resilience in the Anthropocene. This interview explores the challenges presented by the Anthropocene and the ways that discourses of ‘hope’ and ‘resilience’ might effectively reflect and negotiate them.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-04-13T01:56:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170828
- Scry, the Beloved Country: Sinofuturist Forecasting and Accelerationist
Aesthetics-
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Authors: Virginia L. Conn
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Sinofuturism has emerged within the last 5 years as a compelling label for a wide variety of artistic and literary practices that posit China as “the future” and the future as “Chinese.” Yet this term remains broadly undertheorized outside of accelerationist spheres, where it is often taken as a self-evident truism. In this piece, I explore how—despite its many and varied instantiations—sinofuturist approaches broadly share a preoccupation with temporal surveillance that reinterprets the past as a precondition of an inevitable future, thereby enrolling viewers/readers in the creation of such a future. This practice has a longer history than the term itself presupposes, although the contemporary reimagining of sinofuturist characteristics as part of a globalized, self-defining network is almost entirely a result of engagement with internet technologies. Sinofuturism, despite its short history, carries deterministic paths (and assumptions) in its representations that constrain the potential for plural futures.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-03-27T02:39:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231162951
- Why Decenter Images of the Future Matter: Absences, Alternatives, and
Accomplishments Challenging Future Visions-
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Authors: Martín Pérez Comisso, Dayna Jeffrey
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-03-25T07:53:44Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231164460
- A Trip Through Tomorrowland: The World Expo as Futures Lab
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Authors: Toby Shulruff, Levi Wyman
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
To shape just and equitable futures in which we all flourish, we need visions crafted by a broader range of voices that acknowledge everyone’s stake and account for the creativity, ingenuity, and place-based knowledge of everyday life around the planet. In addition, experiential and inclusive environments for imagining futures on a large scale are needed. We propose a concept of Futures Labs as plural, interactive, relational, cross-temporal, and immersive spaces for crafting, experiencing, and deliberating the futures we need. We analyze World Expos as one potential site in which to implement this concept based on our own experiences at the Expo2020 in Dubai. We discuss how aspects of Expos already meet the criteria of a Futures Lab and make proposals for ways to iterate this “lab” and enhance the role of World Expos in shaping global futures ahead of the upcoming 2025 Expo in Osaka, Japan.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-01-13T02:28:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231151718
- School as Soil: Pedagogies of Care for Alternative Future Imaginaries
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Authors: Paula Albuquerque, Magda Pischetola
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
In the majority of Brazilian public schools, poverty and social injustice prevail. Most students come from disadvantaged realities, and their future seems to be already defined by a lack of social mobility, exclusion from civil rights, and violence—a situation that has worsened with the global pandemic. Rooted in ethnographic research in public schools in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, this paper explores the role of pedagogies of care in creating alternative, possible, and preferable narratives about the future of these students. By using the metaphor of “school as soil”, the study identifies care in four dimensions: time, heterogeneity, mattering, and fertility. It draws on 12 semi-structured interviews with teachers from eight different public schools that were part of a larger doctoral project. By researching school as soil, we examine how pedagogies of care encourage teachers’ speculation about preferable imaginaries for the future of their students. Results show that despite precarious resources and scarce institutional support, pedagogies of care appear in multiple reported situations, aiming to inspire learning processes, give voice and agency to the socially marginalized, and allow for ways of thinking that offer alternatives to the seemingly ubiquitous oppressive relations.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-01-13T02:17:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231151717
- Designing ‘Futures Studies Journeys’. Addressing Users of Futures
Studies Using a Contingency Approach-
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Authors: Patrick van der Duin, Dhoya Snijders
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The Dutch government has a large and diverse range of advisory councils and planning agencies that produce studies of the future as an input to the development of strategic government policy. The work of these organisations is important and relevant, as well as very diverse in terms of their approach to the future, the methodologies they use, and the topics on which they focus. In particular, they serve different users, who all use these studies for their own purposes. As a result, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to designing a futures study. To deal with this variety, we use a contingency approach with which we set up a framework presenting different ‘futures studies journeys’ that relate different user goals to different approaches to the future, to different phases in policy-processes in which the futures study is used, and to different methods to be employed.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-12-01T02:06:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221140607
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