Article Download PDF Bea Rodriguez-Fransen Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University, USA Abstract This article explores sawali—traditional Filipino bamboo weaving—as both ...

by Sten Rodenborg Positionality and Purpose This essay emerges from deep concern and professional curiosity. Observing the escalating ecological crises, from climate change to biodiversity loss, it be...

Article Download PDF Chiara Bottarelli1, Victoria Rodriguez Schon1, Manuela Celi1 * 1Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Abstract This research seeks to propose a framework for recl...

Article Download PDF Adina-Iuliana Deacu1,2* 1Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS), Potsdam, Germany 2Tianmei World Academy, Shanghai, China Abstract In an era of polarization and cultu...

Introduction Download PDF Nur Anisah Abdullah Associate Professor, College of Education, Tamkang University Abstract This editorial introduction frames the Threads of Hope: Ancestral Knowledge and Fem...

There has been significant growth of foresight in parliaments in recent years, highlighted by the World Summits of the Parliamentary Committees of the Future in 2022 and 2023. This paper is a scanning...

Futures thinking was in the minds of historical figures in the Philippines prior to all the current initiatives, conversations, and desk work on it, but without the rigid systematic, methodical, and t...

Megatrends are cross-sectional and lasting developments creating grand challenges. This study investigates the interlinkages of 14 megatrends and their consequences using cross-impact and emerging iss...

This study examines Ethiopian secondary school students’ images of the future, focusing on their personal, national, and global perspectives. Using a survey research design, data were collected from 4...

This article explores the future of genomics in Mexico by 2030. It addresses the research questions: what are the potential futures of genomic sequencing in Mexico towards 2035? and what is the impact...

Article Download PDF Billy Francisco Gonzales1,*, Julio César Acosta-Prado2, Carlos Guillermo Hernández-Cenzano1,2, Amparito Gianina Acevedo Flores3, Juvenal Uzi Galindo Ccallocunto3, Jorge Alexis Ram...

This paper examines how Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther contributes to Afrofuturist discourse and African cultural futures by engaging with dialectical materialism and the Igbo philosophy of complementar...

As a plotline for the future story of our inherited knowledge infrastructures, the Creative Futures Pedagogical Framework is introduced as an organisational architecture that might facilitate Futures ...

Facing the drastic changes in the current international society, thinking and looking into the future picture is becoming a new starting point and foothold for design innovation. Considering that, in ...

This paper introduces More-Than-Death as a critical design futures concept that reconsiders the taboo of death beyond human-centered life exceptionalism. Building on More-Than-Human and Post-humanist ...

This essay considers the meaning of criticality in design futures education. It identifies three such meanings – criticality as an indication of importance, as a style of reasoning, and as attentivene...

Service design education needs to evolve to equip students for complex and uncertain futures. In China, however, it remains dominated by linear, solution-oriented, and short-term mindsets, limiting th...

This essay elaborates on how design research education can play a pivotal role in fostering futures-oriented competences through the provision of transdisciplinary spaces of co-speculation in learning...

This manuscript addresses the creation of a set of guidelines for the composition of moodboards as outputs that visualize the research findings from a Metadesign process. Developed through a company-d...

In this article the author describes two novel design futuring pedagogical tools that were included in the review of a foundational undergraduate Design Computing unit. Using two cycles of Participato...

The future is the first fundamental projection for architecture. Architecture has a duration in time, which often goes beyond the very life of its designer, so it is in itself a time machine, which mu...

This article reflects on a series of experiments conducted within a Danish master’s program geared towards design futuring. These experiments explored designerly ways to welcome otherness, i.e., diver...

Uncertainty about the future can lead to worry, anxiety, and an inability to function. In a world characterised by increasing uncertainty, these responses represent a serious problem. Imagining differ...

This special issue stimulates the conversation between futures studies and design education. Discussions started at the International Conference on Design Futures in 2020 and continue today. Articles ...

Essay Joann Rishel Kozyrev Vice President, Learning Design and Analytics, Western Governors University, USA Abstract There is great promise that data-enabled predictions and recommendations can improv...

Essay Luisa Ilper Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Women in menopause around the world and across cultures suffer from a lack of support during menopause and beyond. This exploratory s...

Essay Simon Önnered1, *, Valeriy Chichilanov2 1 Department of Innovation Management, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden. 2 Independent Researcher, Bangkok, Thailand. Abstract Emerging as a futu...

Diana Stafie  and Luana Galoiu  Introduction The complexity of modern societal challenges requires methodologies that can probe beyond surface-level analysis (Inayatullah, 1998). Causal Layered Analys...

Article Rachel Cranmer1*, Jenny Liu Zhang2* 1Midwest Futures, United States; Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. 2Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of...

Article James Balzer Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Abstract Sydney, Australia is experiencing more frequent and intense extrem...

Article Mejía Zapata, Giselly Andrea Liana Collective, New York, USA Abstract The coca plant’s Western narrative has long reduced her multifaceted identity to a single term, “cocaine.” However, a tran...

Article Felipe Bosch1, Daouia Chalali2* 1Executive Director, Intergenerational Centre for Global Action, Brussels, Belgium 2Founding Member, Intergenerational Centre for Global Action, Lyon, France Ab...

Article Aina García Mestre Faculty of Communications and International Relations, Blanquerna Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain Abstract The advent of digital technologies has led to a major tra...

The Ruins of the Future are all around us. We usually experience these as oppressive and threatening. This paper argues that we can reframe this experience and that it is the role of the Futurist to a...

The purpose of this reflexive essay is to add to the discussion around AI-enabled foresight with a systematic review of one specific phenomenon, namely Generative AI hallucinations. These are seemingl...

Polyvagal Theory, developed by clinical psychiatrist Stephen Porges in the mid-1990s, offers a scientific theory for understanding the role of the autonomous nervous system in how we meet and respond ...

Let’s sit absolutely still for a few minutes.In Paris at the World Futures Studies Federation’s 2023 conference, we asked attendees during our keynote on (Dis)abling futures, to sit absolutely still f...

We live in a liminal world, Sardar (2010) has characterized it as ‘postnormal times’, a phase in which time is accelerated, complex and proceeding at different paces. Such a world is hard to navigate,...

This essay presents « Words and Dreams », a field-based foresight intervention grounded in liminality theory to foster agency among vocational hospitality students in France. Drawing on Van Gennep’s t...

By Abril Chimal & Lena Tünkers In 2024, the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent was held to address pressing global humanitarian challenges. As part of this important event, we were honored to be among the four winners of the IFRC Solferino Academy Speculative Competition. Our participation in this competition gave

This article introduces the concept of trauma-transformative foresight, an approach that integrates trauma healing with futures thinking to enhance the futures consciousness of Kenyan youth. Drawing o...

by Sohail Inayatullah, Eva Oloumi and Shadi Rouhshahbaz   As bombs rained down on Iran from Israel and the USA (and Iranian missiles onto Israel and American bases in Qatar) in late June, with an over...

The Futures Telescope is an innovative framework for futures thinking that merges structured foresight with subjective perspectives. Building on complexity theory, it challenges traditional models tha...

The study deals with the new wave in the life cycle of foresight activities. It is associated with the new info-communicational technologies (ICT) and the artificial intelligence (AI) applied in wider...

Article Tamás Gáspár1, *, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment2, Peter Hayward3 1Faculty of International Management and Business, Budapest Business University, Budapest, Hungary 2ProGective, France 3Croydon South...

This paper discusses the outcome of a methodologically innovative foresight exercise. A Futures Clinique was conducted to address paradoxes of peace. For the purpose, a novel method of 'paradox probin...

This special issue of the Journal of Futures Studies is focused more on thinking about futures than the methods we used to design and run futures processes. When I was asked – with Steven Litchy – to ...

“The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future” is a fast-paced journey through 20 short sections of 2-5 pages. It builds from a historical vantage point by exploring how language defines feminism and v...

This article examines the WILD (Wild-Interconnected-Liminal-Deep Futures) woman as a transformative framework for feminist futures. Drawing from feminist theory, futures studies and ecological thought...

This article examines the potentials and challenges of applying feminist-informed foresight to the future of Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP). It first situates a feminist vision for foreign policy withi...