Emerging pathways for critical futures research: Changing contexts and impacts of social theory

Ahlqvist, Toni; Rhisiart, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.07.012

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“…[13] Slaughter outlines four traditions in Future Studies (one empirical, analytical and critical, a second one which is critical, a third one which is activist, and a fourth one which is multicultural. [14] Instead, Ahlqvist and Rhisiart Bsuggest a more schematic division between utilitarian and emancipatory paradigms.^ [15] exercises used to think of alternative futures can be systematized in different ways by means of different techniques. 5 In general, Future Studies resort to intellectual devices in order to collect, process and analyze pieces of information to profit from the most suitable technique and methodology diagram available.…”

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Narrative foresight in technical organizations: epistemological and methodological contributions from a practice of scenario method in Argentina

Patrouilleau

2017

Eur J Futures Res

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The following paper explores the experience of narrative Foresight applied to the use of the scenario method in Argentina in the light of the contributions of critical Future Studies concerning the narrative dimension in the last years. This research is specifically focused on analyzing applications of the scenario method in an institute of technology development in Argentina (BInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria^) using the causal layered analysis as a method of examination and adopting the narrative Foresight approach. We analyze how the narrative approach permeates the scenario method in the process of development, thus increasing the potential usefulness and impact of the method. Moreover, we also reflect on the utility of this approach in order to increase the strategic vision of complex organizations which are shaped, to a great extent, by linear schemes of thought where the empiric dimension of reality operates with a value of truth.

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Section: Introduction: Context and Methods Of Analysismentioning

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Narrative foresight in technical organizations: epistemological and methodological contributions from a practice of scenario method in Argentina

Patrouilleau

2017

Eur J Futures Res

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“…These tools are deconstruction, breaking apart a given text, and asking critical questions about it; genealogy, tracing a concept through its journey through various discourses; distancing, seeing future imaginaries as critiques of the present, which open new possibilities; alternative pasts and futures, questioning both given pasts and given futures; and reordering knowledge, analyzing how the prioritizing of knowledge varies "across civilization, gender, and episteme." Ahlqvist and Rhisiart (2015) propose three emancipatory pathways for participatory futuring engagements. The first pathway is the "construction of futures through sociotechnical practices," which includes the actions of identifying key future concepts, the evolution of everyday futures images, social practices creating or changing future ideas, and entities and politics that "frame, build, or change" future ideas.…”

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Entangling and Elevating Creativity and Criticality in Participatory Futuring Engagements

Raleigh

Heinonen

2018

World Futures Review

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This article proposes that creativity and criticality not only can but should be entangled and elevated in participatory futuring engagements. Selected concepts from creativity theory and critical futures studies are applied to develop a set of futuring games through action research. We claim that participatory processes designed to entangle and elevate creativity and criticality produce more novel and varied ideas that better fit the purposes of futures studies. This article offers four arguments for combining creativity and criticality in participatory futuring engagements. First, due to complexity and uncertainty, the future is ultimately unknowable and requires tools to probe the unknown. Second, novelty is difficult to achieve in practice while creativity and criticality can help overcome these challenges. Third, discontinuities are the main sources of futures that are most radically different from the present and will have the biggest impact. Fourth, creativity and criticality support the rigorous imagining required for exploring and discovering new possible futures. This article analyzes three experimentations in entangling and elevating creativity and criticality in game-based futuring, stemming from Causal Layered Analysis. Based on these examples, we demonstrate that creativity and criticality, when combined, help people break through the limitations of current understanding, reveal approaching tipping points, and find the "unvisited cavities" through rhizomatic knowledge creation. However, there remain challenges in evaluating how well various participatory designs support creativity and criticality in practice. Context-sensitive evaluation tools and open sharing of outcomes are needed to develop participation design principles capable of supporting creativity and criticality in participatory futuring.

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“…The debate about the theoretical background of foresight and future studies has been going on for a few decades but the discipline of future studies is not that well established compared with other mainstream fields such as sociology or political science (Öner, 2010;Ahlqvista & Rhisiartb, 2015;Bell, 2002). There is, however, a range of distinctive features that distinguish this discipline from others (Bell, 2002).…”

Section: Foresight and Future Studies As A Conceptual Tool In Internamentioning

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Setting the scene for alternative futures for European Union’s foreign policy 2025

Sus

2018

Futures

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Emerging pathways for critical futures research: Changing contexts and impacts of social theory

Cited by 75 publications

References 45 publications

Narrative foresight in technical organizations: epistemological and methodological contributions from a practice of scenario method in Argentina

Narrative foresight in technical organizations: epistemological and methodological contributions from a practice of scenario method in Argentina

Entangling and Elevating Creativity and Criticality in Participatory Futuring Engagements

Setting the scene for alternative futures for European Union’s foreign policy 2025

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