Time’s Calling: Time, Timing, and Transformation in Futures Work

Bussey, Marcus

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“…Initially, that of the clock represents many of the features (litany and systems) and worldviews that inform dominant approaches to sustainability. In the same way that Bussey (2017) links clock time to business-as-usual approaches, this metaphor brings forth concepts of linearity and absolutes when dealing with environmental or social challenges. This metaphor or visual narrative is reflective of characteristics described at earlier layers of the CLA; fragmentation of policies and programs, the consideration of human objectives as separate from nature and the reliance on technical solutions to “fix” the elements of the urban machine that are failing to produce desired outcomes.…”

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Regenerative urbanism: a causal layered analysis

Camrass

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to analyse both traditional and regenerative fields across four layers, litany, systems, worldviews and myth/metaphor. It aims to provide in-depth insight into the beliefs, values epistemologies and assumptions that scaffold thinking and practice. As a result of this analysis, future implications for regenerative urban practice are also considered. Design/methodology/approach Prevailing sustainability approaches seek to mitigate further harm in urban centres by increasing efficiency and minimising resource consumption and impact. They are primarily underpinned by a reductionist worldview that separates human objectives from those of the natural world. In contrast, regenerative approaches to urban sustainability have emerged out of an ecological worldview and aim to achieve net positive outcomes as a result of co-evolutionary relationships between social and ecological systems. This paper explores both approaches in urban communities through futures thinking tool, causal layered analysis. Findings As a result of the causal layered analysis undertaken, this paper provides insights into regenerative thinking and practice in urban settings. These insights cover four main thematic categories: purpose, place, practice and progress. Moving to the deeper layers of worldview and myth metaphor analysis, in particular, has significant implications for ongoing practice, including facilitating processes by which communities can reflect upon, unpack and reconstruct their concepts of future “success”. Originality/value Anthropogenic climate change continues to deliver worsening ecological, social and economic impacts globally. Urban centres are particularly central to this crisis given their massive resource consumption and rapid population growth. This paper provides an alternative, deep analysis to consider thinking and practice required for urban regeneration. It reveals the need for a shift in purpose and a deeper understanding of place, illustrating the roles that futures tools may place in this transition.

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Regenerative urbanism: a causal layered analysis

Camrass

2022

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“…It also recognises that this narrative may be integrally linked to the social or spiritual frameworks of certain individual groups, who may of course consider time from different literal and figurative perspectives. The way in which we hope, key to any quest for more regenerative futures, may also be conditioned by our temporal models (Bussey, 2017).…”

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Regenerative futures

Camrass

2020

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate how futures concepts may further existing regenerative sustainability thinking. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews existing regenerative fields, including regenerative design, regenerative development and regenerative sustainability as alternatives to conventional sustainability practice. It considers futures concepts that may deepen regenerative thinking and practice to develop a regenerative futures conceptual model. Findings This paper demonstrates how regenerative fields and futures studies have the capacity to reciprocally inform one another and builds upon this relationship through the development of a regenerative futures conceptual model. Originality/value This paper makes a number of theoretical contributions. First, it demonstrates how regenerative fields and futures thinking may reciprocally inform one another and, subsequently, enrich regenerative practice. Second, by drawing from futures thinking, it questions and ultimately lengthens notions of reality and time from a regenerative perspective. Finally, through the proposal of a regenerative futures conceptual model, it offers an alternative lens to analyse human behaviours and their associated impacts. In this way, it introduces a theoretical model that is focused on deep individual and collective transformation and a starting point for future research and refinement.

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Don't push the wrong button. The concept of microperspective in futures research

Virmajoki,

Laakkonen

2024

Futures & Foresight Science

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In this paper, we introduce the notion of a microperspective to futures research. Contrary to the more traditional timespans of futures research that are measured in years or decades, a microperspective focuses on shorter timespans that can be measured even in minutes. We point out that the use of a microperspective can provide an understanding of the central issues of futures research from a new angle. These issues involve the difficulties in estimating the future, the entanglement of the future with accounts of it, and the (in)ability to relate to certain futures. We argue that a microperspective can provide an understanding of how patterns shaping the future are created, how people respond to patterns, and how conflicts and misunderstandings shape the future. As an illustrative case, we discuss how the workings of elevators and the development of predictive algorithms in Kone corporation shape the future moment‐by‐moment in an interaction between the users and the developers. A microperspective shows how the different temporal orientations of the actors and their different interpretations of the environment interact. The case indicates that a microperspective can provide a novel way to study some of the central issues in futures research. The case also indicates that the notion of a microperspective is not merely an academic concept but has practical utility in planning and creating the future.

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Time’s Calling: Time, Timing, and Transformation in Futures Work

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Regenerative urbanism: a causal layered analysis

Regenerative urbanism: a causal layered analysis

Regenerative futures

Don't push the wrong button. The concept of microperspective in futures research

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