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Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103642

Lauri Laine

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AI-assisted braintstorming for scenario thinking 人工智能辅助的头脑风暴场景思维

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103644

Nicholas J. Rowland , David J. Grüning

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Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future 虚拟飞毯和数字灾难室：对未来博物馆沉浸式投机环境的批判性分析

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103643

Jessica Pykett , Keri Facer , Carolina Valladares-Celis , Ben Williamson

{"title":"Virtual flying carpets and digital disaster rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future","authors":"Jessica Pykett , Keri Facer , Carolina Valladares-Celis , Ben Williamson","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103643","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103643","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Around the world we are seeing the emergence of new institutions and organisations offering immersive speculative environments which deploy virtual and mixed realities to give participants a ‘live experience’ of the future. Often (but not exclusively) found in an emerging network of ‘museums of the future’, the distinctive affordances of these mixed reality environments have yet to be fully grasped in terms of their implications for public participation in futures thinking and futures-making. Given the complex sociodigital features of these environments, the paper proposes a novel conceptual framework for interdisciplinary study. This draws on an integrative literature review of engineering, design education, humanities and psychology fields already engaging with the implications of immersive speculative environments. This review draws out the technological, textual, interventionist, political-economic and critical pedagogical questions these raise. It then puts this work into dialogue with the futures education literature and proposes critical lines of inquiry for Futures Studies. The paper argues that, as corporate and state actors increasingly play a significant role in the design and powerful immersive speculative environments, there is an important role for Futures Studies to critically examine the contribution (or otherwise) of these environments to the public imagination and making of futures. In particular, it argues that urgent attention is required to questions of authorship, affordances, audiences, agency and accumulation</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103643"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144330340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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De-presentify the border: Social imaginaries and mobility justice 去呈现边界：社会想象和流动正义

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103641

Jacopo Anderlini, Vincenza Pellegrino

{"title":"De-presentify the border: Social imaginaries and mobility justice","authors":"Jacopo Anderlini, Vincenza Pellegrino","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103641","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103641","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the practices of solidarity with people in transit across various border areas of the Mediterranean, in Italy and in Tunisia. Grounded in cultural sociology, the study examines how social actors organize their mobility in the face of\"necropolitical inhospitality\" (Mbembe 2003). The text investigates the mechanisms of self-organization and dynamics of solidarity that enable migrants' movements, while also questioning the visions of the future that shape and are shaped by bordering processes. The paper delves into the \"philosophies of history\" born from the desire and practice of crossing the border, exploring how temporalities are conceived, what past is ingrained, and how the idea of \"modernity as linear trajectory\" is challenged. Theborder is conceptualized as a privileged context for investigating contemporary \"horizons of expectation\", where the non-mobility of some is governed alongside the hyper-mobility of others. The paper aims to critically engage with the promise of development for all, the contradictions of modernity, and the ways in which Europe's reluctance to assert rights is manifested at the border. By focusing on the border as a specific scenario of future-making, the essay explores the actions of disobedience to immobility and their implications as acts of \"depresentification\".</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103641"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144297570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A decolonial and participatory research approach to envision equitable transformations toward sustainability in the Amazon 一种非殖民化和参与性的研究方法，设想在亚马逊地区实现可持续发展的公平转变

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103638

Paula Andrea Sánchez-García , Barbara Schröter , Torsten Krause , Andrew Sean Merrie , Laura Pereira , Jonas Østergaard Nielsen , Lasse Loft

{"title":"A decolonial and participatory research approach to envision equitable transformations toward sustainability in the Amazon","authors":"Paula Andrea Sánchez-García , Barbara Schröter , Torsten Krause , Andrew Sean Merrie , Laura Pereira , Jonas Østergaard Nielsen , Lasse Loft","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How people relate to and see themselves as part of nature relations differs worldwide and often depends on culture and worldviews. Nonetheless, challenging the dominant Euro-Western epistemic domination is needed to attain more equitable and sustainable future visions. This change entails fostering decolonial mediation between different knowledge systems in a context of intersectional difference. The collective struggles of Black, Indigenous, and other Women of Color (BIWOC) for self-determination shed light on pathways of decolonial mediations and how to attain epistemic equity when thinking about the future. Echoing the call of BIWOC to use decoloniality in knowledge co-creation, we co-created a <em>border space</em> together with 20 BIWOC in the Putumayo department of Colombia. In this space, we jointly envisioned three radical visions of the Amazon through scenario-building exercises between 2022 and 2023. Storytelling is a powerful tool to capture the BIWOC’s differentiated experience of the world and to explore their individual and collective emancipation from different forms of oppression. Decolonial mediations support the (co-)design of a “safe enough” space for questioning and rethinking Euro-Western domination. Our research also indicates that incorporating decolonial praxis into sustainability transformation research can allow for a more radical envisioning of the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103638"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Envisioning sustainable climate imaginaries through an “engineering fiction” learning experience: A content analysis of youth stories 通过“工程小说”学习经验设想可持续气候的想象：青年故事的内容分析

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103637

Brandon Reynante , Nicole M. Ardoin , Roy Pea

{"title":"Envisioning sustainable climate imaginaries through an “engineering fiction” learning experience: A content analysis of youth stories","authors":"Brandon Reynante , Nicole M. Ardoin , Roy Pea","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dominant climate imaginaries (commonly shared understandings and mental representations of climate change) in Western industrialized nations privilege the logico-scientific mode of thought as well as apocalyptic or techno-utopian visions of the future, often triggering apathy and helplessness among youth while obscuring possibilities for political transformation. Using a participatory design research approach, we developed a learning experience that integrated engineering and solar punk-inspired speculative fiction writing to engage high-school students in imagining pathways toward just and sustainable climate futures. A content analysis of participant-authored stories written at the beginning and end of the learning experience revealed that, while students initially depicted typical climate imaginaries, they subsequently created new imaginaries representing emotionally charged narratives of collective action to catalyze systemic change toward sustainability. This study contributes to scholarly movements bringing emotional and critical lenses to climate education and futures studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103637"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The mythology of energy transitions: Rethinking FAIRy tales in postnormal times 能源转换的神话：后常态时代童话的再思考

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103612

Simone Haarbosch , Liam Mayo

{"title":"The mythology of energy transitions: Rethinking FAIRy tales in postnormal times","authors":"Simone Haarbosch , Liam Mayo","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103612","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103612","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Telling the story of the future requires a thoughtful and multifaceted approach. Dialogues experienced as complex and problematic due to different (hidden) agendas. In the energy transition, assumptions often refer to much wider expectations of actors. Humans ceaselessly mythologize their environment. In doing so, the future is used as a principle to inspire action. This led to the following research question: How can mythologies help to understand power relations in the energy transition and create new forms of agency among the different roles that are at play? Building on the work of <span><span>Haarbosch et al. (2021)</span></span>, we continued analysing the future “narrative mismatches” in the context of the Dutch energy transition. The open answers of a large survey (N = 2500) about energy justice were compared with myths using a Causal Layered Analysis (Inayatullah, 2004). The results highlight how conceptualisations of characters were destabilised since the introduction of time as measurable item, and how this led to redefined ideas of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and consequently to new experiences of (non)<em>belonging</em>. Our results show that mythologies in present times lacked three key themes; relevant role models, loyality and to whom, agency over the story being constructed. We close our paper with a suggestion to craft stories of hope.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103612"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144169570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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In a loop of anticipation: The anticipatory practices of MedTech industry actors 在预期的循环中：医疗技术行业参与者的预期实践

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103629

Renee Else Michels , Diana Maria Johanna Delnoij , Martinus Bertram de Graaff

{"title":"In a loop of anticipation: The anticipatory practices of MedTech industry actors","authors":"Renee Else Michels , Diana Maria Johanna Delnoij , Martinus Bertram de Graaff","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The (anticipatory) governance of medical technology (MedTech) involves different types of actors. An important but under-theorized actor within the governance network are the companies that develop and market MedTech. In this paper, we use an anticipatory practice (AP) lens to critically reflect on the APs of mainly Dutch MedTech industry actors. We distinguish three categories of APs, provide examples, and describe complicating factors. Overall, we show that the APs of private industry and public governance actors are highly interdependent. We reflect on these interdependencies and offer the theoretical concept of an 'anticipatory loop' between public and private governance actors. We discuss the need for public governance actors to be aware of the uncertainties exacerbated by such an anticipatory loop and reflect on the complexities of an emerging desire to step out of this loop and anticipate together in an open and reflexive space. We make the case for an approach to the AG of MedTech that includes APs aimed at creating reflexive space for dialogue in addition to more long-term, standardized procedures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103629"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144169569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Archetypes of collaboration within urban transport system scenarios 城市交通系统场景中的协作原型

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103628

Alberto Rojas-Rivero , Miguel L. Navarro-Ligero , María Eugenia López-Lambas , Julio A. Soria-Lara

{"title":"Archetypes of collaboration within urban transport system scenarios","authors":"Alberto Rojas-Rivero , Miguel L. Navarro-Ligero , María Eugenia López-Lambas , Julio A. Soria-Lara","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103628","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103628","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scenario planning can become a useful framework for dealing with uncertain contexts in urban transportation planning. However, academic literature has contested its outcomes due to the difficulties in exploring changing actors’ interactions underlying resulting scenarios. To address this issue, an archetype-based process for building urban transport scenarios was implemented to explore the representation of diverse collaboration forms within scenario narratives. Collaborative planning and scenario-building literature provided key dimensions of social capital for building collaboration archetypes out of the analysis of 158 scenario narratives, using natural language processing techniques. The use of proposed archetypes as input for a two-round Delphi-based process enabled experts to evaluate and contextualize them as part of the content of future scenarios of urban transport systems in Spanish mid-size cities. The main results enabled the researchers to synthesize the experts’ inputs and reactions in four long-term scenarios: Integrated Smart City, City of Good Intentions, Expansive Hypermobility, and Proximity Transition. These scenarios describe diverse collaboration forms (technology-driven, conservative, conventional, adaptive and localist) in the local and sectoral contexts. The obtained results highlight and discuss the potential of representing forms of collaboration within scenarios to facilitate an effective integration of strategic scenario-building into planning processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103628"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies 新兴人工智能技术背景下的教与学的未来

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103616

Elochukwu Ukwandu , Omobolanle Omisade , Karl Jones , Simon Thorne , Mike Castle

{"title":"The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies","authors":"Elochukwu Ukwandu , Omobolanle Omisade , Karl Jones , Simon Thorne , Mike Castle","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.futures.2025.103616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies (AI) such as AI-Bots (ChatGPT) and AI-Agents, it is imperative that adequate adjustment be made, and also seen to be made. However, this has to be done from an informed positions. There is no doubt that these disruptive technologies are changing the way we live, conduct our day-to-day businesses, teach, learn and conduct research. There are also emerging concerns that these dynamics may result in a paradigm shift from student-teacher relationship to student-AI-Tutor-based relationship within the academic circle. Besides, there are foreseeable dangers of compromising academic integrity through high-technology plagiarism and the potentials of students avoiding learning through AI deployment and utilisation in their academic pursuits. But something worth considering is how applying these tools in education will potentially change the entire classroom experience of students, their knowledge and skills outcomes that are relevant in this AI era. This position paper is an effort to put into context what the authors of this paper forecast as the future of teaching and learning in the context of these inevitable disruptions to education activities and its subsectors as we currently know it. The authors found it necessary to take these positions to help bring to fore some practical use cases of AI in education; recent developments and theoretical frameworks in literature, technical reports, as well as experts opinions that can help assuage stakeholder’s concerns despite some obvious existing challenges. It is our view that this paper will be found useful by educators, stakeholders and administrators in the areas of curriculum design, classroom administration and entire academic planning and reviews.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103616"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144070679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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