2015

Vol.20 No.2 Dec.2015

• Introduction
  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Science Fiction and Futures Studies
• Article
  • Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future
  • What in the World? Storyworlds, Science Fiction, and Futures Studies
  • Chasing Black Swans through Science Fiction: Surprising Future Events in the Stories of a Finnish Writing Competition
  • Science Fiction and Bodies of the Future: Alternative Gender Realities in Hollywood Cinema
  • Forcing the Design of Fictional Futures: From Theory to Cases Implementation
• Essay
  • Impact Assessment and Science Fiction: Complementary Ways to Ask “What happens if…?” and the Delineation of a New Sub-genre
  •  Imagining the Impossible: The Shifting Role of Utopian Thought in Civic Planning, Science Fiction, and Futures Studies
  •  Olaf Stapledon: Personal Reflections on Cosmic Inspiration from a Pioneering Visionary
  • The Wrath of Gaia vs. the Second Coming of Science: Beyond Interstellar’s Dualistic Narrative
• Book Review
• • Wellspring of Optimism, a Review of “Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future”

• Vol. 20  No. 1  Sept. 2015

  • Articles
    • Anticipatory Leadership and Strategic Foresight: Five ‘Linked Literacies’
    • Internal Crisis as an Impediment to Futures Thinking
    • Engaging Futures 2030: Futures Methods Transforming Governance
    • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
    • A Foresight Analysis of Pervasive Healthcare Technologies
  • Symposium
    • Introduction to the Symposium on ‘Intuition in Futures Work’
    • The Inner Game of Futures
    • Applying Intuitive Methods in Explorations of  Preferred Futures
    • Intuition and Evolution –How I Find It Essential to Use Intuition in My Futures Work
    • Intuiting the Future(s)
    • Learning to Use Intuition in Futures Studies: A Bibliographic Essay on Personal Sources,Processes and Concerns
    • Classical Intuition and Critical Futures
    • Intuition, Rationality and Imagination

•  Vol. 19  No.3 Mar. 2015

  • • Articles
    • • Toilet Futures: Sustainability, Scenarios and Climate Change Futures
      • Exploring the Future of Infant Feeding:Scenarios About the Future of Parenting,Infant Nutrition and Consumer Habits in The United States of America
      • A Critical Analysis of Four South East Queensland City Futures Initiatives
      • Scenarios for Australia in 2050:A Synthesis and Proposed Survey
      • Healing Ourselves and Healing the World:Consumerism and the Culture of Addiction
    • Reports
      • Using a Futures Method to Improve anOlder Adult’s Computer Learning Program:Lessons for a Beginning Futurist

• Vol. 19  No. 4  June.2015

  • Articles
    • Asynchronous Online Foresight Panels: The Case of Wildfire ManagementBorderless Industrial Denizenship: A Transformative Space for the Creation of Alternative Futures in Global Economic MigrationChaos Theory and Socio-Economic Renewal in Hungary
    • Armed Conflict Versus Global Sustainable Development as Functions of Social Change
    • Reformulating the Party-List Proportional Representatives to Proportional Future Generations Representatives: the Korean Case 
    • Asian Urbanization Futures: Nine Practitioner Recommendations
    • Reflections on a Workshop on the Future of Higher Education for Knowledge Economy in Bangladesh
  • Book Review
  • A Review of Elina Hiltunen’s “Foresight and Innovation: How Companies are Coping with theFuture” Palgrave, 2013.