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The Journal of Futures Studies “Perspectives” is a space for exploring transformative ideas for social and socio-ecological change as well as challenging “used futures.” We team up with The Briefing. Today, a futures-oriented podcast that speaks to people’s curiosity to adventure in unchartered territories and desire to innovate by inclusion and diversity.
The Briefing. Today as JFS Perspectives encourages to embrace an attitude toward the wonder of uncertainty and novelty to inspire creative imagination to design for sustainable futures. Its objectives are to create awareness, share, and innovate.

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Peter Scoblic: Long-Term Anticipatory Thinking

The way we frame our thinking highly influences the very way we reason. The way we act is consequently influenced by the way we think. And then, we give a meaning, we define our surroundings based on such framing. The combination of framing and reasoning affect the way we create hypotheses of the future, whether this is considered probable, possible, plausible and so on. Today I am grateful for the opportunity to welcome Peter Scoblic at The Briefing.Today to talk about long term anticipatory thinking. Peter is co-founder at Event Horizon Strategies.

Richard Sandford: Heritage Mindset

Time goes by and elements of the past are carried over into the future becoming heritage. Decisions are made on what to carry and what to leave behind, maybe some will be forgotten. How do we make such a decision on what to carry across? What do we as humans look for in making a heritage decision? Today we will talk about the concept of heritage mindset with Richard Sandford, Professor at UCL in Heritage Evidence, Foresight and Policy. Richard has a diverse array of experience: coding, education, futures studies, futures literacy, policy, ethnographic research.

Nicklas Larsen: Applied Futurism

How do we apply futures studies? Why do we need to look into different futures? What is the impact in the present? Today I am thrilled to be joined by Nicklas Larsen, Senior Advisor at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, one of the oldest think tanks studying the future, in the world.

Ivana Milojević: Futures Fallacies

Biases are part of our day-to-day thinking and decision making. There are also futures fallacies which sways us from envisioning, using Dorr’s terms, “realistic” futures in an effective and efficient manner. These are common errors we fall trap while reasoning about futures. Today I am joined by Ivana Milojević, director at Metafuture and Metafuture School, who has extensive experience researching and experimenting on the subject matter.

Maree Conway: Episodic foresight

Episodic foresight is identified as the primary neural mechanism that enables humans to construct images of the futures, providing explanatory power to further define and understand the processes that are invoked in futures studies and foresight activities. These enlightening words are from Maree Conway who joins us to chat about How humans can imagine and construct images of the future, and what happens in our brain. Maree has extensive expertise on foresight in practice, and she is founder of Foresight Futures, a consultancy studio on strategic foresight.