2022 was a busy year of publishing innovation for the Journal of Futures Studies, publishing our first monograph and our first book anthology. These titles are now available to buy on hard copy and digital download. If you’re looking for some good reading to kick off your 2023, have a look at these publications. Anticipation to Emancipation: Toward a Stage Theory of the Uses of the Future by Sohail Inayatullah Drawing on hundreds of case studies and decades of using the future in professional settings, this article moves toward a stage theory of the uses of the future, inquiring…
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Special Issue – International Conference on Design Futures 2022 (ICDF 2022) Website: http://www.designfutures.cn/en/ Deadlines: Please send your abstracts to: paper@designfutures.cn Note: After submitting your abstract, please submit the complete paper here when you receive the acceptance notice. https://ojs.jfsdigital.org/index.php/jfs/about/submissions Submission of the full paper deadline extended : February 7, 2023 Guest Editors: Zhiyong Fu (Department of Information Art and Design, Tsinghua University, China) Anna Barbara (Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Peter Scupelli (School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ***** On December 2-3, 2022, the International Conference on Design Futures 2022 (ICDF 2022), focusing on educational action and social transformation,…
As part of our book launch we invited the public to contribute a meme that responds to our call to action: “How do we make futures thinking / analysis / studies infectious? So that we are better prepared for future epidemics and pandemics?” These are some of the entries for the #infectiousfutures meme competition. Event participants will be able to vote at the event for their favourite meme during the event. …
Book Launch Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds through and beyond COVID-19, is an anthology of 28 essays written during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, published by Tamkang University through JFS digital. It explores the symptoms, causes and futures of COVID-19 and offers a wide range of perspectives that provide pathways out of the pandemic, as well as strategies to deal with epidemics and pandemics into our futures. (see Table of Contents below). The launch will feature an introduction to the book content, and a conversation between editors and participating authors discussing the kind of thinking required…
In September 2021, we gathered online for the 7th Annual Asia-Pacific Futures Network (APFN) Conference titled “Recipes for Change: Co-Creating Post-Pandemic Futures Today”. The conference focused on fostering the co-creation of equitable, inclusive, and sustainable futures for Asia-Pacific and beyond. We tasted many dishes from the full menu ranging from future studies theoretical evolution to actual experiences of using the futures approach in tourism, higher education, the Blue Pacific Continent, fake news, climate change, post-normal pandemics, social media, natural disasters, youths, food, citizens, conflict transformation, the Philippines, and more. We introduced numerous methods and tools for advancing future literacy. They…
COVID-19 has brought about a rupture in the trajectory of our societies, presenting the world with an unprecedented crisis, but also providing a point of reflection and an opening to imagine and articulate alternative futures. “Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds Through and Beyond COVID-19” brings together 28 essays, articles and conversations from leading scholars and thinkers from around the world, who explore the existential questions that COVID-19 confronts us with, and who analyse and imagine how we may navigate this crisis to create preferred futures. This book challenges many of the core assumptions of our era, and invites us…
Journal of Futures Studies – Special Issue Call for Papers Divergent and conflicting world views have always been part of our world. Yet today we see fundamental shifts in the way in which online digital dynamics birth new realities of living, thinking and interacting, some which drive new unities and emergences, and others which drive division. The emergence and proliferation of fake news, alternative facts and web-driven conspiracy theories, a conjunction across cynical demagoguery, internet technology and existing cultural standpoints, is one of the most fundamental ruptures the world has experienced to date. Our previous shared realities of how to…
Article Images of the Future: Perspectives of Students from Barcelona Carles Anguera ＆ Antoni Santisteban (Page 1-18) Abstract | View PDF Using CLA to Deconstruct Current Scholarly Views on Corporate Accountability to Community Marcelle Holdaway (Page 19-34) Abstract | View PDF An Analysis of Queensland City Futures Initiatives: Using CLA to Analyse Processes of Planning and Engagement Colin Russo (Page 35-48) Abstract | View PDF Delving into the Future of Iran’s English Language Teaching in Light of Technology Samira Yaghooty & Reza Pishghadam (Page 49-62) Abstract | View PDF Remember Icarus! Seven Risks that Threaten Business Schools Christopher Barnatt, Ken Starkey…