Placing the Future

This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the uncertainties of the future that humanity faces. Leading scholars from the fields of future studies, planning, geography, history, sociology, design, and the humanities sensitize for the intricate role of geography in building knowledge to anti...

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description This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the uncertainties of the future that humanity faces. Leading scholars from the fields of future studies, planning, geography, history, sociology, design, and the humanities sensitize for the intricate role of geography in building knowledge to anticipate probable, to imagine alternative, and to enact desirable futures. Part I, knowing the future, explores strategies for anticipating possible futures, such as foresight methods, scenarios, and guiding images. This section underscores the importance of cultivating future consciousness to confront societal denial of looming threats like environmental crises. Part II, envisioning the future, delves into various ways societies imagine their futures, exploring topics like the future of food, post-growth economies, extra-terrestrial futures, and even human self-extinction to reveal how futurist scenarios can inform decision making and proactive planning. Part III, enacting the future, focuses on the performative aspects of futuring. The authors in this section examine practices—such as designing, performing, advising, and governing—that are aimed at transforming desired futures into present realities. As part of a series on the interdisciplinary nexus between knowledge and space, this book is an essential resource for researchers, policy makers, planners, students, and practitioners in the fields of sustainability, future studies, regional development, and governance.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1594242025-05-14T04:08:46Z Placing the Future Glückler, Johannes Garschagen, Matthias Panitz, Robert Knowledge and Space future studies on space and knowledge scenario thinking governing ways into the future techniques of futuring social, economic and environmental uncertainties alternative economic futures preparing for catastrophe utopian and dystopian futures This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the uncertainties of the future that humanity faces. Leading scholars from the fields of future studies, planning, geography, history, sociology, design, and the humanities sensitize for the intricate role of geography in building knowledge to anticipate probable, to imagine alternative, and to enact desirable futures. Part I, knowing the future, explores strategies for anticipating possible futures, such as foresight methods, scenarios, and guiding images. This section underscores the importance of cultivating future consciousness to confront societal denial of looming threats like environmental crises. Part II, envisioning the future, delves into various ways societies imagine their futures, exploring topics like the future of food, post-growth economies, extra-terrestrial futures, and even human self-extinction to reveal how futurist scenarios can inform decision making and proactive planning. Part III, enacting the future, focuses on the performative aspects of futuring. The authors in this section examine practices—such as designing, performing, advising, and governing—that are aimed at transforming desired futures into present realities. As part of a series on the interdisciplinary nexus between knowledge and space, this book is an essential resource for researchers, policy makers, planners, students, and practitioners in the fields of sustainability, future studies, regional development, and governance. 2025-05-14T04:08:45Z 2025-05-14T04:08:45Z 2025-05-13T08:25:19Z 2025 book ONIX_20250513_9783031768415_29 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101683 9783031768415 9783031768408 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159424 eng Knowledge and Space open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101683/2/978-3-031-76841-5.pdf Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5 10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 4f945dca-653d-42a6-9aea-32be26bc0624 bcc4cdba-e61c-42b2-8e3e-636c4e9d22c4 9783031768415 9783031768408 Springer Nature Switzerland 342 Cham [...] Klaus Tschira Stiftung Klaus Tschira Foundation 10.13039/501100007316 open access
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future studies on space and knowledge
scenario thinking
governing ways into the future
techniques of futuring
social, economic and environmental uncertainties
alternative economic futures
preparing for catastrophe
utopian and dystopian futures
Placing the Future
title Placing the Future
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title_full_unstemmed Placing the Future
title_short Placing the Future
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topic Knowledge and Space
future studies on space and knowledge
scenario thinking
governing ways into the future
techniques of futuring
social, economic and environmental uncertainties
alternative economic futures
preparing for catastrophe
utopian and dystopian futures
topic_facet Knowledge and Space
future studies on space and knowledge
scenario thinking
governing ways into the future
techniques of futuring
social, economic and environmental uncertainties
alternative economic futures
preparing for catastrophe
utopian and dystopian futures
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