Journal of Futures Studies

Call for Papers for the Hesitant Feminist's Guide to the Future Deadline extended - 15 Oct 2024. Submission details can be found here https://lnkd.in/gsNDtwd2 Ivana Milojević will be presenting a keynote at the APFN 2024 Bangkok Day 2, 5th Sept, 08:30 – 10:00  : Becoming a Feminist Futurist - Asia Pacific Perspectives In this session leading female futurists in the region will explore the enduring reasons behind gender inequality and will focus on envisioning alternative and preferred futures. Opening speaker Ivana Milojević will discuss “The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future and What That Means for the Asia Pacific?” Following by an engaging panel with futurist from different parts of Asia and the Pacific. Note: This session can be continued in a more participatory session followed after the coffee break.  Keynote: Ivana Milojević, Metafuture This is followed by a workshop at 11:00 – 12:30 :  Workshops C1: Become a Feminist Futurist: Asia Pacific Perspectives {Room 503} This participatory workshop on Gender Equitable/Feminist Futures will utilize futures thinking and three futures methodologies (The Futures Triangle, The Change Progression Scenario Method, and The Causal Layered Analysis) to refine and/or transform current strategies. Participants will explore constructive approaches and diverse ways of knowing, aiming to expand and deepen the dialogue on achieving gender-equitable goals in the region. This session is open to participants of all genders and will serve as a platform to utilise futures thinking to guide our collective and individual endeavor Facilitators: Nur Anisah PhD, Ivana Milojević Are you coming to the Conference? Registration https://lnkd.in/gKy3gsi9

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FUTURES-ORIENTED WRITING AND RESEARCH Tony Stevenson and Sohail Inayatullah (1998), Futures Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1–2 Futures-oriented writing and research should constitute: -  visions/scenarios of the future, preferably more than a generation ahead, and preferably alternative visions/scenarios; - methodologies of futures studies, that is: (a) how to engage in a study of the future or alternative futures; (b) ways to research how people and civilizations (as well as other units of analysis) study or otherwise think about the future; or (c) analyses of procedures for forecasting and anticipating; - epistemological assumptions of studies of the future, for example, the layers of meaning hidden in various forecasts; - means for attaining a vision of the future, for example, backcasting (certainly going beyond strategic planning and strategy in general); - explicit consideration of the longer-term (from 25 to 1000 years, from one to seven to 30 generations) consequences of today’s actions; - implications for the present and past of particular visions and scenarios; - theories of social, spiritual, economic and technological change that directly examine where and how society is moving and can move to, ie the shape of time, space and perception; - analysis of events and moments in human history where a different future could have been followed and why it was not, that is, historical or genealogical alternative futures; I deconstruction of texts explicitly on the future to show what is missing from a particular scenario, image of the future, that is, critical and value-oriented analyses of a particular future or alternative futures; - novel social analysis or social innovation that can create different or unconventional futures different from today; - differences and similarities in how civilizations, men and women imagine, create and know the future including historical changes in the idea and the practice of the future; I what ought the future be like and who should make such decisions including discussions of the ethics of forecasting. Full article here: https://lnkd.in/gdhSst7S

ATTRIBUTES OF A FUTURIST - according to Jim Dator (1993) Futures Studies as Applied Knowledge I was recently asked to describe the attributes of a futurist, or what I thought was necessary if one wanted to become a good student and practitioner of futures studies. This was my response: To be a good futurist, you need the widest possible knowledge of the history and present condition of as many cultures and civilizations as possible; you must know more than one culture, and thus more than one language, intimately; widest possible knowledge of all aspects of all the social sciences; widest possible knowledge of current and emerging developments in the natural sciences, and their emerging sub disciplines and transdisciplines, for example, evolutionary systems theory, chaos theory, and brain science; widest possible familiarity with developments in engineering (especially electronics and genetics), architecture, and space sciences; widest possible familiarity with philosophy, ethics, morals, and religions, and certainly the ethical discourse of as many different traditions as possible; widest possible familiarity with law and planning; an active awareness of esthetics and the esthetic element in all aspects of life. A continuing experience of esthetic expression in some, or preferably many, modes; creativity, imagination, the willingness to think new thoughts, to make unmade connections, to be ridiculed, laughed at, and to laugh at yourself; ability to synthesize, combine, invent, create; willingness to be politically active, to test out new ideas on yourself first and while trying actually to create a better world, or some portion of it; ability to try to anticipate the consequences of actions before you act, but also the willingness to risk failure and to learn from mistakes and criticism--indeed to seek out and provoke criticism--but to keep trying to do better, and constantly to relearn what 'better' might be; insatiable curiosity, unbounded compassion, incurable optimism, and an unquenchable sense of humor and delight in the absurd. All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come; revering the future; without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the experiences of the past; always desiring to try something new; to go where no one has ever gone before in all areas of human--and non-human, and, soon, post-human--experience. https://lnkd.in/gWAdcEQA

The man who beats the drum for Futures Studies. I think it was in 1991 at the Hawaii Judicial Foresight Congress in Honolulu. Jim Dator was a major speaker—if not the keynote speaker—before a very large audience. After he was introduced, Jim walked to the podium and, as the audience quieted down, he stood for a moment or two looking at the assembled crowd. Then, suddenly, he dropped straight down and disappeared behind the podium. Instantly, all eyes in the conference auditorium became riveted on that empty podium. Everyone was wondering what had happened to him. A few long seconds passed in silence. Then, up popped Jim from behind the podium. He was wearing mock rabbit’s ears on his head and was furiously beating a small tin drum. He had turned himself into the Energizer Bunny.(continue…) - Wendell Bell (2013) Journal of Futures Studies. https://lnkd.in/gcGdqe69

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🎉 Announcing the Joint APFN-JFS Award 2023 for the Best Academic work published in the Journal of Futures Studies recognizing outstanding contributions in futures studies focusing on the Pacific-Asia region. 🏆 Best Overall Futures Article Dave Adams for “The Future of Sport and Recreation in New Zealand” 🔗 Read the article https://lnkd.in/g_k8mpnJ However, the selection committee for the best articles, consisting of six distinguished futurists and foresight practitioners, wanted to acknowledge two more articles by the following authors: 🏆 Best Research/Methods Article Dr. Nur Anisah Abdullah & Azra Naimi Ismadi for “Exploring Images of Women Cyclists’ Futures Using the Futures Triangle” 🔗 Read the article https://lnkd.in/gNrdVf4b 🏆 Best Philosophical Focused Article Mr. Steven Lichty for “The Role of the Chef: Exploring Eschatological and Nationalistic Components in Recipes for Change in the Asia-Pacific Region” 🔗 Read the article https://lnkd.in/gJbGXX7U Congratulations to all the awardees for their exemplary scholarship and dedication! 🌟 Your work not only enriches our academic community but also provides valuable insights for the future of the Pacific-Asia region. Note: The APFN awards are given on a yearly basis only in three categories: (1) Individual Contribution in an Institution Enhancing Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific, (2) Best Article Enhancing Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific, and (3) The Most Significant Contribution as an Institution to the Asia-Pacific Futures Community. #APFN #JFS #FuturesStudies #FuturesLiteracy #Futuresthinking #APF #Strategicforesight

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