Learning and transforming with planetary futures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 4
3. Foreword 9
4. Introduction 12
5. PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS
6. People, teams, and identity
7. Settling-in to the future: An organizational identity perspective 50
8. Dos and don’ts of futurecasting 60
9. Statement 66
10. A transformative entrepreneurial journey: Addressing corporate future challenges with innovation and intrapreneurship 70
11. Statement 78
12. Counterfactual thinking and imagination
13. Harnessing imagination to improve strategic decision-making 82
14. How we imagine the future 92
15. Stories to imagine alternate futures 102
16. Not-knowing as a heuristic of its own: Certain uncertainties in futures research 112
17. Ambitions, objectives, and sensemaking
18. Beyond the death sentence of striving for better futures: Can humanity hear the universe? 124
19. Dealing with the future: Exploring ways to remain ambitious while putting a piece of yourself into the future you are looking for 130
20. Statement 142
21. Enabling desired futures at Arup 144
22. INTERVIEW 152
23. FUTURECASTING WITH DATA
24. Making probable futures discernible through facts
25. Learning and transforming with planetary futures 166
26. Statement 180
27. Futures thinking: Anticipating society’s embedding of new & emerging technologies 182
28. Data dilemmas: The material and the imaginary 190
29. Donald, tell us how: Futurecasting principles for empowering human-centered design 200
30. INTERVIEW 210
31. FUTURECASTING WITH FICTION
32. Making futures plausible through cognitive experience
33. Science fiction is a Luddite literature 222
34. Except in science fiction? Why you can get there from here 224
35. Future perfect? Telling better stories about AI and technology 232
36. Teaching critical optimism: Seven lessons from a decade of sci-fi prototyping 242
37. Statement 252
38. Using diegetic prototypes to create a future worth living in 256
39. Plausible futures: Cognitively balancing complexity, corroboration, & conjecture in futurecasting 270
40. The Iron Fist and The Velvet Glove: “The future simulator” 286
41. INTERVIEW 292
42. FUTURECASTING WITH MATTER
43. Making futures plausible with bodily experience
44. In praise of vacuums 308
45. Experiential insight: When we do, we understand 318
46. Statement 328
47. Embodying futures: The transformative power of embodied learning experiences 334
48. Statement 348
49. Cultivating creativity and freeing the imagination: The case for participatory futuring 350
50. Future making, futurecasting, and matter: The Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport case study 366
51. The dilemmas & delights of corporate tomorrowing 380
52. Using the power of gameworlds 394
53. How to make futures plausible? Personal experiences from EU policymaking 408
54. Leaning into the unknown: Insights into an immersive method of co-creation 420
55. AFTERTHOUGHTS
56. What we can learn for practice
57. Beyond the obvious: Re-imagining corporate strategy 434
58. What did I take away as a practitioner? 446
59. Contributor biographies 457
60. Acknowledgement 470