Futures

Papers
(The median citation count of Futures is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Collaborative imagination: A methodological approach89
Human agency and the technoscientific dilemma: Contesting the role of technology in shaping our collective futures69
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies65
Making transdisciplinarity work for complex systems: A dynamic model for blending diverse knowledges56
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future48
The engagement of home-based businesses in the digital economy47
Towards redress: The ‘not-yet’ future between harm and repair in Cape Town43
Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus: Diffusion of innovations and knowledge transfer37
The hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda35
Mastering futures literacy in higher education: An evaluation of learning outcomes and instructional design of a faculty development program34
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 205031
The IT revolution part 4: Transcending the matrix31
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response29
The ethics of doing human enhancement ethics29
Governance modes and epistemologies of future-oriented vulnerability assessments: Example of a mixed-methods approach28
Publics and counter-publics of net-zero27
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives27
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company27
The ethical motivation for post-normal science26
How universities study the future: A critical view26
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios26
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research25
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach25
The social construction of futures24
On the icy slopes of expertise: How a Cold War-era solution to the problem of expert opinion in science might transform the epistemology of simulation24
Brain fingerprinting: A promising future application for predicting mental illness23
Slow adoption of EVs under a weak policy regime: Future scenarios of EVs development and diffusion in Iran23
Mismatch, empowerment, fatigue or balance? Four scenarios of physical activity up to 2030 in Finland22
Future perfect climates: A phenomenological rejoinder to the performativity of climate change mitigation pathways21
Prospects of a transition to the knowledge economy in Saudi Arabia and Qatar: A critical reflection through the lens of spatial embeddedness and evolutionary governance theory21
Participatory mapping in exploratory scenario planning: Necessity or luxury?21
Young adults face the future of the United States: Perceptions of its promise, perils, and possibilities20
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity19
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Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?19
Fifteen shadows of socio-cultural AI: A systematic review and future perspectives19
In search of plan(et) B: Irrational rationality, capitalist realism, and space colonization19
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment19
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives18
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research18
Building individual futures capacity through transformative futures learning18
Covid-19 and the politics of hope: A comparative analysis of Greek and Ecuadorian letters from a desired post-pandemic future18
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design18
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures17
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows16
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A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies16
Return to normalcy: Transition and futures in insecure spaces16
Breaking out of conventions: How scenario planners can increase their reflexivity regarding societal imaginaries16
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow16
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Futures in the present: Unraveling foreclosing and pre-opening desired futures in the local environment with a Bourdieusian perspective15
Wising up through jazz and the metamorphosis of perception15
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik15
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Analysis of expert perspectives on possible futures of the urban areas of South Korea14
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene14
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H.G Wells, earthly and post-terrestrial futures14
The private sector to the rescue? Analysis of a hypothetical scenario of SG deployment13
Richard Slaughter: Critical Futures and the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies; Evaluation of a selection of Slaughter’s published work13
What makes long-term perspectives endure? Lessons from Dutch nature conservation13
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?13
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Whatever happened to pro-poor foresight? A systematic review13
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The critical futurist: Richard Slaughter’s foresight practice12
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework12
Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight12
Creating futures images for sustainable cruise ships: Insights on collaborative foresight for sustainability enhancement12
Disentangling strategic foresight? A critical analysis of the term building on the pioneering work of Richard Slaughter12
How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects12
Beyond the lifetime of organizations: A framework for multi-generational goal survival in the ecology of goals12
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures12
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?12
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis12
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 205012
Unifying weak signals definitions to improve construct understanding11
Limits of conceivability in the study of the future. Lessons from philosophy of science11
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective11
“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school11
A methodological path to foster inner peripheries’ sustainable and resilient futures: A research experience from Southern Italy11
An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy11
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies11
The sustainable development goals: A universalist promise for the future11
Reparative futures of smart urban governance: A speculative design approach for multispecies justice11
Post-automation10
A vernacular for living systems: Alternative framings for the future of food10
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification10
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean10
The implementation of a territorial foresight outcome through aligning goal frames: A pilot case of the gas disconnection in the Netherlands10
The adoption, diffusion & categorical ambiguity trifecta of social robots in e-health – Insights from healthcare professionals10
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future10
On the present-future impact of AI technologies on personnel selection and the exponential increase in meta-algorithmic judgments10
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together10
Digital futures of small businesses and entrepreneurial opportunity9
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul9
Relational visioning and the emerging future: Transforming towards a sustainable local society9
Defining future cities: A comparative review of future cities’ definitions and characteristics across multiple fields9
Envisioning inclusive futures: Organizational alternatives beyond the business case approach in the spectrum of utopia and dystopia9
Bringing energy futures to life: Anticipatory household storylines as possible energy futures9
Temporality in the United Nations 2030 Agenda: development or rupture?9
Participatory backcasting towards desirable co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester9
Planetary scale climatic change through bioengineering the microbial world. A technofix imaginary9
Planning for a future free from rebound effects9
Resilient Power: A home-based electricity generation and storage solution for the medically vulnerable during climate-induced power outages9
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap9
Exploring cultural futures: Dimensions of projectivity as a methodological lens for narrative analysis9
An (in-)just transition? Sociotechnical imaginaries of the "green" hydrogen and steel transition in Bremen, Germany9
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies9
Exploring anticipated futures: Dutch Grassroot Initiatives anticipating futures in the energy transition8
Future scenarios of commercial freight shipping in the Euro-Asian Arctic8
Fashion futuring: Intertwining speculative design, foresight and material culture towards sustainable futures8
Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea8
Desirable futures: Human-nature relationships in urban planning and design8
Desirable futures: Perspectives of Joola fisherwomen in Casamance, Senegal8
Humanity extinction by asteroid impact8
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Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions8
Anticipating the work to be done8
Shaping future perspectives in policy advice under deep, long-term uncertainty. The case of the Dutch Delta Committee8
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok8
Building scenarios for urban mobility in 2030: The combination of cross-impact balance analysis with participatory stakeholder workshops8
Can telework help us to tip into low-carbon passenger transportation?8
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge8
Design anthropological foresighting: Reframing automated futures8
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework8
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler8
Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling8
Probability and desirability of future developments – Results of a large-scale Argumentative Delphi in support of Horizon Europe preparation7
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland7
Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter7
The monstrosity of the search for extraterrestrial life: Preparing for a future discovery7
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 20507
Societal collapse: A literature review7
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Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"7
Cognition and hypocognition: Discursive and simulation-supported decision-making within complex systems7
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Gaps between foresight and policy: The US “Global Trends Report” series case study7
Beyond archetypes: Advancing the knowledge of narrative fiction in future scenarios7
Applying foresight to policy agenda-setting: A successful case in South Korea7
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The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education7
Towards National Systems Level Foresight? Understanding the role and future directions of citizen participation in the production of Finnish national foresight reports7
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Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation6
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Writing styles and modes of engagement with the future6
A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why6
Foresight in action: A longitudinal study based on a 25-year journey in the world of policy-oriented foresight6
Literary futures: Harnessing fiction for futures work6
Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty6
Acceptability of radical consumption policies – Utilising futures consciousness to understand elite preferences6
Caring for technologies, caring for Country6
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation6
Emergent consequences of narrating futures in energy transitions6
Bricolage and informal businesses: Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana6
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Mission accomplished? How food entrepreneurship discursively constructs futures for sustainable food6
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Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism6
Back to the future: Old values for a new (more equal) world6
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey6
Energy futures as societal futures: Co-evolutionary scenarios linking futures of society and decarbonized energy systems in Switzerland 20506
The information catastrophe and space settlement6
Unsustainable health care spending in the USA: How will it end?6
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland6
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Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories6
Scenarios of sustainable fodder production in the conflict-affected Kerio Valley of Kenya6
The circular economy futures in the making: Transformativity and object ontologies in food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants5
Ensuring representativity of scenario sets: The importance of exploring unknown unknowns5
Inner drives: Is the future of marketing communications more sustainable when using backcasting?5
A simulation exercise for incorporating long-term path dependencies in urgent decision-making5
Future ordinaries: Assembling place-based knowledges and literacies in real and imagined harmscapes5
Applying pedagogical theories to understand learning in participatory scenario planning5
The thickening of futures5
Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community5
Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future5
Reinvention paths and reinvention paradox: Strategic change in Western Newfoundland communities5
‘Gluing’ alternative imaginaries of sustainable urban futures: When commoning and design met in the post-socialist neighbourhood of Mănăștur, Romania5
Solar geoengineering: Scenarios of future governance challenges5
Is there a universal limit to technological development? Evidences from astrobiology5
Understanding feminist anticipation through ‘back-talk’: 3 narratives of willful, deviant, and care-full co-design practices5
A future EU overall strategy for agriculture and forest genetic resources management: Finding consensus through policymakers’ participation5
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Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy5
Why shouldn’t we cut the human-biosphere umbilical cord?5
Unpacking the modelling process via sensitivity auditing5
Entrepreneurial foresight: Discovery of future opportunities5
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Shifting the perception of water environment problems by introducing “imaginary future generations”—Evidence from participatory workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam5
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness5
The normative significance of future moral revolutions5
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience5
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future5
The struggle for an alternative future: Anticipatory actions and socio-environmental movements in Alt Empordà (Catalonia)4
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain4
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario4
The evolution of Foresight: What evidence is there in scientific publications?4
Branded activism: Navigating the tension between culture and market in social media4
The application of ecosystem assessments in land use planning: A case study for supporting decisions toward ecosystem protection4
Narratives, expectations, and policy criteria for a democratic and socially engaging energy transition4
The call of nature. Three post-pandemic scenarios about remote working in Milan4
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology4
Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future4
The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia4
Narratives of change: Strategies for inclusivity in shaping socio-technical future visions4
Futures of Outcome‐Based Contracts for industrial equipment: A Disaggregative Delphi study4
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era4
Engaging futures: Scenario visualisation for sustainable urban food sharing4
Are we ready to be wrong? Extended peer community for quality science-advice in uncertainty4
Transdisciplinarity: Synthesis towards a modular approach4
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy4
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence4
Combining biosemiotics and post-normal science to study the formation and adaptation of the identity of modern society4
Transformative territorial assessment of food systems: A post-normal science perspective4
Research is in the air in Valle del Serchio4
The ethics of climate generosity and the “Median Commons”: An experimental future within complexity4
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses4
Paving the pathways towards sustainable future? A critical assessment of STI policy roadmaps as policy instruments for sustainability transitions4
The seeds of tomorrow: Investigating adolescent perception of the future with the Futures Consciousness scale for adolescents4
Alternative futures “in the making”: Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece4
What we owe (to) the present: Normative and practical challenges for strong longtermism4
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene4
Reparative futures4
Collaborative design prototyping in transdisciplinary research: An approach to heterogeneity and unknowns4
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts4
“Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: Why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing4
Feminist urban futures: Envisioning the future of Ukrainian cities through the lens of the displaced community in Valencia (Spain)4
Imagining alternative futures for the Dutch poultry industry4
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice4
The future of biotechnology crime: A parallel Delphi study with non-traditional experts4
Whose future is it anyway? Struggles for just energy futures4
Combining research methods in policy and governance: taking account of bricolage and discerning limits of modelling and simulation4
Wake up all the builders: Fatigue and utopia in Washington Heights4
Risks of space colonization4
The politics of transdisciplinary research on societal transitions4
Delphi-based visual scenarios: An innovative use of generative adversarial networks3
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies3
Designing early warning systems for detecting systemic risk: A case study and discussion3
Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future3
You are not one, you are a thousand: Findings from a future-oriented participatory action research3
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon3
How social practices inform the future as method: Describing personas in an energy transition while engaging with teleoaffectivities3
Reflections on a hypothetical decentralized grassroots deployment solar geoengineering scenario3
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