Centre for Strategic Foresight 15th Anniversary
Futures
Special Issue: AI and Future of Futures * Journal of Futures Studies
AI and Future of FuturesCall for Papers This special issue looks at AI and Futures in light of transformative developments in the fields broadly described as artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, Large Language Models, or expert systems). How will AI help reimagine the practice of Futures? How would it shape the ways in which communities imagine and build Futures? How might Futures evolve in an AI dominated environment? How might this emergence of knowledge shape the body of knowledge? Important Dates: Extended Abstract submission deadline: August 30, 2023. Notification of acceptance for submission to JFS: November 30, 2023. Final paper submission to JFS: February 29, 2024
JFS online
Living Between Myth and Metaphor: New Article by Adam Cowart
Our own adjunct professor Adam Cowart was recently published in the Journal of Futures Studies.
Living Between Myth and Metaphor: Level 4 of Causal Layered Analysis Theorised
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to propose the inclusion of emplotment and what we might call “situating metaphors'' while
UN Global Pulse
Meet UN Global Pulse, the Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab
Future planning: Why we must shift from prediction to foresight
In a complex world, foresight methodologies offer an alternative to prediction. This approach can help map new possibilities to plan for future disruption.