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Table 3 Ingredients of futures

From: The future as aesthetic experience: imagination and engagement in future studies

 

Containing a storyline

Elements of a story-line

Text based

Narrative

with plot, script, protagonist

Symbol

shared representation of value and preferred directions

Object based

Graph

connecting past, present and future (by extrapolation)

Image

the design and staging of an artefact points to desired futures

  1. Source: Van Lente [34]