European Journal of Futures Research is affiliated with Institut Futur, Freie Universität Berlin and the World Futures Studies Federation.
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Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:26
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Future of work in 2050: thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Work has been continuously changing throughout history. The most severe changes to work occurred because of the industrial revolutions, and we are living in one of these moments. To allow us to address these c...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:25 -
Strengthening futures-oriented agenda for building innovation ecosystems
This article locates itself at the interface of the innovation ecosystem approach and foresight methodologies. The need for writing this paper emerged from the notion that despite existing common praxis, there...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:24 -
Politicizing the future: on lithium exploration in Portugal
This text explores the meaning of the expression “mined future,” which has been used by local populations who oppose lithium production in Northern Portugal. We argue that the expression encapsulates the exist...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:23 -
Metaverse through the prism of power and addiction: what will happen when the virtual world becomes more attractive than reality?
New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly analyzed in terms of their social impact or adequately regulated by societies. One of the biggest potentially disruptive technologies for the...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:22 -
Mysterious faces of hybridisation: an anticipatory approach for crisis literacy
Our complex world is changing at such a pace that we are struggling to address many of the global challenges ahead of us. As one of its symptoms, hybridisation means that fields, functions, characteristics and...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:21 -
“Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies
“Autonomous weapon systems” (AWS) have been subject to intense discussions for years. Numerous political, academic and legal actors are debating their consequences, with many calling for strict regulation or e...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:20 -
A causal model for creating public value (in institutional voids)—the case of Lesvos
The Greek island of Lesvos is a holiday destination that became the main entry point for forced migrants to Europe during 2015 and 2016. These circumstances of disruptive societal change are used as the basis ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:19 -
Radical Technology Inquirer: a methodology for holistic, transparent and participatory technology foresight
This paper introduces and motivates the Radical Technology Inquirer (RTI) methodology for anticipation of technological breakthroughs and their combined cross-sectoral and social impacts. The primary use of th...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:18 -
Codesign with more-than-humans: toward a meta co-design tool for human-non-human collaborations
What does more-than-human mean? How can we, as humans, understand that our ecology is only one of the many that do exist within the world? Furthermore, in which way should we step aside to let all ecological a...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:17 -
The future as aesthetic experience: imagination and engagement in future studies
In this paper, we examine the question how future studies can productively engage with the future by considering how art is engaging. This question is pertinent, as doubts about the future are increasingly urg...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:16 -
Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector
By combining qualitative scenarios and life cycle assessment (LCA), we place the latter in a larger context. This study outlines the importance of the integration of future perspectives into LCA, and also the ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:15 -
A comprehensive review of Hungarian futures studies in light of international journal articles
This article offers an overview of the evolution of Hungarian futures studies via a systematic literature review of articles with at least one Hungarian futurist (co-)author, published in high-ranking internat...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:14 -
Policymaking to support resilience in democratic countries: an examination of Sweden, Israel, and Australia
The term ‘resilience’ has increasingly featured in foreign and security policy discourse, appearing in the 2016 European Union Global Strategy, the 2017 US National Security Strategy, and most recently in the ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:13 -
Stage performances as means for linking sociotechnical imaginaries and projective genres in the discourse around urban air mobility
Sociotechnical imaginaries play a crucial role in the context of urban air mobility. At the beginning of this article, I present the Pop.Up, commonly described as ‘air taxi’, as one such vision. Taking the ana...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:12 -
Medium-term consequences (5 years) of the Covid-19 crisis on work organization and occupational risks: a prospective study
The health crisis linked to Covid-19 has had the effect of strongly increasing the activity of certain trades or, on the contrary, decreasing it to the point of stopping. It has also disrupted the organization...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:11 -
Socio-psychedelic imaginaries: envisioning and building legal psychedelic worlds in the United States
After decades of criminalization, psychedelic substances such as psilocybin and LSD are experiencing their comeback in science and Western culture more broadly. While psychedelic plants and fungi have a long h...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:10 -
Re-discovering Aurelio Peccei’s contribution to Futures Studies
This work aims to enhance the contribution of Aurelio Peccei to Futures Studies and its unaltered relevance in the light of the world’s current scientific issues. Peccei’s contribution in Futures Studies is of...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:9 -
Energizing collaborative industry-academia learning: a present case and future visions
In Industry-Academia Collaborations (IAC) both academic, scientific research results and industrial practitioner findings and experiences are produced. Both types of knowledge should be gathered, codified, and...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:8 -
(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal
Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies are gaining visibility and support. Decision-makers are defending the extension of large infrastructures that are low greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, as a way...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:7 -
Politicization of intergenerational justice: how youth actors translate sustainable futures
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:6 -
Chain and silk: alternative futures of blockchain governance in Kyrgyzstan
Few technologies have been mired in hype more than blockchain, which is the underlying peer-to-peer network protocol for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Given the technology’s emphasis on purported “immutabl...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:5 -
Young people’s technological images of the future: implications for science and technology education
Modern technology has had and continues to have various impacts on societies and human life in general. While technology in some ways defines the ‘digital age’ of today, discourses of ‘technological progress’ ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:4 -
Technological disruption and democracy in the twenty-first century
In 2019, sociologist Manuel Castells categorically stated that liberal democracy has exhausted its historical trajectory and, quoting some verses by Octavio Paz, expressed: “Not what it could have been:/it is ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:3 -
Life in the hole: practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence
Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have been slow, and the climate crisis is intensifying, it is incr...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:2 -
Foresight: a new approach based on the Z-number cognitive map
Foresight has recently emerged as one of the most attractive and practical fields of study, while being used to draw up a preferable future and formulate appropriate strategies for achieving predetermined goal...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:1 -
Futures literacy in the loop
This article proposes a functional historicist explanation to explicate the core ideas and underlying logic embedded in the futures literacy concept.
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:17 -
Data-driven smart eco-cities and sustainable integrated districts: A best-evidence synthesis approach to an extensive literature review
As materializations of trends toward developing and implementing urban socio-technical and enviro-economic experiments for transition, eco-cities have recently received strong government and institutional supp...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:16 -
Conceptualization of a new generation of smart energy systems and the transition toward them using anticipatory systems
Emerging energy systems are inherently different from their conventional counter-parts. To address all issues of these systems, comprehensive approaches of transdisciplinary and post-normal sciences are needed...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:15 -
Five transition pathways to renewable energy futures—scenarios from a Delphi study on key drivers and policy options
At many levels of society—in regions, corporations, and among citizens—awareness is increasing, and actions towards more sustainable energy are being taken. The key drivers of this transition have been climate...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:14 -
The underlying components of data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: a case study approach to an applied theoretical framework
The increased pressure on cities has led to a stronger need to build sustainable cities that can last. Planning sustainable cities of the future, educated by the lessons of the past and anticipating the challe...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:13 -
The future of polarisation in Europe: relative cosmopolitanism and democracy
One of the central features of our societies is an increasing polarisation between communitarian and cosmopolitan positions. The theoretically sound and differentiated concepts are increasingly being escalated...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:12 -
Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for loss of electricity/industry compared to artificial general intelligence safety
Extreme solar storms, high-altitude electromagnetic pulses, and coordinated cyber attacks could disrupt regional/global electricity. Since electricity basically drives industry, industrial civilization could c...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:11 -
Emergent technologies, divergent frames: differences in regulator vs. developer views on innovation
Technology innovation is inherently uncertain. The risk–benefit divide for such innovation is a classical debate within scholarly literature and is often framed on a monetary scale where innovation approval is...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:10 -
Anticipatory governance for newcomers: lessons learned from the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, and Korea
Anticipatory governance (AG) is defined as a “system of systems” that employs foresight to create future plans and execute relevant actions. Recently, various frameworks of AG have been introduced, but there i...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:9 -
Limits and benefits of participatory agenda setting for research and innovation
Current governance of science, technology and innovation (STI) faces tough challenges to meet demands arising from complex issues such as societal challenges or targets, e.g. the United Nations’ Sustainable De...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:8 -
Sociotechnical imaginaries of a secure future
The article examines the increasingly important role played by technology in the domain of public security in Germany, illustrating its effects on social life. In order to illuminate developments that govern t...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:7 -
Evidence-based narratives in European research programming
The article introduces and exemplifies the approach of evidence-based narratives (EBN). The methodology is a product of co-design between policy-making and science, generating robust intelligence for evidence-...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:6 -
Democratising utopian thought in participatory agenda setting
Engaging non-experts in matters of science and technology has been increasingly stressed in both rhetoric and action during the past decades. Under the call for moving participation upstream, agenda setting pr...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:5 -
Futures of area-based initiatives in German education: results from a quantitative Delphi survey
To support schools, improve learning outcomes, create innovative learning opportunities, and reduce social disadvantage, many countries have introduced policies to mandate or incentivize educational networks i...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:4 -
The social issues of smart home: a review of four European cities’ experiences
The urban industrialization trend and the increasing urban population have posed global and local concerns related to urban management. Today, scientists introduce the “smart city” concept, among many others. ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:3 -
Participatory foresight and reflexive innovation: setting policy goals and developing strategies in a bottom-up, mission-oriented, sustainable way
The urgency of current social challenges is driving new approaches to framing and funding research, development, and innovation. The “mission-oriented” approach framing the EU’s New Horizons funding program is...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:2 -
Development of regional foresight studies between 2000 and 2019: an overview and co-citation analysis
Regional foresight is one of the regional planning approaches that increase the ability to deal with uncertainty and changes. This study aims to provide an overview of regional foresight studies and domain map...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2021 9:1 -
The creation of inclusive governance infrastructures through participatory agenda-setting
Though a stronger orientation of research and innovation with a focus on societal needs, demands, and preferences has recently become the main argument under the header of responsible research and innovation, ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:10 -
Post-normal times: re-thinking the futures of the EU-Africa relationship
The nature of the relationship between the European Union (EU) and Africa is in permanent evolution. Historically, the EU mostly dominated the relationship while Africa developed adaptive/reactive strategies. ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:9 -
Development of a circular economy and evolution of working conditions and occupational risks—a strategic foresight study
The circular economy can be defined as an economic system of exchange and production intended to increase the efficiency of the use of resources at all stages of products’ life cycle (including goods and servi...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:8 -
Participatory research for sustainable agriculture: the case of the Italian agroecological rice network
Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous ext...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:7 -
Participatory agenda setting as a process — of people, ambassadors and translation: a case study of participatory agenda setting in rural areas
This paper presents a case study of a participatory agenda setting process in rural areas, with the aim of establishing at which points participation was achieved and via which channels and processes the resul...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:6 -
Science-society dialogue from the start: Participatory research agenda-setting by Science Cafés
This empirical paper presents a case of a participatory agenda-setting exercise for green care services in Hungary. Science Cafés were utilised as a participatory agenda-setting tool within the framework of th...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:5 -
One step ahead? The use of foresight by Czech and Slovak non-governmental organizations
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are generally recognized as important actors in societies, fulfilling diverse sets of roles. Given the nature of their work and the complexity of the fast-changing context...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2020 8:4
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