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 2024 12:10
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Development tendencies and turning points of futures studies
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) held its XXV World Conference in Paris. The conference provided a venue for reviewing earlier developments and reevaluating prospec...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:9 -
Options for making responsive future strategy to foster sustainability transitions in the German agri-food sector: a Delphi-based approach
In response to pressing global challenges, sustainability transitions research has emerged as an interdisciplinary field focused on fundamental changes, necessitating novel approaches for strategy-making from ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:8 -
Dyadic risk mechanisms–a nomenclature for 36 proto-cascading effects determining humanity’s future
Re-reading the risk literature, I sketch a novel nomenclature for 36 dyadic risk interactions that constitute the prototypes of what eventually become cascading effects. This analysis demonstrates where cascad...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:7 -
Trend mining with Orange – using topic modeling in futures research with the example of urban mobility
Today, assumptions about probable future developments (at least as far as they make use of quantifiable scientific methods and are not pure speculation) are generally based on data from the past. An interestin...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:6 -
Farmers’ futures: an application of the Delphi method in the context of Finnish agriculture
In Finland, agriculture is practiced in variable growing conditions that are further challenged by climate change and under external pressure caused by international competition, changing consumer preferences ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:5 -
Social studies teacher competencies in 2050: an e-Delphi study
With the input of 16 experts from a variety of social studies disciplines—including anthropology, art, communication, curriculum and instruction, economics, geography, history, law, measurement and assessment,...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:4 -
Futures participation as anticipatory practice — what do futures workshops do?
Futures workshop is a participatory futures research method for producing views on futures and facilitating transformation and empowerment. Since different workshop methods are generally considered to have man...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:3 -
A hybrid foresight study of the environmental reference laboratory system in Finland: a foresight study for the Government of Finland
This article presents a hybrid foresight study using the Delphi methodology. The study is part of a strategic research project of the Finnish state named “Foresight in Environmental Reference Laboratory Operat...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:2 -
Lives ‘on hold’ in Europe: an explorative review of literature on youth aspirations and futures in situations of migration and mobility
This explorative literature review aims to examine the content and methodologies of recent empirical studies on the aspirations of youth in situations of migration in Europe. The search yielded 30 peer-reviewe...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2024 12:1 -
What’s next in hospital digitization? A Delphi-based scenario study
The digital transformation has induced significant social and economic changes, impacting services of general interest, including healthcare. National healthcare systems serve as crucial pillars of social and ...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:10 -
Futures literacy in collaborative foresight networks: advancing sustainable shipbuilding
Businesses are facing increasing pressure from society and regulators to become more sustainable and do their part to address the climate crisis. These businesses will require continual sustainability innovati...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:9 -
Curtailing political short-termism in legislatures: a trade-off between influence and institutionalization?
Legislatures have recently started to invest in anticipatory governance. Alongside new practices, they have introduced designated future committees and organs that connect MPs to future-regarding visioning and...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:8 -
The Mammoth prophecies: a role-playing game on controversies around a socio-technical innovation and its effects on students’ capacities to think about the future
This article reports on a political game played between November 2021 and February 2022 at a European university in the frame of an elective course open to students from all disciplines. It started from a scen...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:7 -
Ambiguity in utopian XR-games
Utopian images in XR-games are often ambiguous. How can ambiguity be consciously designed in virtual worlds? What are the design principles for game designers? Ambiguity arises from discontinuity and decontext...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:6 -
Using corporate foresight to enhance strategic management practices
The ever-increasing environmental complexity makes strategizing a difficult multidimensional task. In this paper, we conducted a corporate foresight case study in an SME in packaging industry in Iran. The case...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:5 -
Toward computer-supported semi-automated timelines of future events
During a Futures Study, researchers analyze a significant quantity of information dispersed across multiple document databases to gather conjectures about future events, making it challenging for researchers t...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:4 -
Transformation through (re-)politicisation of socio-technical futures: how cultural semiotics can improve transformative vision assessment
The politicisation of the future is gaining attention, especially in research on the impact of emerging technologies on modern societies. This observation has motivated technology assessment (TA) and related r...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:3 -
The determinants of a resilient food system for Finland in the 2020s—three opinion polls for improvements based on a Delphi study among food system experts
Sudden shocks, disturbances, and changes in today’s and the future’s operating environment call for a more resilient food system. COVID-19 and Russia’s latest war in Ukraine have revealed that rapid shocks and...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:2 -
Possible future scenarios of the general health social security system in Colombia for the year 2033
This article formulates possible future scenarios for the Colombian General Health and Social Security System (GHSSS) in 2033 when it reaches its 40th anniversary. The research draws on intuitive logic from th...
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2023 11:1 -
Correction: “Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies
Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2022 10:26 -
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
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