Cross-Pollinating Traditional and Critical Theory to Futures Research and Foresight Research, The Tradition of Dialectic Logic of Enlightenment and “What If” Science Challenges - UTU Research Portal

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Cross-Pollinating Traditional and Critical Theory to Futures Research and Foresight Research, The Tradition of Dialectic Logic of Enlightenment and “What If” Science Challenges

Authors: Kaivo-oja Jari, Ainamo Antti

Publisher: Finland Futures Research Centre

Publishing place: Turku

Publication year: 2023

Journal: Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen blogi

Journal acronym: FFRC blog

Issue: 15.8.2023

Web address : https://ffrc.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/cross-pollinating-traditional-and-critical-theory/

Abstract

Futures research and foresight research have more to gain from cross-pollination between one another than earlier. More specifically, we here propose how and why the most gain from doing so is to integrate two kinds of research, starting from framing in a matrix “critical theory” and “traditional theory”.