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Futures Consciousness as Vaccination Against Misplaced Futures
Authors: Heinonen, Sirkka
Editors: Glückler, Johannes; Garschagen, Matthias; Panitz, Robert
Publication year: 2025
Book title : Placing the Future
Series title: Knowledge and Space
First page : 55
Last page: 74
ISBN: 978-3-031-76840-8
eISBN: 978-3-031-76841-5
ISSN: 1877-9220
eISSN: 2543-0580
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5_4
Web address : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5_4
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499535162
How futures can be studied and how to avoid the general pitfalls that people face when they want to study futures? This chapter gives answers to the aforementioned questions by presenting futures studies’ ontological and epistemological premises and stating how to avoid basic challenges and pitfalls that a person wanting to study futures may face. As a proof of concept, four different geospatial scenarios are presented. Each of them represents different kind of possible futures based on which actors utilize geospatial data and how centralized society is. However, presenting only possible scenarios is not the main agenda in developing futures consciousness. Based on the concept of futures resilience, preferable futures need also be presented, one of such visions is called Digital Meanings Society. Here spaces and places are filled with meaningful experience for users.
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