Futures Studies, Foresight, Futurism, Futurology, Futures Thinking...What Name??? |
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This video demystifies the many terms used and misused to refer to the discipline of Futures ad Foresight. The video is also available (with more details) in article format: https://medium.com/@alessandro.fergnani/futures-studies-foresight-futurism-futurology-futures-thinking-what-name-3b3863ceab8c
Support Alex's videos: https://www.patreon.com/alexfergnani REFERENCES: Sohail Inayatullah's video on what is Futures Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vS9iFHppM&t=1s Definition of Futures Studies by WFSF: https://wfsf.org/about-us/futures-studies Rene Rohrbeck on Foresight: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_differences_between_futurology_future_study_and_foresight Futures Literacy definition by UNESCO: https://en.unesco.org/themes/futures-literacy Institute for the Future's Futures Thinking specialization on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/futures-thinking Bell, W. (1997). Foundations of Futures Studies. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, Volume 1. Sardar, Z. (2010). The Namesake: Futures; futures studies; futurology; futuristic; foresight—What's in a name? Futures, 42(3): 177-184. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001632870900175X CREDITS FOR ICONS (The Noun Project): farias, parkjisun, zidney, Round pixel, Joel Wisneski, indra anis, alvianwijaya, Eucalyp, Joost, Made by Made, Hoeda, Chanaky, David, AomAm, monkik |