Journal of Futures Studies

"How does our relationship with the future change when we acknowledge that life is finite, yet our stories and impact can go 'more than death'?" @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

lives and #societies. A New #Perspective: Instead of seeing death as an end to be avoided, how can we integrate the finitude of life into the way we think about and #design our collective #future? #futuresstudies #futuresdesign #futuresliteracy
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essay by Yasuyuki Hayama and Ammer Harb. Explore key questions for discussion and engagement directly from co-author Yasuyuki Hayama: Beyond the Taboo: Why is "death" still a taboo in our #visions of the future? This essay explores how we can look "beyond death" to find new meaning in our

MORE-THAN-DEATH: A Critical Design Futures Narrative About the Taboo of Death * Journal of Futures Studies This paper introduces More-Than-Death as a critical design futures concept that reconsiders the taboo of death beyond human-centered life exceptionalism. Building on More-Than-Human and Post-humanist ...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #narratives incorporating #designpractice and #criticaldesign #futures help to overcome #taboos about #death, using the 'More-Than-Death' concept for rethinking #sustainability, #mortality, and #coexistence in the #PostAnthropocene era? Find out in this great

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connections between #critical pedagogy and critical #futuresstudies, see how they aim to chart a path through which #design #futures education can potentially grapple with the #political and often contentious aspects of future-making. #designeducation #futuresliteracy #designthinking

Roy Bendor, Bregje F. Van Eekelen! Consider three key meanings which emerge from this examination: critical indications of importance, style of reasoning, and attentiveness to #power – and understand the argument that the latter is most suitable for seeding hashtag#transformative #change. By drawing

Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Critical Pedagogy for Design Futures Education * Journal of Futures Studies This essay considers the meaning of criticality in design futures education. It identifies three such meanings – criticality as an indication of importance, as a style of reasoning, and as attentivene...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #educators improve teaching for #transformation in the #future? What lessons can a critical approach to #pedagogy can be learned in the pursuit of improving #education curriculum for #designfutures? Come explore in this wonderful essay by Laura Barendregt,

adaptation and #crossparadigmatic learning. #futuresstudies #futuresdesign #designfutures #futuresliteracy #futuresthinking @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

and #futuresoriented perspectives into the field, though much of the discussion remains situated within Western contexts. This article offers an attempt to situate that integration within #designeducation in China, and reflects on how service design education might evolve through contextual

Integrating Speculative and Systemic Perspectives into Service Design Education in the Chinese Context * Journal of Futures Studies Service design education needs to evolve to equip students for complex and uncertain futures. In China, however, it remains dominated by linear, solution-oriented, and short-term mindsets, limiting th...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... What role #speculativedesign play in enhancing #servicedesign scholarship? Join this exploration into #educationdesign in #China with Zijun Lin, Beatrice Villari, and Ming Yan! See how they are increasingly exploring how to explicitly integrate #systemic, #critical,

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embraces diverse co-speculative #processes to broaden ideas, incorporates stakeholder voices, and promotes active #collaboration. And see how #Designeducation supports developing competences for power-aware, critical, and #reflective #engagement through #transdisciplinary learning. #futuresstudies

Corelia Baibarac Duignan, Sabine Wildevuur, Mascha van der Voort! Understand and engage with their discussion, showing how #Transdisciplinarity integrates #academic and non-academic #knowledge across #stakeholders to develop deeper understanding beyond predetermined solutions, how #Futuresthinking

A Responsible Futuring Approach to Create Spaces of Transdisciplinary Co-speculation * Journal of Futures Studies This essay elaborates on how design research education can play a pivotal role in fostering futures-oriented competences through the provision of transdisciplinary spaces of co-speculation in learning...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can a Responsible #Futuring approach help learners deal with #controversial or #complex #futures? What key competencies can be developed the framework of Shaping Responsible #Futures? Find out with Julieta Matos Castaño, Cristina Zaga, Klaasjan Visscher,

visual moodboard, and see how they can function seamlessly with classic #futuresmethods such as #causallayeredanalysis, #scenarioanalysis, #speculativedesign and #designprototyping. @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

visualize the intersections of #design, #futures, and #innovation? Take the trip into this exciting territory with Silvia Torri, Victoria Rodriguez Schon, Manuela Celi! Find out how #metadesign provides the framework connecting #designthinking and #futuresdesign, and commonly represented with a

Enhancing Futures Driven Design Education Through Moodboards * Journal of Futures Studies This manuscript addresses the creation of a set of guidelines for the composition of moodboards as outputs that visualize the research findings from a Metadesign process. Developed through a company-d...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... Can the exploratory value in #moodboards enable #designers to develop #futuresoriented creative and analytical skills by codifying values and behaviours? Can moodboards enhance #designeducation and incorporate #futuresstudies and #futuresliteracy to better map and

what ways do these tools enable students to visualize and argue for more #equitable and #sociallyresponsible futures through #design? @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

#designers to produce #visions of positive #futures in the #Anthropocene is key to answering the main question: What challenges and limitations do students encounter when integrating #futuresperspectives into their #visualcommunication practices, and how can #educators best support them? And in

at several university's in #Australia, utilizing Johan Galtung's Double Variable Method to help students build and identify #scenarios, engage in #futuresprototyping, #backcasting, #timescapes, 5-square Futuring, #pendulumfuturing, and identify #trends and #drivers. See how the importance of

Futuring Visual Communication Pedagogy: Two Visual Thinking Tools for Applied Design Futuring * Journal of Futures Studies In this article the author describes two novel design futuring pedagogical tools that were included in the review of a foundational undergraduate Design Computing unit. Using two cycles of Participato...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... What #innovations to #educationdesign can help to better incorporate #futuresthinking and #futuresliteracy into #visual #communications & #computerscience curriculum? Find out in this engaging piece by Clare M. Cooper! Join her as she explores her teaching experiences

futurescapes help to create more #inclusive, #sustainable, and resilient #cities which are better enabled to address current and #future #geopolitical, #social, and #environmental issues? #designeducation @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Yuemei Ma. Ask how #futuresstudies and #futuresdesign can inform and transform the practices of architectural and #designpractices, and how students and #educators can utilize #visualizations, #simulations, and #digitaltools to communicate and experiment with #futures #scenarios. Can architectural

From Utopia to Futurescapes: Futures Literacy for Next Generations of Architects and Designers * Journal of Futures Studies The future is the first fundamental projection for architecture. Architecture has a duration in time, which often goes beyond the very life of its designer, so it is in itself a time machine, which mu...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #futuresliteracy shape and enhance the work of #architects and #designers, and can it help us understand the relationship between #futurescapes, #utopias, #architecture, and #spatialdesign? Join the discussion on this great topic with authors Anna Barbara and

#mindsets within #designprocesses and help people learn to embrace otherness? This is a great addition to the overall field of #futuresstudies, with many visual elements demonstrating how the process can useful and replicated. @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Lea Holst Laursen! Take a look at key questions and take time to ask key questions and engage directly with the authors, such as: How can #designeducation and #futures ensure that students recognize the importance of welcoming otherness? Can practical #methods foster welcoming otherness and changing

How Can I Think Like a Fish If I Am Not a Fish? Considerations On How Journeying Between Self-Centeredness and Otherness Is Vital for Design Futuring * Journal of Futures Studies This article reflects on a series of experiments conducted within a Danish master’s program geared towards design futuring. These experiments explored designerly ways to welcome otherness, i.e., diver...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... Can #designthinking help you think like a fish? 🐟 Can the journey between a self-centered focus towards a focus on otherness be assisted by #designfuturing and #futuresthinking? Find out in this excellent article by Rike Neuhoff, Luca Simeone, Andy Peruccon, and

dominant views of creativity as either “fluffy” or merely an #innovation competence for the market, and instead recognize it as a serious #existential capability related to #wellbeing in an AI-driven world of work? @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social

text:As #futuresthinking reduces #future-related anxiety and strengthens #agency, why is it still treated as marginal rather than essential in #educationfutures and working life– especially in an AI-shaped labour market? As #imagination shapes identity and meaning, what would it take to move beyond