Textile Practices, Gendered Labor, and the Politics of Care in Displacement and Diaspora * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Download PDF Kacper Andruszczak1, Jacopo Battisti2, * 1 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University 2 Istituto Marangoni, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Università degli Studi d...

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Weaving, Worlding and Reimagining Youth Futures in Africa * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Download PDF Samantha Willcocks University of the Sunshine Coast Abstract This paper explores how the ancestral practice of sisal weaving in Luo lands of Kenya can become a regenerative thread...

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From "Women Need Support" to "Everyone Needs Support" * Journal of Futures Studies

Ivana Milojević, Marcia Chen & Sissi Wu On May 28, 2026, the Women Alliance Group (WAG) convened a workshop in Shanghai on gender partnership and futures thinking, held at Sanofi’s venue with support ...

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Sawali Weaving as Decolonial Design Futures Practice * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Download PDF Bea Rodriguez-Fransen Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University, USA Abstract This article explores sawali—traditional Filipino bamboo weaving—as both ...

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The Futures of Money * Journal of Futures Studies

by Sten Rodenborg Positionality and Purpose This essay emerges from deep concern and professional curiosity. Observing the escalating ecological crises, from climate change to biodiversity loss, it be...

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Intergenerational Hope: Detaching Embroidery from the "Tradwife" Phenomenon * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Download PDF Chiara Bottarelli1, Victoria Rodriguez Schon1, Manuela Celi1 * 1Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Abstract This research seeks to propose a framework for recl...

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Stitching Peace: Craft as a Feminist Technology for Inclusive Futures * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Download PDF Adina-Iuliana Deacu1,2* 1Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS), Potsdam, Germany 2Tianmei World Academy, Shanghai, China Abstract In an era of polarization and cultu...

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Weaving Threads of Hope as Feminizing Futures * Journal of Futures Studies

Introduction Download PDF Nur Anisah Abdullah Associate Professor, College of Education, Tamkang University Abstract This editorial introduction frames the Threads of Hope: Ancestral Knowledge and Fem...

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Parliaments and Foresight: Scanning and Reflections on Parliamentary Futures Work * Journal of Futures Studies

There has been significant growth of foresight in parliaments in recent years, highlighted by the World Summits of the Parliamentary Committees of the Future in 2022 and 2023. This paper is a scanning...

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Jose Rizal: Precursor of Futures Thinking in the Philippines * Journal of Futures Studies

Futures thinking was in the minds of historical figures in the Philippines prior to all the current initiatives, conversations, and desk work on it, but without the rigid systematic, methodical, and t...

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Emerging Grand Challenges and Megatrends for the Future of Europe * Journal of Futures Studies

Megatrends are cross-sectional and lasting developments creating grand challenges. This study investigates the interlinkages of 14 megatrends and their consequences using cross-impact and emerging iss...

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Students’ Images of the Future and Their Implications for Curriculum Practices * Journal of Futures Studies

This study examines Ethiopian secondary school students’ images of the future, focusing on their personal, national, and global perspectives. Using a survey research design, data were collected from 4...

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Codes of Tomorrow: Genomic Sequencing Futures in Mexico of 2035 * Journal of Futures Studies

This article explores the future of genomics in Mexico by 2030. It addresses the research questions: what are the potential futures of genomic sequencing in Mexico towards 2035? and what is the impact...

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A Foresight Study into Peru’s Technological Progress Towards 2050 * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Download PDF Billy Francisco Gonzales1,*, Julio César Acosta-Prado2, Carlos Guillermo Hernández-Cenzano1,2, Amparito Gianina Acevedo Flores3, Juvenal Uzi Galindo Ccallocunto3, Jorge Alexis Ram...

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Dialectical Contradictions and African Futures in Coogler’s Black Panther: An Afrofuturist Analysis * Journal of Futures Studies

This paper examines how Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther contributes to Afrofuturist discourse and African cultural futures by engaging with dialectical materialism and the Igbo philosophy of complementar...

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An Instrument of Transformation – Introducing a Creative Futures Pedagogical Framework * Journal of Futures Studies

As a plotline for the future story of our inherited knowledge infrastructures, the Creative Futures Pedagogical Framework is introduced as an organisational architecture that might facilitate Futures ...

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Distributed Knowledge Building and Flows at the International Conference on Design Futures * Journal of Futures Studies

Facing the drastic changes in the current international society, thinking and looking into the future picture is becoming a new starting point and foothold for design innovation. Considering that, in ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Case for Treating Reframing and Imagination as Powerful Life Skills * Journal of Futures Studies

Uncertainty about the future can lead to worry, anxiety, and an inability to function. In a world characterised by increasing uncertainty, these responses represent a serious problem. Imagining differ...

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The Future of Futures Thinking in Design Education * Journal of Futures Studies

This special issue stimulates the conversation between futures studies and design education. Discussions started at the International Conference on Design Futures in 2020 and continue today. Articles ...

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The Data-enabled Futures of Learning and Employment * Journal of Futures Studies

Essay Joann Rishel Kozyrev Vice President, Learning Design and Analytics, Western Governors University, USA Abstract There is great promise that data-enabled predictions and recommendations can improv...

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Menopause Futures * Journal of Futures Studies

Essay Luisa Ilper Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Women in menopause around the world and across cultures suffer from a lack of support during menopause and beyond. This exploratory s...

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Navigating the Maze of Futures Studies - a reflexive outlook * Journal of Futures Studies

Essay Simon Önnered1, *, Valeriy Chichilanov2 1 Department of Innovation Management, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden. 2 Independent Researcher, Bangkok, Thailand. Abstract Emerging as a futu...

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