Futures

Papers
(The median citation count of Futures is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach123
‘Will the world never be the same?’ Everyday imaginaries of post-corona futures89
Tomorrow let’s all be pangolins! Western affirmation of a relational ontology in thinking and acting for a multi-species future85
Climate-resilient and regenerative futures for Latin America and the Caribbean74
Editorial Board68
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After flight. Visions from London Heathrow64
Anticipating human resilience and vulnerability on the path to 2030: What can we learn from COVID-19?55
Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies54
How universities study the future: A critical view42
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives40
Between continuous presents and disruptive futures: Identifying the ideological backbones of global environmental scenarios40
Narratives of sustainability in digital media: An observatory for digital narratives39
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19?37
Delphi-based future scenarios: A bibliometric analysis of climate change case studies37
New frontiers in local government community engagement: Towards transformative place-based futures36
The future vision(s) of AI health in the Nordics: Comparing the national AI strategies36
How does research and development (R&D) strategy shift by adopting imaginary future generations? – Insights from future design practice in a water engineering company35
Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA35
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Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design34
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans: futures and justice conflicts33
The future of compulsory schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a modified Delphi survey32
Profits over people: The dangers of privatizing space colonization32
The thickening of futures31
Precarity and Beyond: A Reflection on the work of Richard Slaughter27
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Caring for technologies, caring for Country26
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Navigating the transition: Unraveling the EU's different imaginaries for a just future26
Policy design and decision criteria for sustainable water supply from the perspective of “imaginary future generations” - A deliberation experiment with policymakers in a municipality, Japan26
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The interplay of competencies and governance settings in dealing with uncertainty: A comparison of mobility as a service in the Netherlands and Australia25
Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging - The case of Finland25
Provocation: A proactive strategy for anticipation and innovation25
The value produced in lending strategic problems as live cases in futures education25
The transformative potential of artificial intelligence24
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario24
Sustainability and futures, moving beyond "The Natural" and "The Artificial"24
Was Germany’s Lockdown in Spring 2020 Necessary? How Bad Data Quality Can Turn a Simulation Into a Delusion that Shapes the Future24
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools23
Rethinking the brain drain: A framework to analyze the future behavior of complex socio-economic systems23
From the universal to the plural: Imagining, building up and obliterating alternative futures23
'Ancestral future': On consumption, ethics and the Anthropocene23
When opposites attract—Impact of cultural distance and polarised success in the future of economic unions22
The end of selection as a driver of human evolution21
What futures for the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of mountainous inner areas21
From “snowflake generation” to “agents of social change”: Recognizing the voice of Spanish young people in the post-pandemic era20
Blueprint for forever: Securing human far futures with ectogenesis20
The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?20
Dynamic Living Space: Toward a society where people can live anywhere in 205019
Foregrounding citizen imaginaries: Exploring just energy futures through a citizens' assembly in Lebanon19
Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community: Identifying overlaps by mapping typologies19
Forms of participatory futuring for urban sustainability: A systematic review19
Cognitive mechanisms in foresight: A bridge between psychology and futures studies19
Axiological futurism: The systematic study of the future of values18
Dare to imagine. Explorative scenarios for re-shaping human-nature relationships in an inner periphery in the Italian Apennines18
A futures perspective of health, climate change and poverty in the United States18
The future of teaching and learning in the context of emerging artificial intelligence technologies18
What scenario-building characteristics should be used in GenAI prompting?18
“When values are in dispute”: Ethics dialogues to go beyond ethics frameworks?17
Flying cars and boring companies: Interrogating the feasibility of the transport futures of tech executives17
Legitimacy and justifiability of non-state geoengineering17
Augmented futures? Scenarios and implications of augmented reality use in public spaces17
Cross-country comparative analysis and case study of institutions for future generations17
What’s next in the healthcare system? The contribution of digital innovation in achieving patient-centricity17
Chronotopic imaginaries: A narrative approach to the letters from the post-pandemic future16
A shared socio-economic pathway based framework for characterising future emissions of chemicals to the natural environment16
Extending the shared socioeconomic pathways for adaptation planning of blue tourism16
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships16
Types of scenario planning and their effectiveness: A review of reviews16
Coworking in the digital economy: Context, motivations, and outcomes16
Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice16
Peace and reparations in legal drug markets in Colombia15
Understanding the complexities of Building-Integrated Agriculture. Can food shape the future built environment?15
The social imaginaries on governance through data: Q-methodological analysis of data professionals' views in the field of mobility15
From complexity to clarity: Eden3's novel perspective on limits to growth15
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species15
Visioning for cultural industries: CLA inspired scenario method15
Participatory modeling of past, current and future groundwater governance: An experiment in Aousja Ghar El Melh, Tunisia15
Anticipating emerging medical technologies: The start of an international horizon scanning tool for medical devices15
”Your research or my tinkering won’t help”: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic15
Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work15
Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”15
Present-oriented reconciliation and reparative futures in the making – The case of Rodeemos el Diálogo in Colombia15
Science – Post-normal perspectives15
Beyond the ‘Anthropocene’ impasse: The Colonial past and dissenting futures in the era of climate crisis14
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews14
Urban informality and users-led social innovation: Challenges and opportunities for the future human centred city14
Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions14
A meta-network analysis of methodological specifications for system dynamics modelling application in agricultural food systems14
Guiding visions of corporate smart city innovators: Identifying opportunities for participatory futuring14
From profit maximization to social welfare maximization: Reclaiming the purpose of American business education14
Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning14
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“If education is the key, then school is the lock”: Reparative futures thinking beyond the modern school13
Ballet not for everyone: A reply to Szocik13
Future of food: A technology-centered path towards sustainable production in 210013
Creativity: The flawed forge of tomorrows13
Exploring intercultural perspectives of migration futures in a super-diverse city through intercultural participatory futures workshops: The case of Istanbul13
Planning for a future free from rebound effects13
Post-COVID-19 scenarios: A method for moments of crisis13
Using foresight to explore the impacts of flooding in Houston on health, poverty, and equity out to 205012
The future of unmanned combat aerial vehicles: An analysis using the Three Horizons framework12
Realizing 2050 Net-zero in South Korea: From adaptive reduction to proactive response12
Gender-responsive disaster risk reduction strategy at the community level: A qualitative approach to analyze coastal communities in Bangladesh12
Richard Slaughter: Critical Futures and the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies; Evaluation of a selection of Slaughter’s published work12
Hopes over fears: Can democratic deliberation increase positive emotions concerning the future?12
The future of work of academics in the age of Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-art and a research roadmap12
Climate perplexity: Rural changemakers facing the anthropocene12
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together12
Developments and challenges of foresight evaluation: Review of the past 30 years of research12
The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework11
Post-crises (new) normality. Across social practices and speculative fictions11
Exploring urban novel ecosystems: Understandings, insights and recommendations for future research and practice11
Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler11
Time for transition – Temporal structures in energy governance in contemporary Poland11
Engagements with uncertain futures – Analysing survivalist preparedness11
Anticipating the work to be done11
Techno Futurist, sustained inequalities and Eco-utopia: Speculative imaginaries of Business Education in 205011
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Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation11
Working deliberat(iv)ely with(in) wicked problems: The existential, epistemological and ethical nexus of imperfect knowledge11
Institutionalisation of participative and collaborative governance: Case studies of Lithuania 2030 and Finland 203010
Johan Galtung: Reflexivity, creativity, and imagination10
Benefits or concerns of AI: A multistakeholder responsibility10
Reparative futures10
Measuring the future: The youth HDI in Spain10
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology?10
Imagining carbon-neutral futures: Comprehensive narratives through citizen participation10
Is China evolving a new model for civilization?10
Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok10
A priceless gift – Reflections on Richard Slaughter’s influence on working and living with the future10
From narratives to numbers: Spatial downscaling and quantification of future water, food & energy security requirements in the Indus basin10
Postnormal Prometheus: How to anticipate and navigate postnormal times10
Toward resilient urban environments: Transition pathways in nature-based solutions10
Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia10
Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses10
A futurology of the sustainable development process of Hormozgan Province, Iran10
AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems10
Unconditional basic income and a degrowth transition: Adding empirical rigour to radical visions10
On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet9
The human-AI dyad: Navigating the new frontier of entrepreneurial discourse9
Displaced futures or futures in displacement? Anticipations around the proposed High Grand Falls Dam in Kenya9
Just mobility futures: Challenges for e-mobility transitions from a global perspective9
The FutureS of healthcare9
Pleasure addiction via brain-manipulating technologies as a possible contributor to civilizational decline9
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Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present9
Sharpening anticipatory design senses for sustainable ‘scentory’ futures9
Smashing conformity: Hurling the hammer at the machine9
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game9
Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics9
Futures literacy – To belong, participate and act!9
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future9
Future use of natural gas under tightening climate targets9
Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance9
Artificial intelligence in the judiciary: A critical view9
Everyday laboratories: Collective speculation and energy futures9
Coping with uncertainty: Exploring the foresight actions’ role in supporting growth-orientation among Finnish dairy farmers9
Futures for the uncommitted? Translating net-zero to pension savers9
Envisioning ecopolitical futures: Reading climate fiction as political theory9
The long cycle perspective on the emerging bio age9
Influence of social factors and environmental behaviour in the knowledge and opinion about circular economy9
MBA futures: Images from Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories during the COVID-19 pandemic9
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Teaching futures thinking literacy and futures studies in schools8
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada8
“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations8
The need for durable institutions for future generations: Mobilising the citizenry8
Securitising the future: Dystopian migration discourses in Poland and the Czech Republic8
Integrating culture in future speculation: Speculating Chinese wedding futures8
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south8
Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post corona future8
Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks8
Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals8
COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia8
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Exploring futures for the science of global risk8
The dysgenics objection to longtermism8
The use of foresight to anticipate and prioritise innovation system failures: The case of machine learning in broadcasting in South Korea8
Re-thinking the role of exploratory scenarios for adaptive policymaking: An application for land use and transport planning8
Life in the shadows: Young people’s experiences of climate change futures8
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies7
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How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects7
Futures in the present: Unraveling foreclosing and pre-opening desired futures in the local environment with a Bourdieusian perspective7
Cultural story models in making sense of a desired post-corona world7
Young people’s situated capacity to imagine a desired post-pandemic future: A qualitative methodology for assessing futures consciousness7
Brain fingerprinting: A promising future application for predicting mental illness7
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An autoethnography about writing an eco-fiction on the Flemish circular economy7
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Shaping the future: A conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries7
The hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda7
Envisioning inclusive futures: Organizational alternatives beyond the business case approach in the spectrum of utopia and dystopia7
Exploring trends and topics in hybrid intelligence using keyword co-occurrence networks and topic modelling7
Metamodern futures: Prescriptions for metamodern foresight7
Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment7
Plausibility in models and fiction: What integrated assessment modellers can learn from an interaction with climate fiction7
Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response7
Dealing with complex and uncertain futures: Glimpses from transdisciplinary water research7
Engaging futures: Scenario visualisation for sustainable urban food sharing6
The ethical motivation for post-normal science6
The future of aging in smart environments: Four scenarios of the United States in 20506
Solar geoengineering: Scenarios of future governance challenges6
The monstrosity of the search for extraterrestrial life: Preparing for a future discovery6
Energy regime reconfiguration and just transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s comparative experience6
Literary futures: Harnessing fiction for futures work6
Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism6
Towards National Systems Level Foresight? Understanding the role and future directions of citizen participation in the production of Finnish national foresight reports6
A future EU overall strategy for agriculture and forest genetic resources management: Finding consensus through policymakers’ participation6
Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification6
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The ethics of climate generosity and the “Median Commons”: An experimental future within complexity6
Societal collapse: A literature review6
Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans6
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories6
A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why6
Feminist urban futures: Envisioning the future of Ukrainian cities through the lens of the displaced community in Valencia (Spain)6
On the icy slopes of expertise: How a Cold War-era solution to the problem of expert opinion in science might transform the epistemology of simulation6
Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community6
Bricolage and informal businesses: Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana6
Disruptive technologies and future societies: Perspectives and forecasts based on Q-methodology6
Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy6
Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty6
Mobility business models toward a digital tomorrow: Challenges for automotive manufacturers5
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Exploring potential futures: Evaluating the influence of deep uncertainties in urban planning through scenario planning: A case study in Rome, Italy5
Personas in scenario building: Integrating human-centred design methods in foresight5
Strategic scenario building for planning energy resources: The case of Araucania, Chile5
Addressing the challenge of a “common” Future: The French contemporary mobilizations against injustice in face of the ecological and social emergencies5
The middle powers roar: Exploring a minilateral solar geoengineering deployment scenario5
Reflections on a hypothetical decentralized grassroots deployment solar geoengineering scenario5
Sociotechnical transitions in the system for providing beef to human food: Scenarios for cultured meat5
Is happiness possible in a degrowth society?5
Using AI to model future societal instability5
Shitty food-based world-making: Recasting human|microbiome relationships beyond shame and taboo5
Perceptual model for semantic representation of design futures practice cases: Towards the development of a design futures repository5
Consumers anticipating futures beyond the pandemic: A qualitative study5
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making5
Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges5
Pluralizing urban futures: A multicriteria mapping analysis of online taxis in Indonesia5
A forward-looking approach to climate change and the risk of societal collapse5
From the open society to the closed society: Reconsidering Popper on natural and social science5
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots5
Representing posterity: Two challenges5
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