Browning the Future | The Juggernaut With the rise of South Asian sci-fi, what might South Asian futurism look like?

“#SouthAsian #Futurism shares some common ground with #Afrofuturism … … people must stake their claim to a future that otherwise #WhiteWashes them.”

@bethejuggernaut



#scifi #FutureOfHumanity #FuturesThinking #FuturesScience #DesignFutures #EdChat

A close reading of:

Bodinet (2016).
Pedagogies of the futures: Shifting the educational paradigms

#edchat #AcademicChatter #femedtech #UnboundEq #designjustice #futuresscience #inclusion #futureoflearning #futureofwork

“Every #decision depends on a #forecast of its #consequences, every organization needs to make forecasts.”

#business #leadership #decisionmaking #forecasting #futuresscience #disruption #innovation #thinking #outsideview

“if the process can legitimize marginalized definitions of what is desirable in the #future and what counts as #progress and what counts as #growth , for me that is a very important piece”

#designjustice #futuresscience #foresight #futures #teams #inclusion

“ #Storytelling is extensively used in #futurestudies because the #future doesn't exist yet so you build stories about those #possibilities to engage people to think about it.”

#futuresscience #foresight #inclusion #designjustice

Pupul Bisht Wants to Decolonize the Future of Design Using Storytelling - Core77 "When it comes to design methods, 'one size fits all' is the thinking that colonizes our work—that's what we need to challenge."

#Decolonising the #future with #design and #storytelling

@BishtPupul



#designjustice #disruption #innovation #inclusion #creativity #care #change #empower #futuresscience #foresight #facilitation #edchat

To “... [2] speak out for the interests of as-yet-voiceless future generations...[and to] [3] identify possibilities AND bring them to the attention of people”
— Bell (2012)

#advocate #activist
#foresight #futuresscience #influence #communityleaders #arts #humanitiesmatters

So what’s the problem?

(1) too much conventional, pragmatic, government-funded #research into #STEM & econ questions

(2) ineffective in challenging civilisational challenges

#futuresstudies #futuresscience #appliedscience #publicgood #wickedproblems #futureofhumanity

“ #futurists very rarely have the decision making authority to enact the actions required to realise a preferred image of the future.”

How do we get “Back to Futures”?

#futuresscience #futuresstudies

Other existential threats 2/2
- unregulated information spaces
- #pandemics
- unregulated genomic editing
- automation
- inequality

#dystopia #foresight #futuresscience #futuresstudies #globalchallenges #ethicalleadership

#foresight “is not widely practiced by #decisionmakers because when things are going well, they manage without it, and when things are going badly, it is too late to see beyond the ends of their noses”
#Godet #burn
#futureofwork #futuresscience