From Utopia to Futurescapes: Futures Literacy for Next Generations of Architects and Designers * Journal of Futures Studies
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From Utopia to Futurescapes: Futures Literacy for Next Generations of Architects and Designers * Journal of Futures Studies
Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
While we know that our imaginations shape our sociocultural experience through the creation of worlds, modernity thrives by throwing tight constraints around it, degenerating our ability and capacity to imagine radically new futures into being. This ontological war against possibility is ‘defuturing’ — there are less futures available to us; or put... See more