[IxDA Discuss] [IxDA] Futures research education?

[Sunandini Basu]

Hi Will
This is where I came across Futures Research (it's not a new thing; the
article was published in 2003)
http://tinyurl.com/2oluak

as the article cites - "...futures studies is the principled study of the
possible, probable, and preferable future of institutions and societies, and
the steps required to bring about those futures....Rather, futurists tend to
look at futures that are 10 or more years away, examined through the lenses
of demographics, technology, the social sciences, aesthetics, industry,
geopolitics and ecology...Futures work can inform design in a powerful way
by giving designers a playground, a set of methods, provocation and
permission to think as broadly as possible."

Hope this helps,
Soo



On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:59:54, Will Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you amplify your question - what is Futures Research?
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