Journal of Futures Studies

adaptation and #crossparadigmatic learning. #futuresstudies #futuresdesign #designfutures #futuresliteracy #futuresthinking @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

and #futuresoriented perspectives into the field, though much of the discussion remains situated within Western contexts. This article offers an attempt to situate that integration within #designeducation in China, and reflects on how service design education might evolve through contextual

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... What role #speculativedesign play in enhancing #servicedesign scholarship? Join this exploration into #educationdesign in #China with Zijun Lin, Beatrice Villari, and Ming Yan! See how they are increasingly exploring how to explicitly integrate #systemic, #critical,

#futuresliteracy #designfutures @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

embraces diverse co-speculative #processes to broaden ideas, incorporates stakeholder voices, and promotes active #collaboration. And see how #Designeducation supports developing competences for power-aware, critical, and #reflective #engagement through #transdisciplinary learning. #futuresstudies

Corelia Baibarac Duignan, Sabine Wildevuur, Mascha van der Voort! Understand and engage with their discussion, showing how #Transdisciplinarity integrates #academic and non-academic #knowledge across #stakeholders to develop deeper understanding beyond predetermined solutions, how #Futuresthinking

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can a Responsible #Futuring approach help learners deal with #controversial or #complex #futures? What key competencies can be developed the framework of Shaping Responsible #Futures? Find out with Julieta Matos Castaño, Cristina Zaga, Klaasjan Visscher,

visual moodboard, and see how they can function seamlessly with classic #futuresmethods such as #causallayeredanalysis, #scenarioanalysis, #speculativedesign and #designprototyping. @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

visualize the intersections of #design, #futures, and #innovation? Take the trip into this exciting territory with Silvia Torri, Victoria Rodriguez Schon, Manuela Celi! Find out how #metadesign provides the framework connecting #designthinking and #futuresdesign, and commonly represented with a

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... Can the exploratory value in #moodboards enable #designers to develop #futuresoriented creative and analytical skills by codifying values and behaviours? Can moodboards enhance #designeducation and incorporate #futuresstudies and #futuresliteracy to better map and

what ways do these tools enable students to visualize and argue for more #equitable and #sociallyresponsible futures through #design? @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

#designers to produce #visions of positive #futures in the #Anthropocene is key to answering the main question: What challenges and limitations do students encounter when integrating #futuresperspectives into their #visualcommunication practices, and how can #educators best support them? And in

at several university's in #Australia, utilizing Johan Galtung's Double Variable Method to help students build and identify #scenarios, engage in #futuresprototyping, #backcasting, #timescapes, 5-square Futuring, #pendulumfuturing, and identify #trends and #drivers. See how the importance of

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... What #innovations to #educationdesign can help to better incorporate #futuresthinking and #futuresliteracy into #visual #communications & #computerscience curriculum? Find out in this engaging piece by Clare M. Cooper! Join her as she explores her teaching experiences

futurescapes help to create more #inclusive, #sustainable, and resilient #cities which are better enabled to address current and #future #geopolitical, #social, and #environmental issues? #designeducation @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Yuemei Ma. Ask how #futuresstudies and #futuresdesign can inform and transform the practices of architectural and #designpractices, and how students and #educators can utilize #visualizations, #simulations, and #digitaltools to communicate and experiment with #futures #scenarios. Can architectural

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #futuresliteracy shape and enhance the work of #architects and #designers, and can it help us understand the relationship between #futurescapes, #utopias, #architecture, and #spatialdesign? Join the discussion on this great topic with authors Anna Barbara and

#mindsets within #designprocesses and help people learn to embrace otherness? This is a great addition to the overall field of #futuresstudies, with many visual elements demonstrating how the process can useful and replicated. @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Lea Holst Laursen! Take a look at key questions and take time to ask key questions and engage directly with the authors, such as: How can #designeducation and #futures ensure that students recognize the importance of welcoming otherness? Can practical #methods foster welcoming otherness and changing

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... Can #designthinking help you think like a fish? 🐟 Can the journey between a self-centered focus towards a focus on otherness be assisted by #designfuturing and #futuresthinking? Find out in this excellent article by Rike Neuhoff, Luca Simeone, Andy Peruccon, and

dominant views of creativity as either “fluffy” or merely an #innovation competence for the market, and instead recognize it as a serious #existential capability related to #wellbeing in an AI-driven world of work? @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social

text:As #futuresthinking reduces #future-related anxiety and strengthens #agency, why is it still treated as marginal rather than essential in #educationfutures and working life– especially in an AI-shaped labour market? As #imagination shapes identity and meaning, what would it take to move beyond

this amazing article by kirstenbonde.bsky.social Explore the opportunity to connect #futuresliteracy and #life-centered #design to current debates about AI, work, and #humanvalue, without reducing them to questions of skills or productivity alone. Seek answers to key questions emerging from the

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... With the current acceleration of #AI, what new forms of #uncertainty, #identity #disruption, and challenges to personal #agency are presented by #AIdrivenchange, which is now intensifying in #education and the #labourmarket? Come explore these and other questions in

engage with #uncertainty. This shift in #teaching moves beyond transmitting established #knowledge to helping students critically examine assumptions and actively construct #alternativefutures. #designforesight @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

relationship between #futuresstudies and #futuresdesign. Come explore with them the fascinating #possibilities of merging #futuresthinking and #designthinking in #educationsystems, to create #futures where educational thinking has shifted towards #design pedagogy and teaching skills to better

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 ...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... The latest issue of Journal of Futures Studies is here!! In this special issue guest-edited by ZhiYong Fu, Anna Barbara, and Peter Scupelli, they explore topics in the #future of #futureshinking in #Designeducation, in order to facilitate the mutually beneficial

quest to prepare themselves for and to find meaningful family-sustaining #work. #learninganalytics #futuresstudies #futuresliteracy #futuresofhighereducation #futuresofwork #dataprivacy #dataliteracy @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

depending on whether the needs of the #market, the employer, or the individual are amplified. See how #futuresmethods such as the #FuturesWheel and #CausalLayeredAnalysis can create and analyze three possible #scenarios for how the use of #data and #analytics could help or harm individuals in their

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...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #dataenabled predictions and recommendations improve #learningoutcomes and strengthen connections between #education and #workforce development? Find out in this excellent essay by Joann Kozyrev. Explore how #emergent and multiple #futures remain possible