In light of climate change and digitalization, the question of our future(s) is a pressing one for the public. But what can we do? How can we make a difference today for a future that we cannot predict with certainty, but that we must imagine if we are to (re)shape it? The question of possible futures, probable futures, and desirable futures is the intersection of the various perspectives gathered in this book. Our common point of reference has been and continues to be imagining, designing, and negotiating futures. We have asked how we might create specific spaces of negotiation in which desirable futures might be negotiated in the first place, and how these might have come about in the past. Each of the analyses gathered here argues this question from a specific perspective and from a different point of access.
Content:
Preferable Futures: An Introduction // Irina Kaldrack and Rolf F. Nohr
[ 1 ] Designing Probe-ability: Time Machines and Other
Useful Vehicles // Saskia Hebert
[ 2 ] Happily Muddling Through: Potentials and Limits of
Transformative Design Approaches // Wolfgang Jonas
[ 3 ] The Rise of Business Simulations and the Elimination
of Uncertainty // Rolf F. Nohr
[ 4 ] Opening Futures // Irina Kaldrack
Irina Kaldrack / Rolf Nohr (2023): Preferable Futures. Lüneburg: Meson, 122 S., div. Abbildungen. ISBN: 978-3957-96033-7 (open access)