Everyday futures : A new interdisciplinary area of research

Kuijer, Lenneke and Spurling, Nicola (2017) Everyday futures : A new interdisciplinary area of research. Interactions, 24 (2). pp. 34-37. ISSN 1072-5520

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Abstract

An interdisciplinary group of researchers have formed the Everyday Futures Network in July 2016. An inaugural workshop was held at Lancaster University's Institute for Social Futures. Tim Chatterton and Georgia Newmarch's article examines the diversity of ways of living that coexists at any moment in time between different cultures and social groups. The authors argue that some members of the society, including technology designers and researchers, have more power than others to decide the types of futures that get promoted and prioritized. Daniel Welch, Margit Keller, and Guiliana Mandich point out that all too often future visions such as the circular economy gloss over the changed everyday lives essential to their realization. Maureen Meadows and Matthijs Kouw offer a method for developing multiple visions of a better everyday future, emphasizing plurality and potentially conflicting ideas of the good life.

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Interactions
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© ACM, 2017. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Interactions, 24, 2, (2017) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3041276
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08 Apr 2019 12:45
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