Future tense: Exploring dissonance in young people's images of the future through design futures methods
Future tense: Exploring dissonance in young people's images of the future through design futures methods
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DOI：
10.1016/j.futures.2020.102527
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
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3
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Tennant, Mike
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Angheloiu, Corina;Sheldrick, Leila;Tennant, Mike
在面对复杂的可持续性挑战时缺乏进展，部分原因是缺乏想象力，而不是意识。培育和呈现多元化的未来选择，以及想象可能让我们到达那里的途径，是弥合这种想象差距的关键过程。设计未来这一新兴领域提供了方法和工具来发展叙事，以及描绘另类未来中产品、服务和体验的有形文物。这些方法建立在长期建立的跨学科研究的基础上，研究人们如何以及为什么会对未来产生想象。本研究旨在通过设计未来的方法探索年轻人对未来（设定在2068年和2038年）的形象。本文介绍了一系列研讨会的成果，在这些研讨会上，70多名年轻人（16-17岁）想象了一系列可供选择的未来，并开发了支持通往这些未来之路的人工制品。结果表明，虽然设计未来方法在发展和质疑集体未来想象方面是有效的，但根植于主导西方想象的同质性和晚期现代性的超个人主义转向的更深层次的挑战仍然存在。
The lack of progress in the face of complex sustainability challenges has in part been attributed to a lack of imagination, rather than awareness. Nurturing and surfacing pluralistic alternative futures, as well imagining the pathways that might get us there, are key processes in bridging this imagination gap. The emerging field of design futures provides methods and tools to develop narratives as well as tangible artefacts depicting products, services and experiences set within alternative futures. These methods build on long-established interdisciplinary inquiries into how and why people develop images of the futures. The present research aims to explore young people's images of the future (set in 2068 and 2038) through design futures methods. This paper presents the outcomes of a series of workshops in which over 70 young people (aged 16-17) imagined a series of alternative futures and developed artefacts that support the pathways towards these futures. The results reveal that while design futures methods are effective in developing and interrogating collective future imaginaries, deeper challenges rooted in the homogeneity of dominant Western imaginaries and the hyper-individualistic turn of late-modernity remain.