A futures research outline of a post-modern idea of progress

Malaska, Pentti

doi:10.1016/s0016-3287(00)00069-0

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“…This would mean for instance that family-like formations, not based solely on blood ties but on much larger entities, would start forming. These familylike organisations could also resume the traditional role of production units, lost in the society of material needs and the core family concept [36].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Kurki

Wilenius

2016

Eur J Futures Res

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Modes of organising have an indirect relationship with the new key technologies as enablers of new forms of organisation. The effect is twofold: first the emergent technologies bring more efficiency to traditional organising, while at the same time inspiring ideas about new ways to approach the everyday life of organisations. Secondly, the metaphors and models based on new technology are applied to building new forms of organisational interaction. In this article we argue that the metaphors that are currently beginning to affect organisations on a larger scale are derived from networked communication technology. Pentti Malaska, a Finnish Futures Researcher, based his theory of societal change on the idea that societal forms build upon one another as a succession of needs that remain unfulfilled by the previous stage of development. He presents the next stage as society of intangible needs, where the focus of human activities will move to interaction between people. We present the results of an investigation of two case studies: Finnish IT-consultancy firm Reaktor, and Buurtzorg, a Dutch home care organisation. They both have adopted networked practices that question the traditional command and control management structures, and replace them with self-organisation, social control, and trust. In our research we are focusing especially on how technology affects the way these organisations approach their employees and clients. These empirical findings are reflected against the theory of society of intangible needs for contextualising the results, and drawing out their potential implications for the organisations and working life in the coming decades.

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Kurki

Wilenius

2016

Eur J Futures Res

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“…Epistemological schools of thought in futures studies have been revisited several times (Kuosa 2005; Malaska 2001; Mannermaa 1986, 1991b; Tapio and Hietanen 2002). These studies have mainly dealt with the paradigms of futures studies reflecting, commenting, elaborating, and restructuring earlier views presented by de Jouvenel (1967), Amara (1981), Masini (1993), and Slaughter (1988).…”

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Focused Futures from Finland

Tapio

Heinonen

2018

World Futures Review

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The purpose of this article is to review the futures studies activities performed in Finland, focusing especially on Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC). The activities include research, education as well as societal interaction and networking. The FFRC has proceeded from a small unit of three devoted persons in 1992 to one of the key futures research institutes in Europe with about fifty staff members, hundreds of research and developmental projects, and more than a thousand publications. Although acknowledging the variety of futures studies topics and approaches nourished by the researchers, we conclude that facilitating expert-based and stakeholder-based futures studies processes is the key competence of the FFRC. Hybrid methods are continuously developed, meaning combinations of more specific techniques. A proper mix of tools and approaches to gather, analyze, organize, and interpret data is always searched for. At the end of the article, we present four scenarios of the future of the FFRC jointly made by the staff.

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“…So while consumers are currently experiencing a period of change that may be identified as a late stage of modernity, consumers are also moving into a more fluid, postmodern existence, making the individual (the "you") part of the cultural growth rather than a consequence of it (Malaska, 2001;Yeoman, 2008). However, the place of the individual will also be aligned to the type or range of technology that is owned-and associated social value that is ascribed to it.…”

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Technology, Society, and Visioning The Future of Music Festivals

Robertson¹,

Yeoman²,

Smith³

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Event Management

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Many music festivals fail because the experiences offered do not ensure relevance and meaning to the attendee. Engagement with new and virtual landscapes and with the enhanced sensory feelings and imaginations that technologies can offer may alleviate this. Utilizing a futures frame, this conceptual article contributes to the pursuit of successful future event design by applying a normative visionary methodology—employing trend analysis, scenarios, and science fiction to create prototypes that may assist in the formation of appropriate experience options and opportunities for music festivals of the future. It is proposed that this technique may aid positive social outcomes.

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A futures research outline of a post-modern idea of progress

Cited by 21 publications

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