Future tense: Exploring dissonance in young people’s images of the future through design futures methods

Angheloiu, Corina; Sheldrick, Leila; Tennant, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2020.102527

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“…Sools (2020), for example, uses an exercise in which participants write letters from the perspective of their own future self to an imagined currentday audience. This particular exercise overlaps with other "objects of investigation" as it illustrated an unequal capacity to imagine the future (see Appadurai, 2004) and the importance of hope and other emotional responses to foresight. Other linguistic approaches focus on the "language of futurity" (Mendieta, 2020:241), maintaining that the "future is constructed by language" (Inayatullah, 1990:134) and therefore implies discursive power relations.…”

Section: Methodological Outlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Miyazaki's uses "the method of hope" (Miyazaki, 2004) and dreams (Miyazaki, 2006) as an entry point to studying knowledge formations and critiques of capitalism. The "capacity to aspire" introduced by Appadurai (2004) similarly involves the delineation of the "horizons of hope and desire" (Appadurai, 2004:75). Even though Appadurai does not explicate a concrete methodological approach, his framing of aspiration in terms of equality justifies a methodological interest in studying how the future is felt in the present.…”

Section: Methodological Outlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Appadurai (2013) suggests regarding the future as a "cultural fact", as something that is actively produced, instead of passively awaited. He distinguishes different practices of futuremaking, such as aspiring, imagining, and anticipating (Appadurai, 2013:286), which he uses to understand the future "not as a technical or neutral space" (Appadurai, 2013:286-287) but as emotionally charged and political in the sense that the "capacity to aspire" (Appadurai, 2004) is not distributed equally. The understanding of futurity in this article therefore disagrees to some extent with John Mbiti's writing on the "African concept of time" (Mbiti, 1990:16 f.), in which he claims that traditional concepts of time in Africa know "virtually no future" (Mbiti, 1990:16, emphasis in original).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Drawing together: making marginal futures visible through collaborative comic creation (CCC)

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Moraa²,

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Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The article introduces collaborative comic creation (CCC) as a methodological tool. The central question it addresses is how marginalised imaginations of futures can be made visible in the context of the planned Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) in Kenya. The question assumes that infrastructure projects such as the LAPSSET corridor inscribe not only particular ways of moving into a landscape but also one specific temporality that marginalises other future-making practices. The paper participates in the ongoing debate about how imagined futures and future-making practices can be appreciated and analysed methodologically. It thus contributes to the literature on geographies of the future by drawing together conceptual insights from anthropology, infrastructure studies, and critical cartography. Based on these different approaches, the paper proposes to regard future-making practices not only in relation to contentious timelines but also in terms of lines made by moving and drawing on landscapes and surfaces. Using a review of existing social foresight methods as a basis, we describe the practical implementation of CCC. Subsequently, the analysis of one collaboratively produced comic illustrates how the method can help to visualise ambivalent and uncertain imaginations of different futures that oppose the unitary vision of modernity produced by dominant infrastructural visions of a single future. We conclude by reflecting on possible ways of developing the method further.

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“…Within the context of various kinds of dissonance (social, sociotechnical, cognitive, emotional, cultural, economic etc. ), an imagining of these epistemological pluralities as possible futures is not novel (Angheloiu et al 2020;Carrillo Ocampo et al 2021), but their application to the problem of algorithmic dissonance certainly is. A few pertinent approaches are reviewed within this section.…”

Section: Resolving the Problem Of Algorithmic Dissonancementioning

confidence: 99%

Resolving the problem of Algorithmic Dissonance: An unconventional solution for a sociotechnical problem

Issar¹

2021

Preprint

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In this paper, I propose the concept of “algorithmic dissonance”, which characterizes the inconsistencies that emerge through the fissures that lie between algorithmic systems that utilize system identities, and sociocultural systems of knowledge that interact with them. A product of human-algorithm interaction, algorithmic dissonance builds upon the concepts of algorithmic discrimination and algorithmic awareness, offering greater clarity towards the comprehension of these sociotechnical entanglements. By employing Du Bois’ concept of “double consciousness” and black feminist theory, I argue that all algorithmic dissonance is racialized. Next, I advocate for the use of speculative methodologies and art for the creation of critically informative sociotechnical imaginaries that might serve a basis for the sociological critique and resolution of algorithmic dissonance. Algorithmic dissonance can be an effective check against structural inequities, and of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with running “algorithm audits”.

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“…There are two forms of operating with phenomena of the past and future: individual and collective (Michaelian & Sutton, 2019). A study of collective perceptions of the future (Angheloiu et al, 2020) aimed at studying youth perceptions of the future showed their homogeneity and overindividualism. The difference between the past and the future is due to the certainty of the past and the openness of the future (Andreoletti, 2020) and to the peculiarities of the phenomenon of selfhood in them (Popa, 2017).…”

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Representations Of Teenagers About School Of The Future

Moskvitina¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Future tense: Exploring dissonance in young people’s images of the future through design futures methods

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Drawing together: making marginal futures visible through collaborative comic creation (CCC)

Drawing together: making marginal futures visible through collaborative comic creation (CCC)

Resolving the problem of Algorithmic Dissonance: An unconventional solution for a sociotechnical problem

Representations Of Teenagers About School Of The Future

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