Social imaginaries and Big History: Towards a new planetary consciousness?

Patomäki, Heikki; Steger, Manfred B.

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2010.08.004

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“…This study aims to do this by testing the interplay between design methods such as speculative design and foresight methods such as scenario explorations, in the context of the Multi-Level Perspective systems change framework. A series of preliminary workshops designed and facilitated by the authors suggest an opportunity for extended research in the role of design methods for creating future imaginaries (Patomäki & Steger, 2010) and backcasting present actions.…”

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Future Tense: Alternative Futures as a Design Method for Sustainability Transitions

2017

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Abstract:The limits of the modern lifestyle have been well established. What comes next? Design lacks a collective vision, or set of aspirational futures, to work towards. Increasing evidence suggests the transition towards a sustainable society must consist of sustainable lifestyles, designed and owned by individual people and communities. This research builds upon a set of lifestyle scenarios set in the year 2050, derived from the SPREAD 2050 and EUInnovatE projects, in order to explore the use of speculative methods to enable designers and future citizen-designers to reflect upon their practices and enact more radical change. The authors developed design workshops to examine the potential of speculative design applied in practice as a tool for systems change. The results have shown promise as a method for influencing a change in mindset amongst designers, and suggest opportunities for future research investigating how artefacts of change can create pathways towards a sustainable society.

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Future Tense: Alternative Futures as a Design Method for Sustainability Transitions

2017

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“…This study aims to do this by bringing together design methods such as speculative design and foresight methods such as scenario explorations in order to cultivate prospective thinking that can hold multiple alternative lenses, or future worlds. A series of preliminary workshops designed and facilitated by the authors (Angheloiu, Chaudhuri & Sheldrick 2017) suggest an opportunity for extended research in the role of design methods for creating future imaginaries (Patomäki & Steger 2010) and backcasting present actions.…”

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Future Tense: Harnessing Design Futures Methods to Facilitate Young People’s Exploration of Transformative Change for Sustainability

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World Futures Review

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The research starts from the premise that as the world is changing rapidly and in nonlinear ways, we are educating future practitioners for jobs and contexts that don’t yet exist. They instead need to be equipped to work for and with uncertainty to be able to grapple with the scale and pace of emergent change. The fields of design and futures studies bring significant insights to this challenge, including an array of methods, tools, and frameworks for prospective and systemic explorations of alternative futures. The emerging field of design futures can be framed as ways to develop and deploy prompts, artifacts, and narratives to critically interrogate tomorrow’s societal debates today; as such, it is intentional from the outset in its pursuit of preferable futures and therefore social and environmental justice. The process of imagining the future is an active, values-laden social practice, which requires a layered approach to a methodology to surface and challenge dominant patterns—making it an ideal approach for training the young people who will shape our future. This article reports on the design and delivery of participatory workshops that employ design futures methods to facilitate the exploration of transformative change for sustainability. These workshops were conducted with young people aged sixteen to seventeen to equip them to develop and explore alternative futures. The results suggest that design futures methods can facilitate participants from non-design backgrounds to develop alternative futures and artifacts that might sit within them. It was found that developing a sense of ownership was key to enabling participants to effectively reflect on alternative futures and their implications. Finally, the study highlights the potential for these methods to inform both design and sustainability pedagogy.

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“…This mobilization occurs in terms of frames, categories, metaphors and myths that have been sedimented into the deep structures of national and religious imaginaries (cf. Patomäki and Steger 2010), from where they are again being drawn, also out of anxiety and for various strategic purposes.…”

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Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy

Patomäki

2017

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Have we arrived at a New World Disorder? Well, the UK is no longer a stabilizing power in Europe, and the US has stopped functioning as a stabilizer in the global system. Behind these structural changes we fi nd the manifold failures of neoliberal economics. In the footsteps of Keynes, Polanyi and Habermas, Heikki Patomäki uncovers the causes and dynamics of these complex crises, and also identifi es the keys of a progressive project that can save the legacy of enlightenment and democratic politics in Europe, as well as the world system, and help to fi nd the way back to social progress.-László Andor, Former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion List of figures viii List of tables ix Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction: the world falling apart 1 2 Brexit and the causes of European disintegration 16 3 EU, Russia and the conflict in Ukraine 41 4 Trumponomics and the logic of global disintegration 70 5 Piketty's inequality r > g: the key to understanding and overcoming the dynamics of disintegration 94 6 Conclusion: holoreflexivity and the shape of things to come 113 Index 135 Contents 1.1 The self-reinforcing negative dynamics of the neoliberal world economy 2.1 Politico-economic developments, social-psychological mechanisms and cognitive schemes 2.2 The rising popularity of UKIP 3.1 Ukraine's GDP per capita and growth rate 3.2 Ukraine's current account balance and foreign reserves 3.3 A two-phase causal mechanism leading to securitization and other-blaming 4.1 Income inequality: top 1 percent and bottom 90 percent average pre-tax incomes, 1949-2014 4.2 Wealth inequality: top 1 percent and bottom 90 percent average wealth, 1949-2014 4.3 Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) 4.4 Manufacturing employees and real output 5.1 World GDP per capita growth rates 5.2 High-income countries' GDP per capita growth rates Social Sciences, Markus served as my full-time research assistant from April to June 2017. Thank you, Markus! In addition, all the chapters have been language-and copy-edited in a very professional and efficient manner by Kenneth Quek. As always, it goes without saying that I am responsible for all the remaining errors and for what may turn out as non-adequate truth-judgements (as we critical realists know, the preface paradox is no paradox at all, as an author may be quite sure that her book will be revealed to contain errors but be quite unable to say what they are just now).

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Social imaginaries and Big History: Towards a new planetary consciousness?

Cited by 45 publications

References 6 publications

Future Tense: Alternative Futures as a Design Method for Sustainability Transitions

Future Tense: Alternative Futures as a Design Method for Sustainability Transitions

Future Tense: Harnessing Design Futures Methods to Facilitate Young People’s Exploration of Transformative Change for Sustainability

Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy

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