Happy day! Delighted to share our new paper, 'Is co-production a "good" concept? Three responses' has been published in TheFuturesJournal, and available open access: bit.ly/3BE3Wji Liz Richardson Prof Beth Perry #coproduction

This looks like an interesting competition for futures folks - and students - to get into … beacon4sl.com/solutions/imag…

Imagination Infrastructuring no. 002: a Time between Worlds. We're (team Iris and Birch) producing this, and the programme Cassie, @KeriFacer and Gabriella GM have woven together is incredible 😍 come join us! jrf.org.uk/event/imaginat…

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Broska, Lisa Hanna et. al "Extreme events defined", selected by @CSERSJ from  Futures 115 (2020): sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "From cascades to tipping points - our future will be impacted by extreme events, which this paper helps us understand."

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Ziauddin Sardar, The smog of ignorance: Knowledge and wisdom in postnormal times, from Futures (120), 2020, doi.org/10.1016/j.futu…  Chosen by @KeriFacer "Postnormal times require a new kind of wisdom to navigate new kinds of ignorance"

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Mariam Abazeri, Decolonial feminisms and degrowth  sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Futures 136 (2022) Chosen by Jim Dator Uses a decolonial feminist lens to explore the meaning of degrowth in terms that recognise the complexity of capitalism.

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Umar Sheraz, 'Whatever happened to pro-poor foresight? A systematic review' sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Futures 135 (2022) Chosen by Kwamou Eva Feukeu COVID underlined and exacerbated global inequalities - can futures studies help address them?

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Ali Hajizadeh & Dave Valliere, ‘Entrepreneurial foresight: Discovery of future opportunities’, sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Futures 135 (2022) Chosen by @patrickvdduin How valuable is foresight to entrepreneurs in search of future opportunities?

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Keri Facer & Arathi Sriprakash, 'Provincialising Futures Literacy: A caution against codification' doi.org/10.1016/j.futu… Futures 133 (2021) Chosen by Mihaela Ghisa Are there risks in assuming there can be a universal form of Futures Literacy?

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Urueña, S. "Understanding ‘plausibility’" (2019) Futures 111 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Chosen by James Derbyshire Plausibility is an alternative to probability for prioritising scenarios, but what is it?

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Ambrose, A., 'Walking with Energy' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, Futures 117 (2020) Chosen by @rochenko Taking the highly abstract - the futures of energy - & making it tangible in and through present encounters

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Afutu-Kotey, R. L & Gough, K. V., 'Bricolage and informal businesses' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, Futures 135 (2022) Chosen by Kwamou Eva Feukeu How is improvisation & creativity vital for young tech entrepreneurs in the global South?

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Palmer, J. Walsh, A., Batorowicz , B., 'Parallel futures? Indigenous resurgence and the haunting of the settler' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, Futures 141 (2022) Chosen by Jim Dator Mapping the two kinds of futures that emerge in colonialism’s shadow.

Fascinating to see this map by Qiu Zhijie--a cultural archaeologist who calls upon history to sculpt towards the future. So many intriguing things to find: incinerator for colonialism, futile action practice, pipeline of metamorphosis, architect of cultural imagination...

Todays #OpenAccess #HiddenGems Hupkes, T. & Hedman, A. 'Shifting towards non-anthropocentrism: In dialogue with speculative design futures' sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Futures 140 (2022) Chosen by Jim Dator Exploring the meaning of more-than-human entanglements for design futures

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