THE PILLARS OF FUTURES STUDIES

Sohail Inayatullah

MAPPING THE PRESENT AND FUTURE

                    Shared History

                    Environmental Scanning

                    Making sense of the scanning - Futures Triangle

                                         Push, pull, weight

                    Strategic mapping – Futures Landscape

ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE (disturbing the map)

                    Emerging issues Analysis 

                    Futures Wheel – the consequences of issues

                    Sorting by Impact, Actionable

TIMING THE FUTURE - MACROHISTORY AND THE MACROFUTURE 

                    Linear, cyclical, bifurcation, pendulum, spiral

                    Implications of grand thinkers on long term trends

DEEPENING THE FUTURE (unpacking worldviews, paradigms, assumptions)

                    Causal Layered Analysis

                    Ways of Knowing

                    Inner and outer mapping, Four quadrants

CREATING ALTERNATIVES TO THE PRESENT 

Scenarios

                    Single diver

                    Double driver - GBN

                    Content archetype - Stevenson

                    Structure archetype - Dator

                    Probable, preferable, possible, plausible – World Future Society

                    Contradictions - Galtung

                    Disowned and Integrated Futures - Stones

Social Innovation

                    Nuts and Bolts

TRANSFORMING THE PRESENT AND CREATING THE FUTURE

                    Uses of the Future

                    Visioning

                     	Analytic

                     	Questioning

                     	Unconscious

                    Backcasting

                    Anticipatory Action Learning

                    Transcend Conflict resolution method