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Outline of futures studies

{{Short description|Overview of and topical guide to futures studies}}

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to futures studies:

Futures studies (also called futurology) – study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History studies the past, futures studies considers the future. Futurology (colloquially called "futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.

General concepts

Futures techniques

Organizations

=Research centers=

=Academic programs=

  • Australia: Australian Catholic University
  • Australia: Swinburne University of Technology
  • Argentina: Universidad Nacional de La Plata[http://der.jursoc.unlp.edu.ar/ Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales – Universidad Nacional de La Plata]
  • Australia: Curtin University of Technology{{cite web|url=http://handbook.curtin.edu.au/units/13/13629.html|title=Curtin Courses Online Handbook 2005 - Futures and Foresight Research Methodologies 505|access-date=August 17, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050717151332/http://handbook.curtin.edu.au/units/13/13629.html|archive-date=July 17, 2005}}
  • Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast
  • Canada: OCAD University{{cite web |url=http://www.ocad.ca/programs/graduate_studies/mdes_strategic_foresight_innovation/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912011248/http://www.ocad.ca/programs/graduate_studies/mdes_strategic_foresight_innovation/ |title=Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 12, 2012 |access-date=February 21, 2021}}
  • Colombia: Universidad Externado de Colombia{{cite web |url=http://www.uexternado.edu.co/ |title=Home |website=uexternado.edu.co}}
  • Colombia: Uniandes[http://filosofia.uniandes.edu.co/ Universidad de los Andes|Departamento de Filosofía]
  • Czech Republic: Charles University of Prague
  • Finland: Turku School of Economics and Business Administration{{cite web|url=http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu/tva|title=TVA - Tulevaisuudentutkimuksen VerkostoAkatemia|access-date=August 17, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911030721/http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu/tva/|archive-date=September 11, 2007}}
  • France: CNAM{{cite web |url=http://www.cnam.fr/lips/ |title=LIPSOR : Laboratoire d'Investigation en Prospective Stratégie et Organisation |access-date=2011-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917092458/http://www.cnam.fr/lips/ |archive-date=2008-09-17 |url-status=dead}}
  • Hungary: Corvinus University of Budapest{{Cite web |url=http://www.bkae.hu/jkut/ |title=Tanszék: Jövőkutatás Tanszék |access-date=2011-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202072223/http://www.bkae.hu/jkut/ |archive-date=2007-02-02 |url-status=dead }}
  • India: Devi Ahilya University{{cite web |url=http://www.dsf.dauniv.ac.in/ |title=Home |website=dsf.dauniv.ac.in}}
  • India: University of Kerala{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralauniversity.edu/universitydepartments.htm#ncvzx |title=University Departments |access-date=2011-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804232718/http://www.keralauniversity.edu/universitydepartments.htm#ncvzx |archive-date=2011-08-04 |url-status=dead }}
  • Italy: Gregorian University[http://www.unigre.it Università Gregoriana – Home Page]
  • Mexico: Monterrey Institute of Technology{{Cite web |url=http://www.mty.itesm.mx/dhcs/deptos/ri/maestrias/prospectiva/Prospectiva.html |title=Maestría en Prospectiva Estratégica |access-date=2011-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201173615/http://www.mty.itesm.mx/dhcs/deptos/ri/maestrias/prospectiva/Prospectiva.html |archive-date=2009-02-01 |url-status=dead }}
  • Romania: Babeș-Bolyai University
  • Russia: Moscow State University
  • South Africa: Stellenbosch University[http://www.ifr.sun.ac.za Institute For Futures Research :::::: Home]
  • South Korea: [http://futures.kaist.ac.kr/ Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]
  • Taiwan: Tamkang University{{cite web |url=http://www.ed.tku.edu.tw/develop |title= 淡江大學 - 未來學研究中心|website=www.ed.tku.edu.tw |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030808181842/http://www.ed.tku.edu.tw/develop |archive-date=August 8, 2003}}
  • Taiwan: Fo Guang University[http://www.fgu.edu.tw/~future/ ¦ò¥ú¤j¾ÇªÀ·|¾Ç°|¥¼¨Ó¾Ç¨t©Ò]
  • US: University of Hawaii (Since 1971){{cite web|url=http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/|title=Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies}}
  • US: University of Houston (Since 2000){{cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/technology/departments/hdcs/graduate/fore/|title=Master of Science in Foresight}}
  • US: Stanford University[http://foresight.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Foresight and Innovation]
  • US: Regent University{{Cite web |url=http://www.regent.edu/global/msf |title=Regent University: School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship – Academics – MSF – Home |access-date=2011-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006091922/http://www.regent.edu/global/msf |archive-date=2008-10-06 |url-status=dead }}

Futurologists

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Publications

=Books=

=Periodicals and monographs=

See also

References

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External links

{{Sister project links|Futures studies}}

{{Sister project links|Futurology}}

  • [http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/publications.html – list of recent publications] from the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
  • [http://www.millennium-project.org/15-global-challenges/ 15 Global Challenges] from The Millennium Project

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