Changing the conversation about what lies ahead so we can better imagine, understand and articulate the new worlds we might want to create.
The future is everywhere in modern culture. Writers, filmmakers, politicians, consultants, scientists, futurists, advertisers give us their visions of it. Professions are devoted to understanding and predicting it: forecasters, strategists, innovators, business analysts. Disciplines have emerged to investigate their practices – Future Studies, Futurology, Futures etc.
Future Thinking seeks a broader understanding of how people imagine the future. It compares different methods, different times, different genres. It is based on the idea that the better we understand past and present future thinking, the more constructive a contribution we can make to imagining a desirable future.
In the series of FUTURES books, launching in 2024, we ask contributors to take their visions of the future to a new level.
Here you can find out more about the background to the FUTURES series, and the different strands of Future Thinking work the series originators – Max Saunders and Lisa Gee – undertake.
Dr Lisa Gee
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Digital Media
Lisa leads the Discovering Creative Practice modules on the University’s new Digital Media and Communications BA. Her research interests include inclusive/participatory research practices and William Hayley (1745-1820) and his network.
Lisa's profile
Professor Max Saunders
Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture
Max works on modern literature and culture. His main areas of interest are modernism, the literature of the First World War, life writing, literary impressionism, and futurology.
Max's profile