Future Thinking

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.

Research team

• Dr Lisa Gee - Lisa's profile
• Professor Max Saunders - Max's profile