Visualising the future - with Garry Peterson (Stockholm Resilience Centre) and Susanna Barrineau (SLU)

Garry Peterson will in his presentation Nature Futures discuss different ways people can use futures thinking to improve thinking around people and nature.  Globally recent IPBES assessments have shown that human activity is rapidly unravelling the web of life that supports all human enterprise, and that there is a lack of identified pathways towards futures in which people can achieve the goal of living in “harmony with nature”, that state goal of all the world’s nations.  I will discuss recent efforts to articulate such pathways, the challenges these efforts face, and recent progress as well as relate these challenges to MISTRA Food Futures.

Susanna Barrineau will give a presentation with the title Expanding the possibilities of the present with futures thinking where she will discuss how we can move into futures in open ways that allow for the multiple pathways needed to approach wicked contexts. How can we create moments or processes in research that support this? This presentation introduces two futures-oriented approaches – Causal Layered Analysis and Games for Change. These methods are explored as tools for transformative learning and as ways to “undefine the future” within research. 

This webinar is part of a series, arranged by the Futures Lab at SLU which is a forum for interdisciplinary explorations of future research questions and societal challenges. The main target audiences are SLU researchers, teachers and students, but anyone interested is welcome to join.

The next webinar and discussion in the series will take place 9 November at 12-14 hosting Dagmar Haase (Humbolt Universität, Berlin) and Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson (Future Walks, Lund University). In English. More information to come. Arranged by SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures.

From the webinar

• Link to the recording of the webinar (Youtube)
• Garry Peterson's presentation Nature Futures (pdf)
• Susanna Barrineau's presentation Expanding the possibilities of the present with futures thinking (pdf)
• Shared links and resources (pdf)
• Saved chat from the webinar (pdf)
• Notes from the discussion (pdf)