In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating
pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios …

Insights about biocultural hope emerged at the Multispecies Salon, an art exhibit in New
Orleans. In a landscape blasted by Hurricane Katrina and flooded by oil following BP's …

Educators today are increasingly asked to transform education to meet the economic needs
of the future. Progressive education research has long sought to contest such instrumental …

This essay argues that thinking about university futures requires not only practices of critique
and desire, but practices of rigorous and reflexive imagination. Building on Bill Sharpe's …

Bruno Latour has tried to bring a parliamentary democracy to the domain of nature. Wading
through the swamps of Palo Verde, a national park in the Guanacaste Province of Costa …

This chapter discusses the significance of futures thinking in the heritage sector and how it
can be taught to professionals. After a short exploration of how much we can know about the …

John Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media
industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through …

Powerful forces have tried to steal the very idea of hope. 1 As an empty political
slogan,“hope” has bulldozed over our dreams. 2 Yet, in the aftermath of disaster—in blasted …

ABSTRACT STEAM is a coupling of the well-known STEM-disciplines of science,
technology, engineering and mathematics with the arts. This conception of education builds …

This study investigates how managers and employees at County Museums in Sweden think
about, work with, and relate to the future in their daily practice. We examined which tools and …