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Bina, O., Mateus, S., Pereira, L. & Caffa, A. (2017). The future imagined: exploring fiction as a means of reflecting on today’s grand societal challenges and tomorrow’s options. Futures. 86, 166-184
O. Bina et al., "The future imagined: exploring fiction as a means of reflecting on today’s grand societal challenges and tomorrow’s options", in Futures, vol. 86, pp. 166-184, 2017
@article{bina2017_1714038528682, author = "Bina, O. and Mateus, S. and Pereira, L. and Caffa, A.", title = "The future imagined: exploring fiction as a means of reflecting on today’s grand societal challenges and tomorrow’s options", journal = "Futures", year = "2017", volume = "86", number = "", doi = "10.1016/j.futures.2016.05.009", pages = "166-184", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328716301288" }
TY - JOUR TI - The future imagined: exploring fiction as a means of reflecting on today’s grand societal challenges and tomorrow’s options T2 - Futures VL - 86 AU - Bina, O. AU - Mateus, S. AU - Pereira, L. AU - Caffa, A. PY - 2017 SP - 166-184 SN - 0016-3287 DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2016.05.009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328716301288 AB - European science policy (so-called Horizon 2020) is guided by Grand Societal Challenges (GSCs) with the explicit aim of shaping the future. In this paper we propose an innovative approach to the analysis and critique of Europe’s GSCs. The aim is to explore how speculative and creative fiction offer ways of embodying, telling, imagining, and symbolising ‘futures’, that can provide alternative frames and understandings to enrich the grand challenges of the 21st century, and the related rationale and agendas for ERA and H2020. We identify six ways in which filmic and literary representations can be considered creative foresight methods (i.e. through: creative input, detail, warning, reflection, critique, involvement) and can provide alternative perspectives on these central challenges, and warning signals for the science policy they inform. The inquiry involved the selection of 64 novels and movies engaging with notions of the future, produced over the last 150 years. Content analysis based on a standardised matrix of major themes and sub-domains, allows to build a hierarchy of themes and to identify major patterns of long-lasting concerns about humanity’s future. The study highlights how fiction sees oppression, inequality and a range of ethical issues linked to human and nature’s dignity as central to, and inseparable from innovation, technology and science. It concludes identifying warning signals in four major domains, arguing that these signals are compelling, and ought to be heard, not least because elements of such future have already escaped the imaginary world to make part of today’s experience. It identifies areas poorly defined or absent from Europe's science agenda, and argues for the need to increase research into human, social, political and cultural processes involved in techno-science endeavours. ER -