The Techniques of Futuring project examines how emerging media are reshaping our ability to envision and create sustainable futures.
The field of emerging media is becoming a site of intense experimentation. Creative tools and processes are advancing rapidly, infused with AI, immersive platforms, networked experiences, and adjacent technologies. These emerging media technologies are also opening up the possibilities for previously marginalised groups to shape new climate and biodiversity narratives.
We focus on:
- Identifying innovative futuring practices using emerging media
- Analyzing the impact of these techniques on sustainability thinking and action
- Fostering collaboration between researchers, artists, and sustainability practitioners
Our interdisciplinary approach combines insights from futures studies, sustainability science, media studies, and the arts to understand how we can better imagine and work towards positive planetary futures.
Meet the team
Diego Galafassi
Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Diego is a sustainability scientist and artist exploring the role of imagination in sustainability transformations. His work combines participatory art, futures thinking, and sustainability science.
Galafassi, Diego, J. David Tàbara, and María Heras. "Restoring our senses, restoring the Earth. Fostering imaginative capacities through the arts for envisioning climate transformations." Elem Sci Anth 6 (2018): 69.
Galafassi, Diego. "Breathe: Bridging the Personal and The Planetary through Augmented-Reality Experiences." Museums and Technologies of Presence. Routledge, 2023. 170-181.
Michele-Lee Moore
Associate professor at Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her research focuses on transformative change in social-ecological systems, with a particular interest in water governance and social innovation.
Moore, Michele-Lee, and Manjana Milkoreit. "Imagination and transformations to sustainable and just futures." Elem Sci Anth 8.1 (2020): 081.
Keys, Patrick W., et al. "The dry sky: future scenarios for humanity's modification of the atmospheric water cycle." Global Sustainability 7 (2024): e11.
Manjana Milkoreit
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. Her current research focusses on the role of future thinking (imagination) in global sustainability governance and the development of a governance agenda to address the risks of Earth system tipping points.
Milkoreit, Manjana. "The promise of climate fiction: imagination, storytelling, and the politics of the future." Reimagining climate change. Routledge, 2016. 171-191.
Milkoreit, Manjana. "Imaginary politics: Climate change and making the future." Elem Sci Anth 5 (2017): 62.
Victor Galaz
Victor is associate professor in political science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre , and programme director of the Beijer Institute’s Governance, Technology and Complexity programme. His research focuses on global environmental governance and planetary boundaries, with an interest in the role of emerging technologies.
Galaz, Victor, et al. "Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability." Technology in Society 67 (2021): 101741.
Galaz, V., H. Metzler, S. Daume, A. Olsson, B. Lindström, A. Marklund (2023). Climate misinformation in a climate of misinformation. Research brief. Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University) and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).