Essays about: "Futures world"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 essays containing the words Futures world.

  1. 1. Regenerating Land, Regenerating Self: Towards a Care-full Regeneration Cycle of Inner-Outer Transformation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Rahel Könen; Clara Wessel; [2024]
    Keywords : Land Regeneration; Inner-outer Transformation; Ethics of Care; Regenerative Sustainability Transformations; Affirmative Political Ecology; Relational Turn; Care-full Regeneration Cycle; Emergence; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The world needs rapid transformation if we are to shift towards more just and regenerative socio-ecological futures. In merging scholarly fields of transformation studies, regeneration and ethics of care this thesis explores the connection between inner-outer regeneration through the in-depth study of a transformative caring process. READ MORE

  3. 2. Education, Employability and Imagining the Future: A Minor Field Study of Goals and Motivations in a South African Small-Scale Development Programme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Melina Pettersson; Julia Rönnbäck Finocchio; [2023]
    Keywords : Youth unemployment; Development; Education; Inequality; South Africa; Employability; Horizons of opportunity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, and that shows in the distribution of opportunities amongst South Africans. In the face of political failures to deliver improvements for unemployed youth NGO projects become more important avenues for young people to acquire resources needed to improve their lives. READ MORE

  4. 3. Shifting shorelines : reflection on visulization of sea level rise

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Essi Seiskari; [2023]
    Keywords : sea level rise; climate adaptation; managed retreat; visualization;

    Abstract : Sea level rise is predicted to radically transform coastal landscapes in the coming centuries. Caused by climate change, the impact is already felt in low-lying communities around the world. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Crisis of the Imagination: Games as a Tool for Visualizing Potential Futures

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Joakim Kvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Commercial video games; Crisis of the imagination; Escape Velocity; Future Scenarios; Sustainable Development; Worldmaking Interactions;

    Abstract : In order for the societal paradigm to shift in favor of climate-conscious practices and behaviors, it is clear that new and radically different perspectives need to be introduced to the public’s perception of climate change and sustainability. Humanity is currently suffering from a crisis of the imagination; the illustrious yet hegemonic worldview that we have exhausted all options available to us in the face of climate change. READ MORE

  6. 5. Moving Cities of the Future : The Power of Anticipation Fiction Over Our Modern Social Imaginaries

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Laurine Avice; [2023]
    Keywords : social imaginaries; fiction; moving cities; future;

    Abstract : The future is constantly growing as a more and more significant matter of interest, both in the academic fields and in everyday conversations. This thesis focuses on a specific perspective of the future: what if cities were no longer static by nature, but cruising across the world? By analysing three works of literary fiction, the aim is to illustrate how fiction, and more specifically ‘anticipation fiction’, can participate in shaping our social imaginaries, the understanding we have of the world, both when it comes to our present and our future. READ MORE