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Letters to the Future

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Future Matters: Futures Known, Created and Minded

An International Conference

Cardiff University , September 4 - 6, 2006

On this page, we are aiming to collect as many of the papers/presentations given at the conference as possible. You will find all the papers given at the conference listed below together with links to abstracts and, where available, to the full papers (and/or in some cases, Powerpoint presentations). A paper from Monday evening's Scenarios Game session is also available.

Plenary Presentations

Presenter	Paper Title
Prof. Barbara Adam	The Future Has Already Happened
Prof. Wendell Bell	The Future of Human Society
Josephine Green	Interfacing with the Future
Dr Wolfgang Sachs	The Fairness of the Future and the Future of Fairness

Parallel Sessions

Session Title	Title of Paper (link to abstract)	Full Paper? (link)	Presenter Name	Country	Stream
Building the Future	Reversible Destiny Architecture: Fact, the Past Tense of Fiction		Russell Hughes	Australia	Creating
	The Writing is in the Wall	Yes	Sam Kebbell Project Website	New Zealand	Creating
	The Arts and the Future City	Yes	Laura Verdi	Italy	Creating
Constructing the Future Self	College Students' Anticipated Strategies of Coping with Uncertainty on the Job Market		Dr Oksana Baitinger	Germany	Creating
	Image-Making and the Emergence of the Creative Mind: Evolutionary, Developmental and Linguistic Perspectives	Yes Powerpoint	Pip Cotton	New Zealand	Creating
	New Biographical Constructions in the 'Risk Society': About Future and Planning	Yes	Prof Carmen Leccardi	Italy	Creating
Embodied Futures	The Temporality of Bodies: Becomings and the Future		Dr Beckie Coleman	UK	Creating
	Simple, Complex and Hyper-Complex Systems		Prof. Roberto Poli	Italy	Knowing
	Regulating Stem Cell Futures – Quality Assurance at the UK Stem Cell Bank		Dr Neil Stephens, et al.	UK	Creating
Ethnographic Futures	Shared Futures? Key to Analysing Imagined Past and Passing Present	Yes	Prof. Ronald Frankenberg	UK	Knowing
	Future Concepts in Russia and Germany		Dr Elisabeth Schilling	Germany	Knowing
	The Future Revisited: An Application of Lessons Learned, of Past Futures to Socio-Cultural Domain and Innovation Policy in the Netherlands	Yes	Dr Patrick van der Duin & Dr Ida Sabelis	Netherlands	Knowing
Expectations	Sceptical hope – Anticipations of nanotechnology		Mickey Gjerris	Denmark	Knowing
	Epistemic Cultures and Scientific Foresight		Dr Karen Kastenhofer	Germany	Knowing
	Towards a sociology of expectations around science and technology		Prof. Arie Rip	Netherlands	Knowing
Future-Oriented Responsibility	Non-reciprocal Responsibilities and the Banquet of the Kingdom	Yes	Prof. Robin Attfield	UK	Minding
	Care, Commitment and Non-reciprocal Responsibility	Yes	Dr Chris Groves	UK	Minding
	The Ontology of Responsibility	Yes (Powerpoint)	Prof. Roberto Poli	Italy	Minding
Gendered Futures	Equality of Responsibility: The Move from Responsibility as a Gendered Phenomenon		Karen Morgan	UK	Minding
	The politics of future representation: how do certain futures gain legitimacy over others in social interactions		Dr Ingrid Saint-Georges	Switzerland	Knowing
	Creating New Masculinities in Homosocial Binge-Drinking Contexts		Jason Peplinski	UK	Creating
Genetic Futures: Promises & Questions	Time, Technology and Desire	Yes	Jan Bennett	UK	Creating
	Facing the Future: Promissory Cures for Genetic Conditions		Dr Alex Plows and Dr Maggie Gregory	UK	Creating
	Art, Genomics and Future Society		Dr Marli Huijer	Netherlands	Creating
In Pursuit of Sustainability	Flooding and the Future	Yes	Catherine Butler	UK	Knowing/ Minding
	Designing sustainable coastal futures		Prof. Tim O'Riordan & Jessica Milligan	UK	Knowing
	Future Scenarios: Raising Awareness Towards a Sustainable Development		Nicola Tollin	Spain	Minding
Minding the Unknowable	Break Down: Transcendence and the Future in MySpace	Yes	John Drummond	UK	Minding
	Deep Time and Nuclear Contamination: Making the Invisible Visible through Photography and Imagination		Dr Kathleen Sullivan	USA	Minding
	Heart intelligence and global futures: exploring the power of heart-mind for creating healthy futures		Prof. Ron Purser	USA	Minding
Nanotech Futures	Governing Nanotechnologies: Using an Integrated Risk Assessment Approach to Guide their Futures		Astrid Gesche	Australia	Knowing
	Creating the Future Through Public Engagement on Nanotechnologies		Dr Tee Rogers-Hayden & Prof Nick Pidgeon	UK	Knowing
	Material Imaginations: the Insecure Promises of Nanotechnologies in China		James Wilsdon	UK	Knowing
Pedagogy of the Future	Futures thinking and critical thinking –commonalities and differences		Peter Bishop	USA	Knowing
	Minding the musical creativity of children: minding the potential of the future		Wendell Hanna	USA	Minding
	Imagined Futures and 'Post' Developmental Psychology		Dr Gabrielle Ivinson	UK	Minding
Performing the Future	Expectation		Phil Babot	UK	Creating
	Situating Artistic Practices within the Sustainable Community		Prof. Tina Simonton	USA
	How Poets Build Houses		Martin Harrison	Australia	Creating
	Performing the Future in Documentary Film		Bambo Soyinka	UK	Creating
Planning Futures	Examination on Environmental Behaviour for Sustainable Society		Keiichi Ishihara, et al.	Japan	Knowing
	Local Futures - Now, Soon, Later - from the 'Big Here' to the 'Long Now'	Yes	Jamie Saunders	UK	Knowing
	Future Constructions: Anticipation and Postponement in the Planning of Alexanderplatz, Berlin	Yes	Gisa Weszkalnys	UK	Knowing
Politics of the Future 1	Sensoring the Future: Reciprocal Maintenance and Civil Witness		Kingsley Dennis	UK	Minding
	The End of Work, A History of the Future		Edward Granter	UK	Knowing
	No Future: Liberal Democracy and the Loss of Time	Yes	Dr Robert Hassan	Australia	Knowing
Politics of the Future 2	Futures as Implicit Practice – Main Assumptions		Dr Emilia Araujo	Portugal	Knowing
	Politics of Time as Politics of Knowledge		Dr Stefan Böschen	Germany	Knowing
	Vegatopia: the Future of Compassion and Convenience in a Post-Speciesist World		Dr Matthew Cole	UK	Knowing
Public Futures	The Future of Public Policy	Yes	Hugh Compston	UK	Knowing
	Preferred Futures: Yours, Mine or Theirs?	Yes	Graham May	UK	Knowing
	After Capitalism	Yes	Nicholas Tresilian	UK	Creating
Strategies for Innovation	Knowing the Future is Learning from the Future		Remco Buisman	Netherlands	Knowing
	Entrepreneurship: economic and social embedding of the production of futures	Yes	Prof. Ted Fuller	UK	Knowing
	The Diversity of Creating Futures in Business, Politics and Science: Implications for Foresight, Strategy and Decision-Making		Ingo Rollwagen	Germany	Knowing
Sustainable Futures	Waste & Utopia: An Old Alliance		Alberto Duman	UK	Minding
	Creating a Vision of a Sustainable Wales	Yes	Prof. Jim Poole	UK	Minding
	Transition Management, Sustainable Systems Innovation, and the Challenge of Countervailing Trends: The Case of Personal Aeromobility	Yes	Prof. Maurie Cohen	USA	Minding
Understanding Designed Futures	The Impossibility of Knowledge in the Technopoly	Yes	Sheldon Richmond	Canada	Knowing
	Design Scenarios as Tools to Challenge Foreseen Futures		Ross Stevens et al.	New Zealand	Knowing
	A Performance by the Future Archaeologist Poem: Excerpt from a board meeting [...] Poem: Ethnography of a design studio [...]	Yes	Laura Watts Project Website	UK	Knowing

Scenarios Game
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