Through case studies of futures workshops and courses, the importance of decolonizing the future and creating authentic alternative futures is highlighted. Futures studies, it is argued, is about understanding the human condition, what it has become, and how we can participate in changing it. An ideal futures studies is multileveled, empirical, interpretive, and critical in its research focus. Offered in this article is causal layered analysis, a futures method that takes a multicultural and multidisciplinary approach to the future.
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