Tag: Futures

Free Download Pelle Ehn, "Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy"
English | ISBN: 0262027933 | 2014 | 351 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.

Free Download Futures of Black Radicalism By Gaye Theresa Johnson; Alex Lubin
2017 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1784787574 | EPUB | 1 MB
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key intellectuals-inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson-recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires. In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, Baltimore, and Hong Kong immediately connect across vast distances, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics is thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in this new intellectual wave, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today. With contributions from Greg Burris, Jordan T. Camp, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Avery F. Gordon, Stefano Harney, Christina Heatherton, Robin D.G. Kelley, George Lipsitz, Fred Moten, Paul Ortiz, Steven Osuna, Kwame M. Phillips, Shana L. Redmond, Cedric J. Robinson, Elizabeth P. Robinson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Damien M. Sojoyner, Darryl C. Thomas, and Françoise Vergès.

Free Download Making Futures Work (First Early Release) by Phil Balagtas
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781098148904 | 147 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 12 Mb
Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Atari, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, Lufthansa, and McKinsey & Company.

Free Download Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures (Digital Barricades) By Caroline Bassett, Sarah Kember, Kate O’Riordan
2019 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0745340490 | PDF | 2 MB
As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world, ask the authors of Furious, when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O’Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes including the automation of home and domestic work, the Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures.

Free Download Suzanne M. McCullagh, "Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures "
English | ISBN: 1793652813 | 2021 | 184 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures critically interrogates the discursive framing of extinctions and how they relate to the systems that bring about biocultural loss. The chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine approaches to ecological and social extinction and resurgence from a variety of fields, including environmental studies, literary studies, political science, and philosophy. Grounding their scholarship in decolonial, Indigenous, and counter-hegemonic frameworks, the contributors advocate for shifting the discursive focus from ruin to regeneration.

Free Download John Stephens Thor Kerr, "Indian Ocean Futures"
English | ISBN: 1443894923 | 2016 | 307 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Rapid change in trade, demographics, culture and environment around the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted in this globally strategically important region. Indian Ocean Futures: Communities, Sustainability and Security raises awareness of threats and opportunities beyond popular notions of communities through an examination of issues of concern to local, national, regional and transnational communities around the Indian Ocean Rim. This edited book is organized into three broad areas: the heritage and identity of communities, their sustainability and their security. The first section examines how heritage and identity are negotiated in establishing the basis of communities and public discussion of their futures. The second part explores different practices, technologies and communities of sustainability; from technologies being developed for sustainable coastal regions to the adoption of traditional practices for food management. The final section canvasses the changing landscapes and seascapes of the Indian Ocean in relation to the broad concerns of food, environmental and political security. As such, this volume offers the reader valuable engagement with the complex relations of communities and environments and key discourses shaping understandings of the future of the Indian Ocean region.

Free Download Shaping Smart Mobility Futures : Governance and Policy Instruments in Times of Sustainability Transitions
by Alexander Paulsson and Claus Hedegaard Sørensen
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1839826517 | 244 Pages | True ePUB/PDF | 5.2 MB

Free Download Materializing Digital Futures : Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision
by Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1501361252 | 352 Pages | True ePUB | 3.25 MB

Free Download AnnaLisa Meyboom, "Driverless Urban Futures: A Speculative Atlas for Autonomous Vehicles"
English | 2018 | pages: 308 | ISBN: 0815354088 | PDF | 181,4 mb
Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today, autonomous vehicles (AVs, also referred to as self-driving cars) represent the next disruptive innovation in mobility, with particularly profound impacts for cities. At a moment of the fast-paced development of AVs by auto-making companies around the world, policymakers, planners, and designers need to anticipate and address the many questions concerning the impacts of this new technology on urbanism and society at large.

Free Download Martín Tironi, "Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding "
English | ISBN: 1032334401 | 2025 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 13 MB