A note on the classification of future-related methods

Abstract

Abstract If futures studies aims to become someday an autonomous field of research and application, it must prove that it contributes knowledge, methods, and viewpoints different from those distinctive of other already established fields. A futurist’s toolbox requires both collecting the methods that make futurists different from other academics and practitioners (without implying that futurists must limit themselves to those methods alone) and organizing those methods according to future-based criteria, that is, according to a futures literacy typology.

Keywords

• Future-based method
• Knowledge base of futures studies
• Futures research methodology 3.0
• APF methods anthology
• Foresight
• Anticipation