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 ==== Future Fictions Quotes ==== ==== Future Fictions Quotes ====
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 +A selection of quotes for the Futures Lab of [[Future Fictions]]
  
 === Collected by Karen Verschooren === === Collected by Karen Verschooren ===
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 The best attitude for a serious futurist is not pessimism or optimism, but a deep sense of engagement. -Bruce Sterling The best attitude for a serious futurist is not pessimism or optimism, but a deep sense of engagement. -Bruce Sterling
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 +Translating global insight, the forte of futures studies, into local action, the forte of action research, would seem to be a promising challenge yet social change as structure and agency are integral to each other. Foresight without action is meaningless, and action without foresight can be dangerous. -Jose Ramos
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 +Critical futures studies is clearly a challenge to the distortion of meaning within society, seeking to be an agent for human emancipation. -Jose Ramos
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 +De 'alsof-strategie'. Die bouwt op een dubbele beweging. Enerzijds verplaatst een kunstenaar zich spelenderwijs in een specifieke maatschappelijke praktijk door het nabootsen van een set rollen, activiteiten, procedures, discoursen, attributen en ruimtes eigen aan die praktijk—net genoeg om er de dominante metafoor in het werk van te maken. Anderzijds wordt deze praktijk binnengeloodst in het domein van de kunst, waar ze—vrijgemaakt van haar eigen conventies —kan worden gemanipuleerd en bevraagd.(…) Alleen mogen we van dit potentieel van maatschappelijke innovatie geen sluitende antwoorden of oplossingen verwachten. Iets in de kunst blijft het denken en de verbeelding altijd openhouden. En even lijkt het alsof alles anders kan…  - Sébastien Hendrickx
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 From Stuart Candy's thesis [[the_futures_of_everyday_life]]: From Stuart Candy's thesis [[the_futures_of_everyday_life]]:
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  It's an acknowledgement of the need for collaborative, grassroots futures work, as opposed to the more predictive guru model, the long history of which clearly overshadows participatory, exploratory approaches to the future in the public mind. </blockquote>  It's an acknowledgement of the need for collaborative, grassroots futures work, as opposed to the more predictive guru model, the long history of which clearly overshadows participatory, exploratory approaches to the future in the public mind. </blockquote>
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 +== esoterica… ==
 +  * to do…
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 +Related: [[future_fictions_references]]
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