Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Concepts as FuturesA proposal for a continuation of conceptual history in Futures Studies
Constructing Social Futures | Turku, June 2019
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Concepts as Futures ?!Continuity and change .... can be explored looking at the concepts used to make
meaning of ‚the future‘.
[Premise: meaning (language, actions, ...) constitutes andconstructs social reality, (extended) post-structuralist andconstructivist approach]
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
The Image of a Timeline
present futurepast
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
presentpast future
Contemporality
present present
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
present
Contemporality
present past(space of
experience)
present future(horizon of
expectation)
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
(Re)Production of Meaning
Dialectic process of creatingmeaning
SystemConventional rules
based on difference, not reference>> Enables and prefigures acts
ActIndividual realization
>> Institutionalises and (re)produces system
meaning constructs and constitutes reality, it is conventional and not neutral.
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
presentpresent past present future
Concepts as Futures
ActsConventionalmeaning
(re)producedmeaning
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Concepts as Futures
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Continuing Conceptual History – ConceptualFutures
Conceptual History
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Conceptual History
„Historische Grundbegriffe“ Otto Brunner, Werner Conze, Reinhart Koselleck (eds.)Published from 1972 to 1977
• Investigating historical change via the (diachrone and synchrone) change of meaning
• critical historical heuristic, asking for:• Who/What is included and excluded?• Who is (not) adressed? • Are there any specific use-contexts?• What driving forces led to new
meanings/interpretations?
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Continuing Conceptual History – ConceptualFutures
Conceptual History Conceptual Futures
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Proposed Task: Conceptual Futures Studies
Concepts as Futures | Nele Fischer & Sascha Dannenberg, Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Proposed Task: Conceptual Futures Studies
Let‘s continue this conceptual work with regard to ‚the future‘:
https://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/confu/Conceptual+Futures+StartseitePlease approach Daina for access to the wiki: [email protected]
Contact me if you want to discuss the idea: [email protected]
