Track 12: futuring

Behold all of you, shamans, prophets, Nostradamus -, Jules Verne - and Kubrick-  wannabees, charlatans with YouTube channels - Here come planners to change the game of storytelling the future - the most powerful stories made to change the minds and wrongdoings on all life on Earth!

Come planners - show us how to wake up corrupted politicians, hypnotised consumers, hungry money makers, crazy innovators, angry activists and the ones we left behind! Tell us all and invite us to your well-organised, knowledge-based rewilding regional designs, urban labs, digital twins, energetic communities, nature-based solutions, place-making tools and degrowth platforms!

In the age of increasing collective vulnerabilities and responsibilities, this track explores planners' knowledge, skills and values in imagining and navigating societies towards a desirable future 10, 20, 50 or 100 years from now.

Which scenarios of sustainable development would you see coming to life? Discuss different approaches and purposes of making spatial scenarios -descriptive, normative, predictive or exploratory: do you develop Three Horizons or the Cascade Model Strategy? All those who make their stories by modelling STEEP (social, technological, environmental, economic and political) trends and their spatial impacts are invited to come and unpack their black boxes.

We invite you to reveal your forecasting technique, future-proofing, and backcasting knowledge. Please discuss with us the skills and values behind the well-organised, knowledge-based rewilding regional designs, urban labs, digital twins, high-tech or IA-driven metropolises, energetic communities, circular economy action plans, low-tech and bioclimatic resolutions, resource-saving proposals, nature-based solutions, place-making tools and degrowth platforms! The future at stake needs both game-changing storytelling and actions. 

As such, how does your proposal construct a new narrative for a desirable future? 

Does it pursue philosophical, ethical and political approaches, such as the Conservation ethic of Gifford Pinchot, the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, the Preservation ethic of John Muir or John Ruskin, or the Deep Ecology of Arne Naess? 

Is it linked to an economic perspective, pursuing Goergescu-Roegen's thesis on “entropy” (1971), conducting to “decrease” approaches, or does it follow Robert Solow’s or John Hartwick’s « weak sustainability » thesis?

On top of the new narrative, how does your proposal translate to concrete actions? Is it a new form of utopia or a feasible scenario? 

If such, what innovations or technical renewal are necessary to make it happen? Finally, what constraints and controversies do your game-changing scenarios face, either political, economic, social or technical?

The track welcomes abstracts addressing, but not limited to, the following sometimes overlapping themes:

• future as a domain of freedom and domain of power;
• utopian/dystopian narratives, missions and their purpose - sustainability, climate action, climate justice; 
• technical forecasts and projections, their purpose and methods;
• tools for making collaborative and innovative scenarios and pathways;
• sustainable spatiotemporal transitions - concepts, methods and politics;
• cross-scalar futuring - from global to local futures and back and forth;
• practice of co-construction of practical alternatives;

Keywords: future, time, space, spatio-temporal, baseline, timeline, modelling, scenarios, forecasts, pathways, transitions, alternatives, politics, action, change, collaboration, urgency, uncertainty, level of certainty

1. Alessia Allegri - City On Demand: When The Digital Dimension Takes Shape
2. Zeyin Chen - Multi-Scenario Land Use Change Assessment And Elastic Urban Growth Boundaries Delimitation Based On “Double Evaluation” And Cellular Automata Models
3. Svenja Müller - Testing A New Management Approach To Settlement Development: Certification As An Instrument For Reducing Land Consumption
4. Varsha Padmanabhan - Sustainable Airport City Development  Focusing Towards Mixed Use: Future Proofing Airport & Airport Cities For Inclusive Developments
5. Aulia Paramita - Speculative Urbanism In The Imagined New Capital City Of Indonesia

1. Diana Denham - Centering Indigenous Knowledge And Values In The Development Of Integrated Agroecological Renewable Energy Systems Through Convergent Research
2. Deniz Kimyon - Marginalizing The Banlieues Or Confronting With The Colonialism Of Everyday Life?
3. Barbara Lipietz - Taking ‘Displaceability’ Seriously: A Game-Changer For Just And Sustainable Planning?
4. Maurizia Pignatelli - Enhancing Local Sustainable Development: A Digital Spatial Decision Support System To Recovery Marginal Areas In Italy
5. Liangkai Deng - The Internet-Induced Restructuring Of Urban-Rural Spatial Relationships: A Case Study Of Q Town In Shaanxi Province In China

1. Tijana Dabovic - A Game Changer In Geodesign Concepts, Technology And Education: The Case Of Gc Climate Action For Belgrade
2. Bahar Aksel Enşici - Projecting The Future. Scenario Building In Urban Design
3. Akis Kalamaras - Vision As A Game Changer In Regional Planning. How Foresight's Visionary Process Can Lead In A Radical Break Between The Present And The Future?
4. Valeria Lingua - Regional Design Practices For Envisioning Regional Futures: The Florence Approach
5. Antti Roose - Unravelling A Sustainability Vision In The National Spatial Plan
6. Jan Schreurs - Integrating Metaphors For A Planning Ecology. Evaluating The Work Of A Local Quality Team

1. Hilal Erkuş - Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence And Technological Innovation In Tourism Cities Through 2023 European Smart Tourism Capitals: A Comparative Analysis
2. Clemence Vannier - Modelling Scenarios And Pathways For Climate-Smart Landscapes In New Zealand
3. Geert Te Boveldt - Looking For Robustness In Uncertain Futures: An Integrated Scenario – Policy Packaging Method

1. Jie Luo - An Experiment In Degentrification In Community Renewal: A Case Study Of Future Communities In Zhejiang, China
2. Zhejing Cao - ICT For A Better 15-Minute Community: Progress In Shanghai And Future Directions
3. Heeseo Rain Kwon - Using Spatial Agent-Based Modelling To Study Interlinkages Between 20-Minute Neighbourhood, Travel Behaviour And Health
4. Beatrice Stolz - Perceptions Of Architectural Qualities In Neighbourhoods, A Study Of Narratives
5. Maria Garcia Martin - The Experience Of The Place For Psychological Restoration In Urban Public Spaces

1. Lucie Laurian - Reclaiming Good Distant Futures For Planning Education And Practice : Lessons From History, Science Fiction, Future Studies, And Solar Punk
2. Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira - Desirable Futures: Human-Nature Relationships In Urban Planning
3. Ettore Donadoni - Winter Is Coming. Scenarios For The Italian School Infrastructure In The Demographic Decline 
4. May Saeedi, et al - The analytical study of hospitality culture and urban identity and its impact on the future of marine tourism in Red Sea coastal port cities: a case study of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 
5. Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone - Backcasting As A Tool For Governing Transitions Beyond Techno-Solutionism: The Torino2050 And Tomove Projects

1. Ludovico Centis - Planning And The Unthinkable. Inertia, Imagination And Climate Change Along The Upper Adriatic Coast
2. Rasmus Steffansen: Creating futures: Planning tools for keeping the future abundant

1. Hee Sun Choi - Exploring The Intersection Of Language, Perception And Place
2. Katharina Mayer - Spatial Strategies - A Solution To Increase Visualizing In Strategic Planning
3. Kersten Nabielek - Spatial Scenarios As A Tool For Future-Proof Spatial Planning In The Netherlands
4. Miguel L. Navarro-Ligero - Prototyping Future Scenarios For Urban Planning Through The Production Of Virtual Reality Scenes
5. Orlando Roman - Using Computational Models To Explore Future Scenarios And Gain Insights For Urban Planning: The Case Of The Technological Shift In Transportation In Singapore
6. Peter Pelzer - Rooted Imagination: Beyond The Imagination Paradox

1. Mikko Airikkala - Bridging Qualitative And Quantitative Methods Of Futures Knowledge Creation In Strategic Spatial Planning
2. Luis Gabriel Hilti - Transformative Urbanism. Navigating Uncertain Futures As A Societal Searching And Learning Process
3. Evelyn Riemer - Beyond Simulation: Digital Twin Cities As Catalysts For Learning And Participatory Urban Development.
4. Alberto Rojas-Rivero - The Use Of Future Scenarios For Exploring Collaboration Strategies With Key Actors In Transport Planning
5. Joanne Tippett - Shared Imaginaries: Co-Creating A Sustainability Learning Journey One Building Block At A Time With The Roundview

1. Camilo Vladimir de Lima Amaral - Utopias As A Design-Thinking Keys For Counter-Hegemonic Ecological Transitions
2. Thomas Machiels - Creating Flexible Plans For An Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios To Adaptive Plans With Real Options
3. Saskia Naafs - Futuring For Transformative Change In Spatial Planning: A Comparative Case Study From The Netherlands
4. Bojana Pjanovic - Changing The Game With Exploratory And Transformative Scenarios
5. Guy van Nifterik - Planning Transformational Accessibility For Uncertain Futures: A Research Agenda For New Methods To Cope With Uncertainty
6. Jeong-Il Park - Urban-Industrial Spatial Re-Integration: Examining Seoul Metro Area’S Manufacturing Landscape