Critical Future Studies: Imagining and Challenging Tomorrow
Critical Future Studies: Imagining and Challenging Tomorrow
Description
Ever wondered what the world might look like in 10, 50, or 100 years? This micro-module introduces you to Critical Future Studies, an emerging research field that explores how ideas about the future are created and shared through movies, politics, and pop culture. You’ll learn to ask questions such as: Who will be included in these futures? How do our assumptions shape how we imagine tomorrow? And more importantly, you will learn how to imagine better futures!
The Team
Teamchers
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Learners
- Study period
- 19 January – 13 March 2026
- Study format
- Online
- Application period
- 15 December 2025 – 22 January 2026
- Credits
- 3.5 ECTS
- Hosting university
- Linkoping University
- Topics
Information
Value and progress
Knowledge generation
Students should be able to explain how knowledge is generated and formulated in public discussions about possible futures.
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Critical future studies methods
Students should be able to apply methods from critical futures studies to describe and interpret how different actors shape different possible futures and exclude other possible futures
ESCO SKILLS
Critical thinking
Student should be able to problematise anthropological, ontological and epistemological notions that are explicitly and implicitly formulated in public discourses about the future.
ESCO SKILLS
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Hosting university
Linkoping University
