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Future public policy and its knowledge base: shaping worldviews through counterfactual world-making
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posted on 2023-06-12, 09:25 authored by Per-Anders Hillgren, Ann LightAnn Light, Michael StrangeResearch in diverse areas such as climate change, happiness and wellbeing emphasizes the need for transformative change, stressing the importance of rethinking established values, goals and paradigms prevailing among civil servants, policy- and decision makers. In this paper, we discuss a role that design can play in this, especially how processes of counterfactual world-making can help facilitate reflection on worldviews and the shape of future forms of governance. By exploring different presents, rather than conditions in the future, this approach allows civil servants to consider, create and resist playful alternatives to business-as-usual. In this way, we demonstrate how design can stimulate imagination both as to futures and people’s role in shaping these futures.
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Policy Design and PracticeISSN
2574-1292Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
3Page range
109-122Department affiliated with
- Engineering and Design Publications
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- Creative Technology Publications
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2020-03-26First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2020-03-25Usage metrics
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