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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 Strange
Research 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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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Policy Design and Practice

ISSN

2574-1292

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

3

Page range

109-122

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

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  • Creative Technology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2020-03-26

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-03-26

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2020-03-25

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