Municipal visions: Reflexive futures between paradigm and practice |
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Authors: | Stefanie Jenssen |
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Institution: | Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, PO Box 1108 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway |
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Abstract: | How does the reflexive knowledge we develop about institutions and environments influence the expectations we might have about the future? The paper addresses this question in the context of Foresight in local governance. It describes a project aiming at creating visions for a Norwegian municipality by inviting schoolchildren to contribute with their ideas of the future. The focus is on how the interactions between project owners and participants produced certain forms of resistance and led to visions best described as idealistic conformism. Introducing the idea of ‘reflexive futures’, I suggest that that a broader understanding of reflexivity as containing both enabling and constraining features can help to unlock certain paradoxes of current Foresight and provide a renewed inquiry into the practise of visioning for strategy and long-term planning. |
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