| Abstract: | Insights created within futures studies (FS) and written up in the futures literature may be too abstract and diverse to fulfil the goal of FS to provide clear ‘maps’ to non-specialists of the near-term future. However, graphics and images may help to make futures concepts and emerging insights easier to grasp. The paper surveys a little used and under-studied approach: that of near-future landscapes (NFLs). Several examples are considered. Useful as they may be, they are viewed as transitional forms that will be improved upon by greater interest in futures imaging processes and further developments in the technologies of graphic representation. |
