The Futures In The Present Project
Supervisor
Hana Hawlina
Team
Communications officer: Dragana Neshevska.
Project coordinator: Zoey Pham.
Survey project manager: Szymon Mizak.
Interview project manager: Darianna Frontera-Villanueva.
Public engagement coordinator: Minnie McMillian.
Abstract
What do people imagine might happen in the future, and how is that related to the actual present, past, and the future? The research team will explore the relationship between ontogenesis (personal development) and sociogenesis (societal development) in the case of imagining collective futures. We will conduct multiple applications of a survey and a series of interviews about what people in different cultural and socio-economic contexts imagine might happen in the future, how that corresponds to current events, their political attitudes, personality traits and attitudes towards the future (e.g., optimism, temporal orientation), behaviours in the present (e.g., conservation, political engagement), and how people creatively construct personal narratives of the future from available cultural resources (e.g., media discourses, fiction).