I have always loved these lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” (1980): “Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true Or is it something worse“ They sound true at first. But when you look closer, they are actually quite […]

Ideas generated with Mika-Petri Laakkonen – a forthcoming paper. 1. Introduction Time and temporality lie at the heart of futures research. Foundational works in the field have called for a closer examination of the role of time in human lives and future-making processes. However, discussions about time in futures research have been sporadic and often […]

Read the original post in this site: https://sites.utu.fi/sfi/news/interdisciplinarity-future In our foresight project, one of the main themes that requires answers is the future of the university as an organization based on individual disciplines. What are the roles of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in the future and how are they related in each other within a university? […]