Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums

Dr Kristin Alford is the inaugural Director of MOD. at the University of South Australia.

Dedication; List of contributors (authors); List of contributors (museums); Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; SECTION 1: CONTEXT AND OPPORTUNITY – 1.1 Building community capabilities in futures thinking; 1.2 Reviewing approaches to community futures; 1.3 Museums as conduits for community futures literacy; SECTION 2: CASE STUDIES OF FUTURES IN MUSEUMS – Approach 1: Tools and methods to enable Futures Thinking: 2.1 Designing with the brain in mind: Implementing neuroscience-based design principles; 2.2 Exploring Futurium’s Futures Boxes: A tool for promoting Futures Literacies among students; 2.3 Touring the Future of Mobility: How Futures Literacy can shape a museum experience; 2.4 Feeling Uncertain: Immersion and interactivity in future-facing museum exhibits; Approach 2: Participatory futures informing museum design practice: 2.5 Planning for The Ubuntu Lab: Building capacity of people to better understand people; 2.6 Interview: Remembering the past to create the future at District Six Museum; 2.7 SUR-FIcciones: Science fiction as a methodology for possible futures in the Global South; 2.8 Futures forged by children: Fostering STEM identity at The DoSeum; 2.9 Designing MOD. to enable young people to think about futures; Approach 3: Anticipating futures by exploring and responding to drivers of change: 2.10 Engaging with futures at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro; 2.11 Designing the Exhibition at Futurium: Translating futures thinking into an exhibition context; 2.12 Interview: Community engagement to imagine futures at The Mind Museum; 2.13 Climate, sustainability and resilience in action: A case study from the Anchorage Museum; 2.14 Someday, all this: The Climate Museum Pop-up in Manhattan; 2.15 Interview: Futures-orientation for improved decision-making with MIDE; 2.16 How to make visions of the future accessible? The Deutsches Museum Nuremberg; Approach 4: Imagining immersive experiences of futures: 2.17 Future narratives in screen culture; 2.18 Journey of the Pioneers at Museum of the Future in Dubai; 2.19 Plausible immersive futures with Seven Siblings in Finland, Southern Australia and Arizona; 2.20 Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of the Imagination by the Science Museum in London; 2.21 Experiential futures as a bridge to foresight practice at ArtScience Museum; SECTION 3: DEVELOPING THE EMERGING FIELD OF FUTURE ORIENTED MUSEUMS; Glossary; Index.