In a world that seems caught in a crisis-ridden present, there is a need to reawaken our capacity to collectively imagine, make, organise, and educate towards more hopeful futures. The centre offers a transdisciplinary space for collaborative research and education for just, sustainable and inclusive futures that invites diverse knowledges and perspectives.

The world faces a deficit of social imagination. We find it easy to imagine apocalypse and disaster; or to imagine new generations of technology. But we find it much harder than in the past to imagine a better society a generation or more into the future.

Geoff Mulgan, The Imaginary Crisis (2020)

Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures brings together researchers and teachers from across the university to bring the transformative and critical potential of design, art, culture, humanities and the social sciences to bear on key areas of critical societal transformation. The scope of these areas spans critical issues such as collective responses to climate change, environmental degradation and sustainability to the rise of political polarization and extremism or the profound impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid development of digital technology on relationships, social interactions and public discourse, and ultimately, the sustainability of society and democracy.

Our shared agenda in these areas is organised around four interconnected orientations to future-making, each providing a set of questions, concerns and methods: Imagining Futures, Making Futures, Organizing Futures, and Educating for Futures.

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Collaboration

Collaboration is an integral dimension of our work, and is built into all processes and activities of the centre. We draw on existing collaboration infrastructures at Malmö University, for example the Forum for Social Innovation Sweden, UNIC Centre for City Futures, alongside a number of partnerships with external stakeholders, in order to increase our societal reach and impact.

Contact

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futures@mau.se