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FUTURES STUDIES Causal Layered Analysis. Sohail Inayatullah Professor, Tamkang University, Sunshine Coast University, www.metafuture.org. Six Pillars of Foresight. Mapping the future Anticipating the future Timing the future Deepening the future Creating alternatives
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FUTURES STUDIESCausal Layered Analysis Sohail Inayatullah Professor, Tamkang University, Sunshine Coast University, www.metafuture.org
Six Pillars of Foresight Mapping the future Anticipating the future Timing the future Deepening the future Creating alternatives Transforming the future
Litany: - visible - disconnected news events • Systemic: - social, technological, economic, environmental and political causes • Discourses: - stakeholders - ideologies - worldviews • Myths-metaphors: - stories - legends - myths of trauma and transcendence
Causal Layered Analysis Newspaper headlines, superficial, common public perceptions Litany Social causes STEEP analysis Public Unconscious Superficial Deep Meaning Cultural/social/religious perspective or worldview Worldview Emotional, images or deep meanings Myth
CLA “real” Litany REALITY Social system & structure Worldview Myth & Metaphor “imagined” TIME Long term Short term
CLA - Stakeholders management Employees L O N G T E R M Unofficial Official Stakeholders
CLA - Ideologies conservative L O N G T E R M Feminist Green Ideologies Left
CLA - Worldviews Indigenous Confucian L O N G T E R M Islamic Worldviews West
CLA - Epistemes Post-modern Pre-modern L O N G T E R M Modern Ancient Conventional Epistemes
CLA AND SCENARIOS MATRIX Spaceship Earth (Technology) Collapse (Worst case) Gaia (Ecological) Modernist (Business as usual) Litany Social causes Worldview Myth Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4