Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums

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

• Dedication; Contributing authors; Contributing museums; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; SECTION I: 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 II: CASE STUDIES OF FUTURES IN MUSEUMS – 2.1 Introduction to case studies of futures in museums; Approach 1: Tools and methods to enable future thinking 2.2 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; 2.4 Touring the Future of Mobility: How Futures Literacy can shape a museum experience; 2.5 Feeling uncertain: Immersion and interactivity in future-facing museum exhibits; Approach 2: Participatory futures informing museum design practice: 2.6 Planning for The Ubuntu Lab: Building capacity of people to better understand people; 2.7 Interview: District Six museum – Remembering the past to create the future at District Six Museum; 2.8 SUR-FIcciones: Science fiction as a methodology for possible futures in the Global South; 2.9 Futures forged by children: Fostering STEM identity at The DoSeum; 2.10 Designing MOD. to enable young people to think about futures; Approach 3: Anticipating futures by exploring and responding to drivers of change: 2.11 Engaging with futures at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro; 2.12 Designing the Exhibition at Futurium: Translating futures thinking into an exhibition context; 2.13 Interview: The Mind Museum – Community engagement to imagine futures at The Mind Museum; 2.14 Climate, sustainability, and resilience in action: A case study from the Anchorage Museum; 2.15 Someday, all this: The Climate Museum Pop-Up in Manhattan; 2.16 Interview: Museo Interactivo de Economia – Futuresorientation for improved decision-making with MIDE; 2.17 How to make visions of the future accessible? The Deutsches Museum Nuremberg; Approach 4: Imagining immersive experiences of futures: 2.18 Future narratives in screen culture; 2.19 Journey of the Pioneers at Museum of the Future in Dubai; 2.20 Plausible immersive futures with Seven Siblings in Finland, Southern Australia, and Arizona; 2.21 Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of the Imagination by the Science Museum in London; 2.22 Experiential futures as a bridge to foresight practice at ArtScience Museum; SECTION III: FUTURES FOR FUTURES-ORIENTED MUSEUMS; 3.1 Developing the emerging field of future-oriented museums; Glossary; Index.