Placing the Future

Johannes Glückler is Professor and Chair of Economic Geographies of the Future at LMU Munich, Germany. Previously, he was a professor of economic and social geography at Heidelberg University between 2008 and 2023. In his research he develops a relational perspective of social networks, institutions, and governance in the study of the geography of knowledge, innovation, and regional development. He is a founding board member of the German Society for Social Network Research (DGNet) and co-founder of the M.Sc. Governance of Risk and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile.Matthias Garschagen is Chair Professor of Human Geography and Human-Environment-Relations at LMU Munich, Germany, and Honorary Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change, particularly in cities. He has served as lead author in various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was the scientific lead of the World Risk Report by the United Nations University.Robert Panitz is a Junior Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Previously, he served as an Interim Professor at the University of Bremen and worked as a Postdoc at Heidelberg University. He is a member of the German Society for Social Network Research (DGNet). His research focuses on the social and organizational structures and processes that foster innovation and technology development, as well as the organizational and social effects of these advancements. Methodologically, he has a particular interest in social network analysis.

• Chapter 1. Placing the Future: Understanding Space in the Making of Tomorrow.- Part I: Knowing the Future.- Chapter 2. Using Judgement to Anticipate the Future.- Chapter 3. A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future after Capitalism.- Chapter 4. Futures Consciousness as Vaccination against Misplaced Futures.- Chapter 5. Anaesthetic Worlds of Denial: ’Sleepwalking’ through Climate Catastrophe.- Part II: Envisioning the Future.- Chapter 6. Utopias of Extinction.- Chapter 7. Futures all Around: Anthropological Reflections on Where (and How) to Find the Future.- Chapter 8. Envisioning Alternative Economic Futures through the Lens of Food.- Chapter 9. Economic Geographies of Post-Growth.- Chapter 10. Trusted Emplaced Futures.- Chapter 11. Speculating on Future Presents: Sociology, Futures, and Fictions.- Part III: Enacting the Future.- Chapter 12. Design and other Ways of Knowing the Future.- Chapter 13. Techniques of Futuring: How Imagined Futures Become Socially Performative.- Chapter 14. Outsourcing the Future.- Chapter 15. Futures Governance: The Case of Outer Space Technology.- Chapter 16. Was it Worth a Try? A few Lessons for the Future of Conferencing.