How do you create the future you want to live in? A primer on backcasting, from @GreenSourceMag via @greenmuseum

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greensource.construction.com 10 Aug '12, 4pm

How do you create the future you want to live in? A primer on backcasting, from @GreenSourceMag via @greenmuseum

Ever considered putting a futurist on your design team? One might help you overcome one of the biggest obstacles to the creation of a sustainable future—the integrated design process. Consider what John Robinson wrote in 1988 in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change: "To the degree that the future is not already determined but remains to be created, then the search for the most likely future (i.e., the best prediction) is not only misguided but counterproductive. Thus, what are needed are not techniques that converge on likelihood but techniques that reveal possibility and test the feasibility and impacts of alternative futures." ----- Advertising ----- Integrated design for sustainability does not equip us to "reveal possibility." Instead, it is used to eke out marginal gains by optimizing the design process after we have predicted what we think we can "...

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