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Future Studies & Technology Foresight Department

The Future Studies & Technology Foresight Department trains students to read emerging energy technologies and societal shifts and to anticipate and respond to what comes next. Through hands-on practice with horizon scanning, Delphi surveys, and sociotechnical systems analysis, students carry out scenario-planning projects; by graduation, they can produce an evidence-based foresight report on an uncertain future energy landscape unaided and take a seat at the table where organizational adaptation strategy gets decided.

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Field-based Curriculum · 16

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Delphi Method & Structured Expert Elicitation
Delphi Method & Structured Expert Elicitation
Students learn the iterated, anonymous, statistically-fed-back design of the Del…
Olaf Helmer
Scenario Planning
Scenario Planning
In the Wack–Shell tradition, students learn scenario planning: building and usin…
Pierre Wack
Technology Forecasting & Systems Design for the Future
Technology Forecasting & Systems Design for the Future
Using Jantsch's framework, students learn exploratory and normative technologica…
Erich Jantsch
Foundations of Futures Studies (Futurology)
Foundations of Futures Studies (Futurology)
By examining whether systematic knowledge of the future is possible and what 'po…
Ossip K. Flechtheim
Limits to Growth & Global System Dynamics Modeling
Limits to Growth & Global System Dynamics Modeling
By reproducing and experimenting with global system dynamics exemplified by Worl…
Donella Meadows
La Prospective (French School of Strategic Foresight)
La Prospective (French School of Strategic Foresight)
Students learn the action-oriented futures conception of the French prospective …
Gaston Berger
Cross-Impact Analysis
Cross-Impact Analysis
Students learn and execute cross-impact analysis — handling sets of future event…
Theodore J. Gordon
Long-Wave Theory & Energy Transition Cycles
Long-Wave Theory & Energy Transition Cycles
Students gain a framework for analysing long-run energy-transition cycles throug…
Nikolai Kondratiev
Hydrogen Economy Foresight
Hydrogen Economy Foresight
Students analyse the prospects of hydrogen as a universal energy carrier through…
Cesare Marchetti
Space Futures & Space Resource Utilization
Space Futures & Space Resource Utilization
Students analyse the long-term prospects of human activity beyond Earth — settle…
Gerard K. O'Neill
Fusion Energy Futures
Fusion Energy Futures
From Spitzer's stellarator concept to recent milestones, students learn the phys…
Lyman Spitzer
Management Cybernetics & Sociotechnical Systems Foresight
Management Cybernetics & Sociotechnical Systems Foresight
Applying cybernetic principles — feedback, requisite variety — to organisations …
Stafford Beer
Technology Assessment
Technology Assessment
Students learn and perform technology assessment — the early, systematic analysi…
Harvey Brooks
Solar Energy & Renewable Transition Visioning
Solar Energy & Renewable Transition Visioning
From Farrington Daniels's tradition, students learn visioning and pathway design…
Farrington Daniels
Wild Cards & Discontinuity Analysis
Wild Cards & Discontinuity Analysis
Students systematically explore low-probability, high-impact wild cards, respond…
John L. Petersen
Morphological Analysis & Combinatorial Foresight
Morphological Analysis & Combinatorial Foresight
Through Zwicky's morphological analysis, students structure non-quantifiable com…
Ramon Llull