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The Future Making Research Consortium is (was) a network of researchers, bringing together people from industry and academia to explore how we’re building possible futures through our everyday activities of talking, researching, curating, writing, and teaching. The tools we use to make sense of our world also shape our future, for ill or good. How can we intervene in this process, to build more sustainable, ethically sensible futures? What do we want to become? Projects and meetings within this network, such as the Skagen Institute on Transgressive Methods, strive to connect practices of inquiry with larger social structures of knowledge and action.
Future Making explores creative and transgressive approaches to thinking about scientific and humanistic inquiry practices. We believe that pushing against established disciplinary, methodological, and epistemological boundaries is essential to building robust attitudes and practices within cultures that are ever more impacted by digital media, global networks of connectivity, and technological mediation.
This inter and multi-disciplinary research group was developed independently, and had strong affiliation with Aarhus University, particularly within media studies and information studies and digital design departments. It was partly funded by the Cultural Transformations research programme at Aarhus University, Denmark, and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia. Anyone interested in these issues was welcome to join. The Consortium includes members from multiple countries, from both academic and non-academic research contexts. To gain the most benefit, members were expected to attend at least one meeting of the research group annually.