Future perspectives

SLU Future Food has the task of working with a futures perspective. Among other things, we have chosen address long-term sustainability challenges for the food system in platform's overall activities.

We also want to:

1. Implement and analyze futures studies to create discussion and dialogue and to formulate research questions
2. Together with SLU's other future platforms, SLU researchers are offered to learn more about futures studies and the ability to critically review them with the aid of courses and meetings
3. Support SLU researchers in developing systems thinking
4. Better be able to present the importance of research results from different time perspectives, making them more palpable for decision makers

Futures studies

Futures studies are a science that always seeks dialogue: what options can be imagined? What is possible, desirable or threatening? The perspective of futures studies is of course long-term, by developing futures scenarios and futures reports we extend the view. The purpose of futures studies is not to establish truths or to predict the future. Instead, futures studies point to alternatives and provide the basis for discussion and action.