Per Molander, PhD., chairman of the Equality commission of the Swedish government.Abstract:How to build a sustainable welfare state, Nordic design How to build a sustainable welfare state, Nordic desig

Media, Culture & Society Abstract What are the new possibilities of enacting justice through the vast archives of digital eyewitness images and self-representations produced since 2011 by the grassr

Completed: How do human norms form and change?

Many societies are dominated by norms that are, in the long run, harmful to their members. How can these norms change?

International Journal of Educational Development Abstract Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using

Ethics and Information Technology Abstract So-called digital tracking and tracing systems (DTTSs) have been proposed as a means to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. There are ethical guidelines and eval

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory

Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.

If we wish to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse and equitable world, we urgently need a diversity of perspectives to imagine – and to build – better futures. The problems we face today arBased on experiments made at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, this presentation will show how positive futures can be prototyped to inspire change. Using key techniques, processes, methodologies, mindsets and tools, you too can become an active participant in shaping preferred futures!Welcome to a seminar with Marcela Sabino, a foresight strategist, creative director and innovation designer.This seminar is organized by Positive Future and is free upon registration. .

How economics can save the world

Book launch for How Economics Can Save the World (Penguin, 2023) by Erik Angner, professor of practical philosophy and PhD in economics. Economics has always been shadowed by a movement that has been c

Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese

Gustaf Arrhenius, Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, is known for his research on our moral obligations to future generations and on issues in democratic theory. On November th