Society in need of transformation. Citizen-Foresight as a method to co-create urban future
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2016
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Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Filozofii UAM
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Abstract
The European Commission highlights that creating shared
values and democratic citizenship is a today’s requirement
to answer challenges of urbanization in Europe. The awareness
about the necessity of inclusion of vulnerable
groups such as elderly
or migrants is still a substantial deficit in research on inclusion.
As a matter of principle, future cannot be forecasted. The most
effective way to foresee future is to jointly shape it! The Participatory
Citizen-Foresight offers a neutral transformation-room and
multi-method coordination-
framework for detecting accessible
and tacit-knowledge for change. In co-creation citizens, experts
and Civil-Servants gain insights into complex interdependencies
allowing mutual learning and behavior in rehearsal for transition.
Society is in need of powerful, collective pictures serving self-confidence
and self-responsibility of citizens.
First, we describe the specific, participatory-foresight approach.
Second, we highlight preconditions for learning and societal
change based on constructivism and brain research. Third, we
show how this can work in reality by shortly outlining two Citizen-
Foresight cases with elderlies and, fourth, we derive selection-
criteria for methods aiming at transforming mental images,
maps and behaviour.
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demographic change, participatory-foresight, citizen-foresight, societal-change
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2016, Tom 5, Nr 2, s. 51-72.