Colloquium explores the role of anticipation as an alternative way to engage with the future and complex problems.
Current economic and political crises are characterized by unsolvable, complex problems. In the effort to try and come up with workable solutions to these crises, the notion of anticipation is increasingly at the heart of urgent contemporary debates.
At the recent Anticipation: Complexity And The Future colloquium jointly organised by the Centre for Studies in Complexity (CSC) and the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), in Stellenbosch, South Africa, presenters explored how the notion of anticipation is coming to the foreground as an emerging field of study. From the variety of presenters at the colloquium, it became clear that an in-depth understanding of how the future can be anticipated to be part of the present, is influencing a diversity of disciplines as societies become less confident that traditional methods will provide effective models by which to understand and engage with complexity.
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For videos of the presentations, please follow these links:
Opening remarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQH7Tsy12E
Anticipation: Using the future for understanding the present
Prof Roberto Poli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52NGieUd1oU
Modelling anticipatory systems à la Robert Rosen
Prof Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlKfs1aefZ0
Complexity thinking and negotiating ethical decision making for the future
Dr Rika Preiser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wyg30qDJ34
Horizon scanning and other examples of using the future to understand
the present in Africa
Tanja Hichert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjqQ33Mm4E
Is long-wave theory useful for anticipating sustainable futures?
Prof Mark Swilling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcfHwF8bppw
