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First Post: Project Provisional Aims

This project emerged in January 2007 after discussions at the AusForesight 2006 conference about practitioner standards and communication/media strategies. Its provisional aims are to:

• Provide information on Futures Studies & Strategic Foresight for a pragmatic audience in a salon-type format similar to John Brockman's Edge and the popular blog/zine BoingBoing.

• Document how a Strategic Foresight community of practice (initially comprised of alumnus from Swinburne University's MSSF program) engages in researcher and practitioner work, and to capture their expertise.

• Explore how interviews that use dialogue---such as the practices developed by MIT's Society for Organisational Learning and philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend---can reveal the breadth-depth, integral, meta-disciplinary and different epistemologies/ontologies of Futures Studies & Strategic Foresight.

• Experiment with Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and podcasts to communicate Futures Studies & Strategic Foresight to a diverse global audience.

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