Integral Futures: An approach to futures inquiry

An Other View of Integral Futures : De / reconstructing the IF Brand

This paper points to some limitations of the narrow version of integral futures (IF) as represented in the recent special issue of Futures (2008, Vol 40, Issue 2). I also propose several ways that the IF brand could be refreshed through a broader and deeper approach to integral futures by way of a scholarly engagement with other kindred discourses. The main focus of this paper is to open out be...

INTEGRAL SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT Introducing an AQAL Root Questions Method By Chris C Stewart

Scenario planning is one of the most widespread futures methodologies in use. A generic aim of scenario planning, as with many Futures Studies methodologies, is to broaden and deepen perceptual filters so as to find new and relevant meaning in 'weak signals from the future.' Integral Studies is an emerging field of meta-theory that attempts to meaningfully relate as many disciplines of human kn...

Not-So-Integral Futures

In this paper I review some notable occurrences at the November 2005 conference Global Soul, Global Mind, and Global Action at Tamkang University. I note the further development of integral and post-conventional futures studies, and ask whether Integral Futures is as integral as it claims to be, based on the events at that conference. I conclude that there is a need for Integral Futures practit...

An Integral extension of causal layered analysis

Causal layered analysis (CLA) is a futures method developed by Sohail Inayatullah and since applied by numerous futurists across multiple content areas. The central assumption of CLA is that there are different levels of reality and ways of knowing; beneath the popular conceptions of an issue (the litany) and more academic analysis of systemic causes are deep worldview commitments, discourses, ...

A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight & Trialogues