| This PhD research will describe and analyze how professional futurists structure diffuse problems and how they reach agreement, despite and/or thanks to plurality (i.e. legitimacy of different perspectives). Previous studies have shown that dealing with plurality is problematic in the practice of future studies: because the future is unknown, different and often conflicting perspectives can be legitimate. A social constructivist approach implies that none of the perspectives can claim to have the right interpretation of the future and that none of the perspectives is more plausible than others. In short, for professional futurists dealing with plurality is a methodological challenge. |
