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The evaluation reported in this article explores the impacts and adaptability of Futures Frequency, a workshop method for futures thinking. The method is intended to improve participants' abilities to imagine alternative futures and initiate actions toward preferred futures, thereby enhancing futures thinking and change‐making skills. The evaluation framework is rooted in the approach of developmental...
Focusing on and supporting the integration of two overlapping but siloed disciplines is an exciting but uncertain endeavor. We can anticipate ambiguity in that it is an exploratory activity, as well as novelty in that we don't know exactly where we are going until we get there. However, we are sure it is worth the effort. As evidenced by the papers in this volume, evaluation and futures studies are...
Evaluators widely utilize theory of change or impact pathway approaches to design and evaluate interventions. In research settings, there is increasing demand for ex ante impact pathways that are place‐based, coherent, and plausible, in order to foster more impactful interventions. Foresight approaches, which enable a collaborative, structured, and systematic way to anticipate, prepare, and affect...