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Social Futures

Canada is a diverse and dynamic country. What do ongoing changes in Canadian society mean for the future of our relationships, families, communities, and institutions? Can new advances in sciences and the humanities provide insight into social trust and connection?

Reports

Exploring Change in Social Connection

February 22, 2023

Future Lives

June 1, 2022

The Future of Sense-Making

May 29, 2021

Exploring Social Futures

March 20, 2020

Videos

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Labour | Future lives

June 15, 2022

Care | Future lives

June 15, 2022

Reproduction | Future lives

June 15, 2022

Older Adulthood | Future lives

June 15, 2022

Education | Future lives

June 15, 2022

Living arrangements | Future lives

June 15, 2022
Text reads

Futures Week 2021: The future of social connection

July 30, 2021

Four areas of change in sense-making

June 28, 2021

Blog Posts

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Citizenship in Canada

Future of citizenship

March 11, 2020

Exploring social futures: An ongoing journey

March 6, 2020

Social Epigenetics: How Your Early Life Environment Gets “Under Your Skin”

November 14, 2019

Further Reading

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General

Families and Children in the Next System

Working paper

John de Graaf, The Next System Project

November 11, 2018

Government Trends 2020

Report

The Deloitte Center for Government Insights

June 24, 2019

Global Trends to 2035: Economy and Society

Study

Global Trends Unit, European Parliamentary Research Service

November 2018

Human Progress and Human Services 2035: A Scenario Exploration

Report

Institute for Alternative Futures

September 2018

Inequalities and social progress in the future

Article

Marc Fleurbaey and Stephan Klasen, World Social Science Report 2016

2016

Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress

Report

International Panel on Social Progress

July 2018

New Thinking for the British Economy

Book

openDemocracy

2018

Trust/2030

Report

Hitachu x Method

2018

Navigating System Transition in a Volatile Century

Paper

Michael T. Lewis, The Next System Project

April 18, 2017

The Story of Our Times: shifting power, bridging divides, transforming society

Report

Civil Society Futures

November 2018

Arts, Media, and Leisure

Culture is Digital

Policy paper

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

September 18, 2019

The Arts in a Digital World

Report

The Canada Council for the Arts

February 21, 2017

The future of leisure

White paper

Legal & General Investment Management, Real Assets

2018

Climate Change

The Just Transition Issue

Magazine

Briarpatch

May/June 2019

Social futures of global climate change: A structural phenomenology

Article

John R. Hall, American Journal of Cultural Sociology

February 2016

Towards a New, Green Economy

Research paper

Tim Jackson & Peter A. Victor, The Next System Project

November 3, 2016

Education and Learning

Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation

Report

Global Education Futures Report

April 26, 2018

The Future of Education

Report

Center for Digital Technology and Management

December 8, 2015

Trends Shaping Education 2019

Book

OECD

January 21, 2019

Family and Homelife

The Future of Families to 2030

Report

OECD

December 22, 2011

Families and children in the next system

Working paper

John de Graaf, The Next System Project

November 11, 2018

What Future for the Family?

Article

Neel Burton, Psychology Today

August 1, 2017

Global Relations

The Future of Global Governance: Fragmentation May Be Inevitable and Creative

Research Article

Amitav Acharya, Global Governance 22

August 19, 2016

Hybrid Conflict and the Future European Security Environment

Report

Danny Pronk, Clingendael Institute

September 2018

The Next Generation of Emerging Global Challenges

Report

Policy Horizons Canada

October 19, 2018

Governance

How to make governance fit for the future: 7 lessons from innovators

Article

Milica Begovic, Joost Beunderman, and Indy Johar, Apolitical

February 20, 2019

Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term

Article

Roman Krznaric, BBC Future

March 18, 2019

Strengthening Democracy by Design: Challenges and Opportunities

Report

Nancy L. Thomas & J. Kyle Upchurch, Journal of Public Deliberation

2018

Health

Future of Health

Report

QuantumRun

January 13, 2016

The future of public health

Report

RAND Europe

2013

Public Heath 3.0: A Blueprint For The Future Of Public Health

Article

Karen DeSalvo & Georges Benjamin, Health Affairs Blog

November 21, 2016

Local Communities

Future of Cities

Report

Future Agenda

2017

Thriving amid turbulence: Imagining the cities of the future

Article

Joe Frem, Vineet Rajadhyaksha, and Jonathan Woetzel, McKinsey & Company

October 2018

Rural challenges, national opportunity

Report

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

May 2018

Values and Public Opinion

Ipsos CanadaNext

Report

Ipsos

May 2018

Canada: Pulling together or drifting apart?

Report

The Environics Institute for Survey Research

April 2019

Making federalism work: Leadership, trust & collaboration

Report

The Environics Institute For Survey Research

June 2019

What makes us Canadian? A study of values, beliefs, priorities and identity

Report

The Angus Reid Institute

October 3, 2016

Keystone Texts

Modern Social Imaginaries

Book

Charles Taylor

December 2003

How Societies Remember

Book

Paul Connerton

August 2010

Publics and Counterpublics

Book

Michael Warner

May 2002

Remediation: Understanding New Media

Book

Jay David Bolter & Richard Grusin

October 1998

A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

Book

Manuel DeLanda

September 2006

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