Futures Glossary
The Futures Glossary is a multilingual collaborative collection of key terms frequently used in the futures field. The project emerged from a collective intelligence process involving more than twenty practitioners, scholars, and researchers from diverse disciplinary traditions and cultural contexts. Its purpose is to make visible the similarities and differences in meaning that arise when futures-related concepts move across languages, cultures, and practices. Each entry in the glossary is the outcome of a comparative process that brings together different linguistic and interpretive perspectives. In this sense, the glossary is not merely a compilation of terms, but a space for exploring the role of language in how societies and individuals imagine, discuss, and engage with the future. … The Futures Glossary is a multilingual collaborative collection of key terms frequently used in the futures field. The project emerged from a collective intelligence process involving more than twenty practitioners, scholars, and researchers from diverse disciplinary traditions and cultural contexts. Its purpose is to make visible the similarities and differences in meaning that arise when futures-related concepts move across languages, cultures, and practices. Each entry in the glossary is the outcome of a comparative process that brings together different linguistic and interpretive perspectives. In this sense, the glossary is not merely a compilation of terms, but a space for exploring the role of language in how societies and individuals imagine, discuss, and engage with the future. This page makes the results of this work accessible and opens them to dialogue with a broader community of practitioners, scholars, and people interested in understanding how language influences the way we think about change, uncertainty, and the possibilities of futures. By its nature, the project remains open: new terms, languages, perspectives, and uses can be proposed and discussed, guided by the principle that the future is not contained within a single vocabulary, but takes shape through the plurality of languages and cultures that think and speak about it.