A growing body of clear and accessible qualitative futures knowledge is freely available, backed up by the scholarly integrity and peer review which ensures its quality and rigour. Report series have been carefully designed to communicate accessible findings to industry partners in energy, older-care, construction, mobilities, city and other sectors.40 Creative storytelling,41 comic strips, workshops,42 documentary films,43,44,45,46,47,48 exhibitions or speculative objects and online games49 have been developed. Often co-created with those at stake, these creative works make possible futures present and participatory in tangible and experiential forms, and have been shared across diverse audiences. These formats acknowledge the plurality of global South and North "futurisms" to be accounted for (for instance including feminist futures, Afrofuturism,50 posthumanism and environmental futures). Integrating social-science futures knowledge and theories makes visible the power relations and ethics of shaping futures with diverse communities.
Next steps involve bringing qualitative and quantitative knowledge into closer dialogue to deliver powerful new foresight for decision-makers to cite as the basis for action.
