scholarly journals Future Design as a Metacognitive Intervention for Presentism

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7552
Author(s):  
Yoshinori Nakagawa ◽  
Tatsuyoshi Saijo
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Temporal Reference ◽  
Future Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
Future Selves ◽  
Metacognitive Intervention ◽  
Imaginary Future Generation

Many serious problems occur due to conflicts between the interests of the present generation and the welfare of future generations, and thus, the actions of the preset generation may be a consequence of presentism. Drawing on the theoretical framework of metacognition, the present study investigates how presentism can be overcome through future design interventions that incorporate an imaginary future generation setting. Four workshop participants were interviewed, and transcripts of the interviews were made. There were two major findings. First, we identified narratives in the responses of participants that suggest that metacognition was active during the workshops concerning the two cognitions governed by present and future selves. Second, the narratives identified above were classified into two categories, and the two corresponding roles of metacognition were identified: the monitoring and controlling function and the harmonizing function. The former is essential for the acquisition of identity as a future person; the latter is essential for reconciling this future identity with the identity of the person in the present. The present study proposes that future design is a tool that can be used to intervene in the metacognition of individuals concerning how one chooses a temporal reference point from which to view the past, present, and future of society rather than a tool to naively motivate individuals to care for future generations.

scholarly journals Summary of pottery development to knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Uzzi Festus Osarumwense ◽  
Edem Peters
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractPottery has been defined and redefined by many scholars of history and anthropologist. Pottery is wrapped in the past with no written record; this study intends to work on the historical analysis of form, style and techniques of Pottery tradition, the various pottery associations in Nigeria will be identified and discussed. The study will also examine the symbolic meaning of each of the traditions, it will also project the aesthetic qualities, and the effects of new ideas of pottery of the indigenous Benin people, and how pottery is interpreted/ the study hopes to compile and analyze forms of pottery that will rekindle interest in pottery, and serve as reference point for the future generation. Keyword: pottery, summary, development, knowledge.

scholarly journals Effects of experiencing the role of imaginary future generations in decision-making: a case study of participatory deliberation in a Japanese town

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keishiro Hara ◽  
Yoko Kitakaji ◽  
Hiroaki Sugino ◽  
Ritsuji Yoshioka ◽  
Hiroyuki Takeda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Intergenerational Conflict ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Imaginary Future Generation ◽  
Clear Shift

AbstractTo ensure sustainability, overcoming intergenerational conflict is vital, and social systems supporting decision-making that takes into account the benefits to future generations is thus critically important. One promising approach in such social systems is introducing “imaginary future generations” who act as representatives for the benefits of future generation in actual, present-day decision-making situations. In this study, we explore the effects and implications of participants’ experiences as representatives of imaginary future generation. We conducted a citizens’ participatory debate on creating a vision and appropriate policies associated with public facilities and housing in a town in Japan, and examined how the thinking patterns and decisions of the participants shifted as a result of debating from the perspectives of both current and imaginary future generations. Based on analyses of a questionnaire and the keywords in answers to a worksheet provided to the participants, we demonstrate that through their experiences as representatives of imaginary future generations, a clear shift in perspective occurred, with increases in self-reflective viewpoint. We also found that the shared viewpoints of the current and future generations existed within the individuals. These findings hint at how we can develop institutions and social systems that facilitate sustainable decision-making.

Intergenerational Equity and Responsibility for Future Generations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kotaro Suzumura
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Large Share ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The Future

Why should the present generation be held responsible for the sustainable well-being of future generations, especially since past generations must bear some large share of the cause of global warming? This chapter describes the principle that all generations irrespective of when they emerged in the past or will emerge in the future should have equal opportunity to lead worthwhile lives of their choice. It assesses several alternatives including assigning voting rights to the very young and setting aside these alternatives as on balance unsatisfactory or unworkable. On the principle of responsibility and compensation, the chapter proposes that the present generation must either abate global warming or compensate future generations. It explains and defends why this one-sided, external, and irrevocable choice of the present generation is the only sensible and moral alternative for addressing intergenerational equity.

scholarly journals Graded (metric) tenses in embedded clauses: The case of South Baffin Inuktitut

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midori Hayashi ◽  
David Yoshikazu Oshima
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Subordinate Clause ◽  
Temporal Reference ◽  
The Past ◽  
Embedded Clauses ◽  
Temporal Direction ◽  
Do So

This work discusses how tenses in South Baffin Inuknitut (SBI; the Eskimo-Aleut family), which are associated with remoteness specifications, are interpreted in embedded clauses. In SBI dependent clauses, the reference point forremoteness specifications may be, but is not necessarily, relativized (shifted) to a time other than external “now”. For example, while the hodiernal past (marked by suffix -qqau) designates the day of utterance as its domain of coverage, it may not do so in a subordinate clause. Whether an embedded tense may and must be relativized with regard to remoteness depends on four factors: (i) whether the embedded tense is relativized with regard to temporal direction (the past-present-future opposition), (ii) what the type of the subordinate clause is, (iii) what the tense of the superordinate clause is, and (iv) what the tense of the subordinate clause is. The findings suggest that tense systems across languages may contrast not only with respect to under what circumstances shifting of the directional temporal reference point takes place, but also with respect to under what circumstances shifting of the reference point fortemporal remoteness takes place.

SINGING THE SECOND CHIMURENGA (WAR OF LIBERATION): AN AFROCENTRIC ELUCIDATION OF SIMON CHIMBETU’S SELECTED SONGS

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
Allan T Maganga ◽  
Charles Tembo ◽  
Peterson Dewah
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Liberation Struggle ◽  
Past Experiences

Oral sources such as proverbs, songs and folktales have been used to reconstruct people’s identities. As a primary ‘means of communication’ music is often used to capture or record peoples’ experiences in history. In Zimbabwe, Simon Chimbetu exemplifies one musician who is in search of his country’s past in as far as he uses his music to record the history of the liberation struggle. This paper provides an in-depth examination of Chimbetu’s selected songs. Singing after the war itself is over, it is argued, the music functions as a reference point to the citizens because it is a transcript of their past experiences something which is essential to the present and future generations. By insisting on educating his audiences on the liberation struggle, Chimbetu satisfies Sankofan approach. It is argued in this paper that Chimbetu’s musical reflections provide enriching experiences and reveals that it is historical music.

The Future of the Planetary Trust in a Kaleidoscopic World

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Edith Brown Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Shared Goal

Today, it is evident that we are part of a planetary trust. Conserving our planet represents a public good, global as well as local. The threats to future generations resulting from human activities make applying the normative framework of a planetary trust even more urgent than in the past decades. Initially, the planetary trust focused primarily on threats to the natural system of our human environment such as pollution and natural resource degradation, and on threats to cultural heritage. Now, we face a higher threat of nuclear war, cyber wars, and threats from gene drivers that can cause inheritable changes to genes, potential threats from other new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and possible pandemics. In this context, it is proposed that in the kaleidoscopic world, we must engage all the actors to cooperate with the shared goal of caring for and maintaining planet Earth in trust for present and future generations.

scholarly journals ARE THERE OBLIGATIONS WITHOUT RIGHTS?

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Heller
Keyword(s):  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Negative Sense ◽  
Prospective Responsibility ◽  
Present Understanding

In all command-obedience relations of asymmetric reciprocity, obligations or rather duties do not go normally with corresponding rights. There are no rights related to such relationships, at least not in the present  understanding of the word “right”, since they are prerogatives. But there are obligations based on morals, if not on rights, also in relations of  asymmetric reciprocity. Only in a relation of symmetric reciprocity do rights appear as foundations (archai) for claims, both in a positive, and in a  negative sense. We have obligations to future generations, even  responsibilities for living up to those obligations, but future generations cannot have rights. There is not, and cannot be, symmetric reciprocity between us and any future generation, in fact no reciprocity at all; there are obligations without corresponding rights.The cases of prospective responsibility, of being in charge, also implies obligations irrespective of the circumstance whether the parties towards whom we have obligations are the bearers of rights or not. Intergenerational justice does not presuppose extant rights whereas potential rights are just projections or metaphors with little relevance, for they are not binding.

Monotreme and marsupial reproduction

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
MB Renfree
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reproductive Processes

Marsupials were regarded as curiosities by their early European discoverers, animals to be wondered at. Monotremes were even more surprising; the platypus was such an amalgam of characters that it was thought to be a hoax. They were recognized very early as mammals that could make a major contribution to our understanding of reproductive processes, and work on marsupials at the turn of the century was much in evidence. It is, however, only in the past two decades, and especially in the past few years that marsupial research has regained this position. There is no doubt that future research will strengthen this contribution, but we are faced with serious conservation questions that must be solved if we are to maintain these wonderful animals as a resource for future generations.

Aristotle’s New Clothes: Mechanistic Readings of the Master Teleologist

Apeiron ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Berryman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Generation

Abstract Aristotle has traditionally been cast as the arch-enemy of all things mechanistic. Given the dichotomy long thought to exist between mechanistic and teleological schools of thought, there is a satisfying irony in discovering veins of apparently ‘mechanistic’ thought within the work of the definitive teleologist. Several waves of scholarship in the past century have argued, from different angles, for mechanistic interpretations of Aristotle’s natural philosophy. The present generation is no exception: in the last decade, Jean De Groot, Monte Johnson, and Tiberiu Popa have variously argued that a mechanistic vein can be found in Aristotle’s work, despite his undeniable teleological credentials. This paper explores the assumptions—some of them open to question—that accompany such advocacy. It will urge some terminological refinements, and turn a skeptical lens on some aspects of these projects. Nonetheless, it will stress that they open promising lines of inquiry, avoiding some of the limitations of earlier ventures into this territory.

STEM for All on the SS Freshspring: VR Tour

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashim Yaqub ◽  
Martin Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Virtual Tour ◽  
The Past ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Interactive 3D

Over the past year the world has changed dramatically. With greater restrictions on accessibility, the need to provide innovative and distributable remote experiences is now more prominent than ever. BMT has partnered with the SS Freshspring Trust to create multi-generational STEM experiences. “Preserving the past to inspire knowledge for the future”. The SS Freshspring Trust have a vision to become a STEM hub by utilising cutting-edge technology. BMT have extensive experience in developing VR applications in the Maritime Domain. With skills shortfalls in many engineering disciplines, there is a need to inspire future generations into careers in STEM. Equally, many adults have a passion for technology and have valuable skills to offer to STEM projects. This paper uses the historic vessel SS Freshspring, a 1940s RFA Fresh Water Carrier currently being restored in North Devon, as the basis for exploring a range of initiatives and activities aimed at making engineering and technology interesting and accessible to all. The specific focus is on the development of an interactive 3D virtual tour, aiming to provide access to a wide audience by targeting a range of modalities including smartphones, internet browsers, and most consumer VR headsets.

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