ABSTRACT
Although human beings spend a lot of their mental time thinking about the future, we seldom consider the nature of futures thinking itself. Yet the future is always and only a fiction, and the future we imagine shapes our understanding of reality and our sense of agency. Five interconnected principles are important for cocreating better futures: diversity, dialogue, experimentation, systems thinking, and futures framing. What follows is an overview of how each of these principles might be applied in practice using the example of global energy transition—an especially difficult challenge involving societal disruption and transformation and requiring new forms of collaboration and innovation.
