ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to place heritage in dialogue with some of these other fields, introducing a range of concepts and theoretical stances to illustrate the degree of attention that has already been given to the topic of the future within them. It suggests that these fields might themselves benefit from heritage developing its own, distinct stance towards the future, one that is able to think about how changing things can still persist over time. The chapter focuses on two related clusters of work that have each developed tools and resources for considering the nature of the future and what it might contain, and for making visible the relation between society and the future. Strategic foresight represents a way of relating to the future that, while far from mainstream, has a place within governments and in organisations, and is part of the way that actors within those groups form their ideas of the future.
