FUTURES Hub launches ‘City Futures report’
The Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab’s FUTURES Hub, has just released its City Futures report- a set of dominant visions for Australian cities of the future.
In this report we identify and demonstrate: a set of 5 trends which describe the forces that are shaping city futures; and 14 claims that describe how cities are likely to respond to those trends. Together these trends and claims constitute dominant visions for future Australian cities, and are derived from a review of 64 industry reports, policy, planning, and strategy documents. Alongside these trends and claims we have also identified a set of complications, drawn from existing social science research that highlight how everyday life experiences, actions and processes might disrupt these trends and claims.
"This report offers unique insight into how the futures of Australia's cities are imagined in 2050, and the opportunity for people to play an active role in those expected futures."
Dr. Robert Lundberg
The insights delivered in this report forms part of a wider programme of research led by Monash University’s FUTURES Hub which will build on and investigate these complications to deliver new knowledge about future everyday life in cities, and its role in Australia's digital and net zero transition, including plausible visions of future Australian cities.
Read the City Futures report.
Acknowledgements and funding
We would like to thank Emerging Technologies Lab colleagues for their advice and existing exemplary work in producing similar reports: Dr Fareed Kaviani, Dr Kari Dalghren, Dr Emma Quilty, Professor Yolande Strengers. Extended thanks to the FUTURES Hub team research fellow Dr Melisa Duque, PhD candidates Zane Pinyon, Yuzhe Zhu for their weekly team meetings reflections. Bianca Vallentine and Hatoun Ibrahim for their contributions with the report design and layout. This project is funded by ARC Laureate Fellowship FL230100131.
Contact: robert.lundberg@monash.edu