The Future Horizons

Futures research

Adapting from the Futures Toolkitof the Government Office for Science, the research team identified three horizons for Youth Work: Horizon 1 (H1), Horizon 2 (H2) and Horizon 3 (H3). The current situation and near future within the youth work field are referred to as Horizon 1 (H1). H1 represents the elements that are strategically crucial…

The foresight approach

Futures research

The ‘Futures of Youth Work’ project employed foresight methods originating from the field of future studies. In most general terms, futures studies ‘collect and analyse signals and trends from the past and the present, to create scenarios about probable, possible or desirable Futures’.   Although the discipline was developed in the 20th century, it is…