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Everyday Futures is a theme that unites a diversity of people from academia, industry, government and non-governmental institutions around similar interests in researching future everyday life and how it gets shaped. The network has a listserv to share information between members. Relevant events in which members are involved are also announced on this website.

Photo: participants of the Making Everyday Futures workshop held at Eindhoven University of Technology in July 2017

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Everyday futures does not yet exist as an established field, but we believe it is an area worthy of exploration. Futures of work, future homes, city futures and energy futures all make assumptions about, and have far reaching implications for everyday lives that are seldom explored. Studying such assumptions can provide insight on how ideas of ‘a normal life’ and ‘the good life’ are made, materialized and performed. It can reveal the connections and contradictions between futures of multiple types and scales. Moreover, a focus on the everyday has the potential to reveal some realities overlooked in broad future visions, including the inequalities which such visions, strategies and plans tend to (re)produce. Everyday lives vary across generations and across the life-course, across time and space, across the seasons, and across cultures and countries of the world. We think that finding methods and processes of future-making that are capable of capturing these differences, and forms of analysis that explore how they are made in the first place, is an area ripe for development.