In this episode of Futures4Europe Conversations, Bianca Dragomir speaks with Nikos Kastrinos, who brings over 25 years of experience at the European Commission and more than 35 years of academic work in science, technology and innovation policy and foresight.
This conversation covers:
- What foresight does, at its best, and how it differs from other approaches
- Where the most difficult ethical tensions arise in foresight work
- How foresight can engage with sustainability in ways that open up different pathways
- The ways futures may be framed through techno-fixes
- How the use of AI tools is changing foresight practice, and what this requires from practitioners
- What it takes to do participatory foresight well
- What changes in practice could help foresight remain relevant in the next decade
