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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

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SIM

1974: Images and Imagination: Promising Pathways for Multimodal Research on the Future (18526)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024
09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Fairmont: Embassy Room
Session Number: 1974
Symposium (panel)
Orientation: International,Theme,Research,Diversity
Showcase Symposium
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In an increasingly complex world, coping with an uncertain future is becoming one of the key challenges facing scholarship and practitioners alike. From future-making to vision rhetoric, literature has introduced and reinvigorated a plethora of concepts to explain how imagined futures come about and how they become performative for organizational strategies, policy intervention, or environmental and social movements. It has also amassed a wealth of different non-verbal and multimodal means through which imagined futures are both envisioned and enabled: from sketches, charts, and timelines to AI- generated images or materialized prototypes. Despite growing interest in the use of visual, material, or spatial modes—as well as their combinations as multimodal means—emerging insights into their role for research on the future remain fragmented. This panel symposium aims to identify and spur conversations among different approaches, and sketch promising ways for non-verbal and multimodal research on the future going forward. By engaging an expert group of panelists, it seeks to initiate a debate among different approaches about what kinds of different non-verbal and multimodal approaches are out there, what qualities they each offer, and how their consideration can advance our conceptual understanding of imagining and championing action for imagined futures.