Dr. Cynthia Selin
  Dr. Cynthia Selin
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    • Climate Design
    • Energizing Futures
    • Oxford Futures Forum >
      • Future Things Exhibition
    • Futurescape City Tours >
      • Finding Futures
    • Serious Play: Social and Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology
    • Emerge >
      • Making Sense of Emerge
      • Redesigning the Future Exhibition
    • Plausibility Project
    • Solar to Fuels
    • National Citizens Technology Forum
    • City of Phoenix
  • Writing
  • Consulting
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Peer reviewed journal articles
Nelson, JP*,  C. Selin & C. T. Scott. 2021. “Toward anticipatory governance of human genome editing: a critical review of scholarly governance discourse” Journal of Responsible Innovation.

Andersen, PA, Hansen, M. & C. Selin. 2021. “Stakeholder inclusion in scenario planning—A review of European projects.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change (169)
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Selin, C.  KC Rawlings, K de-Ridder-Vignone, J. Sadowski, C. Altamirano Allende, G. Gano, S. Davies and D. Guston. 2017. "Experiments in Engagement: Designing PEST for Capacity Building." Public Understanding of Science. 

Hannah, D. & C. Selin. 2016. "Unseasonal Fashion: A Manifesto." The Avery Review: Critical Essays in Architecture.

Selin, C., Kimbell, L., Ramirez, R, & Y. Bhatti. 2015. "Scenarios and Design: Scoping the Dialogue Space." Futures, 74: 4-17.

Selin, C. 2015.
“Merging art and design in foresight: Making sense of Emerge”
Futures, 70: ,24-35.

Davies, S. et al.2015. “Studying Emerge: Findings from an Event Ethnography.” Futures, 70: 75-85


Altamirano-Allende, C. & Selin, C. 2015. "Seeing the city: photography as a place of work." Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-10.


Selin, C. 2014. “On Not Forgetting Futures.” Journal for Responsible Innovation, 1(1): 103-108.

Ramírez, R. and C. Selin. 2014. “Plausibility and probability in scenario planning.” foresight, 16(1): 54 – 74.

Selin, C. & A. Pereira. 2013. “Pursuing Plausibility.” Int. J. of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 9 (2/3/4): 93 – 109.

Wiek, A., D. Guston, S. van der Leeuw, C. Selin & P. Shapira. 2013. “The Nano-Enhanced City: Sustainability Challenges and Anticipatory Governance.” Journal of Urban Technology, 20(2): 45-62.

Davies, S. R., C. Selin, G. Gano, A. G. Pereira. 2013. “Finding Futures: A Spatio-Visual Experiment in Participatory Engagement.” Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 46(1): 76-77.

Davies, S. R., C. Selin, G. Gano, A. G. Pereira. 2012. “Citizen Engagement and Urban Change: Three Case Studies of Material Deliberation.” Cities, 29(6): 351-357.

Davies, S. & Selin, C. 2012. "Energy Futures: Five Dilemmas of the Practice of Anticipatory Governance.” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(1): 119-136.

Selin, C. 2011. “Negotiating Plausibility: Intervening in the Future of Nanotechnology.” Science and Engineering Ethics, 17(4): 723-737.

Selin, C. & P. Boradkar. 2010. “Prototyping Nanotechnology: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Responsible Innovation.” Journal of Nano Education, 2 (1-2): 1-12.

Selin, C & Hudson, R. 2010. “Envisioning Nanotechnology: New Media and Future-Oriented Stakeholder Dialogue.” Technology in Society, 32 (3): 173-182.

Selin, C. 2008. “Sociology of the Future: Tracing Stories of Technology and Time.” Sociology Compass, 2 (60): 1875-1895.

Selin, C. 2007. “Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology.” Science, Technology and Human Values, 32 (2): 196-220.

Selin, C. 2006. “Time Matters: Temporal Harmony and Dissonance in Nanotechnology Networks.” Time & Society, 15 (1): 121-139.

Selin, C.  2006. “Trust and the Illusive Force of Scenarios.” Futures 38 (1): 1-14.



Book Chapters

Withycombe-Keller, L., M. Bernstein & C. Selin. 2019. “Intervening through Futures for Sustainable Presents: Scenarios, Sustainability and Responsible Research and Innovation.” In Grunwald, A. A Losch, M. Meister & I. Schulz-Schaeffer (eds) Socio-technical Futures Shaping the Present. Springer. 255-282.

Selkirk, K., C. Selin & U. Felt. 2018. “A Festival of Futures: Recognizing and Reckoning Temporal Complexity in Foresight. Handbook of Anticipation: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of the Use of Future in Decision Making, Springer.

Withycombe-Keller, L., M. Berstein & C. Selin. “Intervening through Futures for Sustainable Presents: Scenarios, Sustainability and Responsible Research and Innovation.” In Socio-technical Futures Shaping the Present: Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges in Social Studies of Science and Technology Assessment. Springer. 


Selin, C. & J. Sadowski. 2015. “Against Blank Slate Futuring: Noticing Obduracy in the City through Experiential Methods of Public Engagement.” in Kearnes, M. & J. Chilvers (eds). Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emerging Publics. New York: Routledge.

Selin, C. & G. Gano. 2015. “Seeing Differently: Enticing Reflexivity through Mediated Participation in Place in the Futurescape City Tours.” in Gubrium, A. and K. Harper (eds). Engaging Participatory Visual and Digital Methods. Left Coast Press.

Selin, C. 2014. “Finding Futures: Experiments with Experiential Future-Oriented Dialogue.” In Pereira, A and Wakeford, T. (Eds.) Communicating For Social Change: A Handbook For Researchers. [In press].

Selin, C. 2011. “Travails, Travels, and Trials:  Report from the SNET Roundtable on Plausibility.”  In Zülsdorfet al (eds.)  Quantum Engagements: Social Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. Heidelberg: AKA GmbH.

Barben, D. Fisher, E., Selin, C., & Guston, D. 2008. “Anticipating Nanotechnology: Governance, Engagement, and Reflexivity.” In Hackett, E. J., Amsterdamska, O., Lynch, M. & Wajcman, J. (Eds.). The New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. MIT Press.

Selin, C.  2007. “Professional Dreamers: The Past in the Future of Scenario Planning.” In Sharpe, B. & van der Heijden, K. Scenarios for Success: Turning Insight into Action. London: Wiley

Selin, C.  2003. “The Art and Science of Scenario Planning.” Danish Anthology on Research Management. Aarhus, DK: Danish Institute for Studies in Research and Research Policy: 126-134.


Books

Hannah, D., J. Eschrich, B. Cooper and C. Selin. (Eds.) 2018. A Year Without a Winter. Columbia University Press. 

Wetmore, J., Fisher, E., and Selin, C. (Eds.) 2008. Presenting Futures: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society. New York: Springer.

Selin, C. 2006. Volatile Visions: Transactions in Anticipatory Knowledge. Copenhagen, Denmark: Samfundslitteratur.


Other Works

Selin, C et al. 2020. PGET Scenarios Report. Arizona State University, Baylor College of Medicine.

Selin, C. and S. Wasserman*. 2019. Open Positioning of Futures Workshop Report. Center for the Study of Futures, Arizona State University.

Wasserman, S., L. Lambert & C. Selin. Future Design: Exploring Affirmative Futures Through an Intergenerational Outlook. White Paper, Center for the Study of Futures, Arizona State University.


Selin, C & J. Banks. 2014. Futurescape City Tours: A Novel Method for Public Engagement. Center for Nanotechnology in Society

Selin, C. 2011. Gaming the Future. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Report # R11-0003.

Selin, C. 2011. Scoping Anticipation: A Select Review of Futures Research and Education Programs. Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University.            

Davies, S., Selin, C. & Allen, R.* 2010. Solar to Fuels: Interdisciplinary Energy, Policy and Society Workshop. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Report #R10-0002.

Wiek, A. and Selin, C. 2009. The Future of Phoenix- Crafting Sustainable Development Strategies for Phoenix. School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. 

Selin, C. 2008. The Future of Medical Diagnostics. Scenario Workshop Report. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Report #R08-0001.

Selin, C. 2008. CNS Visioning Workshop:  Creating Scenarios about the Future of Anticipatory Governance. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Report #R08-0003.

Miller, C. A., D. H. Guston, D. Barben, J. Wetmore, C. Selin and E. Fisher. 2007. Nanotechnology and Society: Ideas for Education and Public Engagement. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Report #R07-0001


future-oriented scholar and practitioner