Nationality
Italy
Roberto Poli is part of the 2014 1st Semester, 2016 1st Semester, and 2019 1st Semester cohorts at STIAS.
Projects
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Anticipation. How Individuals and Communities Use the Future
The future is incorporated into all phenomena, conscious or unconscious, physical or ideational, as anticipation, from those forms of anticipation that are observed, for instance, in a tree that loses its leaves in the Autumn to human planning that colonizes the future inspired by imaginary futures. -
Complexity and Anticipation
Complexity is possibly the most relevant scientific idea that emerged during the past decades. -
The Anticipatory Perspective: What Next?
An anticipatory behavior is a behavior that ‘uses’ the future in its actual decision process.
Related to Roberto Poli
Event
STIAS Lecture Series 2014: Roberto Poli - Anticipation: Using the Future for Understanding the Present
Please note the new venue for the STIAS lectures Professor Roberto Poli,Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, and STIAS Fellow, will present a talk with the title: Anticipation: Using the Future for Understanding the Present Abstract All efforts to ‘know the future’, thinking about and using the future are forms of anticipation, which has always been an important element of human behaviour.
Publication
Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Vol. 1)
Poli, Roberto. 2017. Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Vol. 1). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007978-3-319-63023-6