A JOURNEY TO THE FUTURE

Drawing on the author's experience as a geographer town planner and no w futurist, an eclectic mix of approaches to and theories of the futur e, many of which are more implicit than explicit, is developed Among t he mast important are aspects of systems, chaos, and complexity theori es. Two important concepts-paradox and a learning approach-provide imp ortant themes to the future. These ideas are summed up in the philosop hy of the master's degree in foresight and futures studies at Leeds Me tropolitan University.