Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures is an online and open-access platform for speculating about possible futures. With both academic and artistic content, the journal encourages creative and interdisciplinary collaboration and non-traditional forms of knowledge production. Our goal is to foster a multi-faceted dialogue about visionary concepts in future-oriented speculative practice and policy among researchers, practitioners, artists, and communities in a way that amplifies voices often marginalized in depictions of potential futures. Polyfora recognizes that to speculate about possible futures is to intervene in and to shape futures, and thus maintains a commitment to multiplying possibilities, including platforming and amplifying those futures that are already emerging across the pluriverse. 

Polyfora has an interdisciplinary focus, and welcomes hybrid, experimental methodologies and speculative or non-academic knowledge production as imperative to breaking disciplinary silos, cultivating dialogue, and engaging communities in imagining futures. As such, the journal invites submissions of both academic content (peer-reviewed articles, reviews, think pieces) and popular content (fiction, art, multi-media works). With the goal of diversifying the range of perspectives, Polyfora welcomes submissions and special issue proposals in many languages.*

Polyfora is published once a year (with the possibility of an extra special issue) and welcomes proposals for guest-edited theme issues and smaller clusters (e.g., a group of 3-4 papers, or a combination of 1-2 papers, a short story or an artwork addressing a common theme). If you are interested in submitting your work/proposal or have a question, please contact the editors-in-chief.

Polyfora will be online first, open-access journal (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with articles published on the web platform: text as HTML (PDF for download) and media hosted on page (check media players).

* see language policy in Submission Guidelines here: https://journal.cofutures.org/submission-guidelines/

• Pioneering Futures Research: Polyfora aims to provide an accessible platform for pioneering research that explores visionary concepts in speculative futuring, reimagines established paradigms of research practices, and challenges the traditional boundaries of academic production.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Polyfora encourages complex interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and activists from diverse fields, including the humanities, arts, architecture, design, technology, philosophy, and the social sciences.
• Fostering Creative Research: Polyfora strives to foster creativity and supports the dissemination of experimental methodologies, speculative theories, and non-traditional research formats by practitioners at the forefront of their disciplines.
• Pluriversal Dialogue: Polyfora promotes polyphonal dialogues among researchers, practitioners, and artists worldwide about the future directions of knowledge and innovation in their respective fields. The journal aims, in particular, to foster conversations and collaborations in the Global South.
• Impactful Ideas: Polyfora aspires to be at the forefront of timely, relevant, and impactful research to help societies understand the implications of speculative futures thinking and practice for social life, ecological relations, ethical concerns, and technological innovation.