On the Horizon: a Creative Exploration of Contemporary Trends in Canadian Social Cohesion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Creativity is performed in ways that are not consistently recognized. This research project explores the intersection of creativity and socio-political contexts by demonstrating creative practices used in strategic foresight and future studies. This exploration reinitiates conversations about social cohesion and suggests that there may be emerging creative economies and new domains for creative professionals to occupy. This study consolidates public conversations between September and December 2024. Signals of change are summarized by nine trends, which are described individually and by a Futures Triangle. Social cohesion is about building group dynamics and meaning between people and their environments. This report provides early insight into possibilities for the future of social cohesion in Canada. To come together in the future, Canadians must consider taking non-partisan and integrative approaches to public administration and collective action, building relationships among citizens, creating awareness of present actions on future generations, adjusting demand for goods and services, and behaving better together. While a more cohesive future is desirable, more can be done to explore how social cohesion is negotiated and constructed. The trends included in this report support such exploration within communities of practice in generative research, collaborative design, future studies, public administration, and governance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".