Correction: Nakagawa, Y.; Saijo, T. Future Design as a Metacognitive Intervention for Presentism. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7552

Text Correction

The authors would like to make the following correction to the published paper [1]. The change is as follows:

Deleting one sentence in section 3. Materials and Methods on page 4: “Voices were recorded and analyzed after the discussion”.

The corrected paragraph reads as follows:

In both workshops, participants were divided into groups consisting of approximately four members each. Both groups of workshop participants were asked to imagine that they had time-traveled to the future and were living there at their current ages. Participants in the Yahaba Town workshop were asked to imagine would their town would be like in 40 years; residents of Uji City were asked to imagine what their city would be like in 30 years. Then, in Yahaba Town, the participants were requested to give a general description of the town in this imagined future. In Uji City, the participants were requested to describe the state of the local communities of the future city they were asked to imagine. In both municipalities, a staff member facilitated each group discussion, and the objectives agreed were used to create a narrative of the future. In each group, participants sometimes made contradictory assumptions about the external environment surrounding the municipalities (e.g., socio-demographics). While participants tended to try to achieve a consensus, there was no guarantee that they perfectly shared assumptions. Even so, they were able to share the hope that a specific future world could be realized. This expectation seemed consistent with the organizational studies literature stating that the vision of an organization should be something that is not only “viewed as desirable by employees” but also “is unlikely to be changed by market or technology changes” [25].

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.