Set in a contemporary context of global uncertainties characterised by the climate crisis, pandemic and increasing technological automation, I consider how we might engage with this increasingly urgent situation by working towards trusted, emplaced futures. This I propose requires not simply a business-as-usual analysis, but rather a dramatic shift. This involves acknowledging uncertainty as a generative facet of place, and understanding what is familiar and trusted in the everyday as fundamental to trusted futures where we feel confident in the circumstances, environments and relationships in which we find ourselves. I discuss concepts of place, futures and uncertainty, how the concept of trust can be engaged to express and analyse experiential dimensions of futures, and draw on examples from recent ethnographic futures research. I continue my call for new social science research forward which engages the conceptual, methodological and practical required for social scientists to participate in constituting futures alongside other disciplines and stakeholders.