==== Prehearsal Methods ====

the early beginnings of a collection of ideas, methods, examples and leads to create better [[prehearsal_pocket_guide|prehearsals]] and [[prehearsing the future]]


<blockquote>Role playing is a form of group judgment. It puts a group of people into a future situation and asks them to act the same as those in that situation would. The original role-playing scenarios were the war games conducted by the USA and (probably) the Soviet militaries in the 1950s, simulating the tensions and negotiations leading to a nuclear attack. Today role playing is common in emergency preparedness and for those preparing for dangerous technical missions, such as pilots, astronauts or nuclear operators (see Jarva, 2000) -Peter Bishop, Andy Hines and Terry Collins</blockquote>

<blockquote>Experience design is the design of anything, independent of medium, or across media, with human experience as an explicit outcome, and human engagement as an explicit goal. -Jesse James Garrett</blockquote>



====previous FoAM work====
Blog posts about future prehearsal experiments at FoAM
  * [[https://fo.am/blog/2012/05/16/future-preparedness-art-long-view/|Scenario and prehearsal design]]
  * [[https://fo.am/blog/2012/07/03/future-preenactments/|About pre-enactments]]
  * [[https://fo.am/blog/2012/06/14/experimenting-prehearsals/|Reflection on the first prehearsals]]

  * see also [[:resilients:future_prehearsals]] and notes from three realised Resilients prehearsals:
    * [[:resilients:the_flotilla]] and [[:resilients:flotilla_survival_guide]]
    * [[:resilients:weekend_superheroes]]
    * [[:resilients:bohemian_salon]]

Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives

  * [[:/parn/start|Borrowed Scenery and Alternate Reality Tutorials]]

==== current work====

from conversation with sarah neville:
  * think about language (make a specific vocabulary)
  * have short iterative prehearsal-reflection cycles (prehearse several scenarios 1 hour each for example)
  * don't reveal the whole process from the beginning
  * set clear boundaries and tasks
  * limit options
  * Augusto Boal: Theatre of Oppressed http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?nodeID=1 and http://brechtforum.org/abouttop
  * Playback Theatre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playback_Theatre


threads to follow up:
  * improv and theatre games
  * live action role playing games (LARPS)
  * disaster drills
  * simulations
  * experience design, see http://www.nathan.com/ed/index.html
  * [[possible futures parallel presents|design fiction and other future prototypes in the 'wild']]
  * [[experiential futures]] and [[guerrilla futures]]
  * meditation/introspection
  * prefigurative politics
  * future jamming
  * action research
  * discursive/critical/interrogative design
  * erica gregory idea factory
  * IFTF: http://www.iftf.org/what-we-do/foresight-tools/collaborative-forecasting-games/foresight-engine/
  * Mission Business: http://www.themission.biz/
  * ...

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Related: [[experiential futures]], [[possible futures parallel presents]]