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ough practice and can take many shapes and forms. All that said, there are a few basic forms which can ... circle tends to be unifying.
==== Process ====
All the conversation formats are variations of the ba... facilitator, the role is more or less the same in all formats:
* Explaining the exercise and what is ... fying conversations, some can benefit form having all the forms above, put together in a coherent flow.
which we translate into a short backstory. We usually include one or more images to capture their atmo... are encouraged to stay in their role, and to keep all comments and reflections for a debrief session. T... s an 'external game master' or (if the group is small enough) participate in the pre-enactment in chara... e session at the end should collect findings from all pre-enactments and transform the learning into pr
iced through a range of meditative techniques. It allows the participant to let go of worries about pas... y broaden the beam to include your whole body and all the sensations associated with the body: the cont... replenishes your breath. Listen and breathe, and allow your attention to encompass it all.'//
Step 4: //'Become aware that the air that brings the sounds
eed for clarity and meticulous preparation, especially when designing participatory experiences; the mo... he gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to stone, to cement, to plastic…\\
—Italo Calvi... rom heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure ... d encourage alternate states of consciousness
* Allow the breeze of possibility to blow through a sta
ical narratives to explore future scenarios is to allow the feeling of embedding the visitor in a world... ignificantly different from the current everyday, allowing them to feel the everyday of a possible futu... e to look at how to build a physical narrative to allow it to be explored.
One of the design ideas tha... in a space within which they can be at least partially private. Allowing privacy allows the character t
e, such as trends and driving forces.
//"Almost all foresight work starts with or involves Horizon Sc... r Environmental, Scanning is the art of systematically exploring the external environment to better und... ironment, and identify potential opportunities, challenges, and likely future developments"//
—[[http:... |How to Future]]
Signals of change can be found all around you. In news, opinions, scientific discove
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A futures literacy calls for a familiarity with manifold models of change... porate change and transform itself into a new (ideally improved) state in response to that change. Finally, a revolutionary change is one which radically transforms the system or significantly destabilises it
to be useful caricatures of the present than radically imaginative futures.
The challenge of the method lies in its focus on scenario axes derived from cr... hlights 'opposites' and extreme scenarios, potentially losing the subtleties and diversity of the world... to be specific and exhaustive. Make a mind-map of all the factors that together provide a complete pict
mplications of the work, uncovers the patterns, challenges and possibilities, and invites honest reflec... tute.
At FoAM we used this technique very informally in short debrief sessions, as well as in formal ... k sessions are not only backward-looking, but actually encourage forward movement into the next phases ... Step 1: Frame the session as a debrief that will allow the group to look back and look forward on a pr
ve Inquiry requires a spacious room (or several smaller rooms), with space for the whole group to work ... , or online through a system such as [[http://www.allourideas.org/|All Our Ideas]].
* Step 1: Discover: In this step the participants conduct interviews... p 3: Design: Create Possible scenarios by individually drawing a picture and/or write a short scenario
echnique) by their importance and uncertainty. Usually two of up to three of the highest ranking driver... al breaks or surprises, but it can uncover what really matters to people and what they're most unsure o... in the top tip of the diamond, so they can be visually chosen.
- __List the drivers on a scale from m... least important and uncertain__. Select 1--3 (usually 2) of the 'most important and most uncertain' dr
be acted out'. Similarly, in futuring (and especially the emerging field of experiential futures) the ... data and information become knowledge (and eventually wisdom) through direct experience. In the words ... t lacking relevance, but rather an inspirational call to action with traction' (from [[:/future_fabulat... in your fellow participants, trust the situation. Allow yourself to be vulnerable in order to be affect
is a refinement of Neustadt and May’s work. We call it the 'KPUU framework'. It demands strategists ... g the right person or source), and what is essentially Unknowable (e.g. consumer acceptance of chemically-enhanced language learning)? An open debate about what data goes in each column -- especially what is Unknown versus what is simply Unknowable
questions. The questions are asked very slowly to allow enough time for images to arise in people’s minds. The goal of this exercise is to allow the participants to familiarise themselves with... ions at the end or not. Sometimes not sharing can allow the participants to be more free in their imagi... on of the exercise (approximately 10-15 minutes). Allow time for everyone to settle in.
* Step 3: In
tations, posters, adds, blogs, news-flashes, etc. All of these media use a similar format which grabs t... e additions. It is best to design newspapers in smaller working groups of no more than 5 people. If you... t groups. You can use the same pool of images for all groups, but each group should have their own craf... .
* Step 5: Launch: At the end of the exercise all groups come together to present their newspapers
