This page aggregates background research that is in progress on the Future Fabulators wiki

• scenario_building has notes and quotes related to building (possible future) scenarios
• scenario methods inquires into different methods we can use in scenario building experiments
• prehearsal methods looks at fields and disciplines we can borrow from to design future pre-enactments/prehearsals
• experiential futures merging design, futures and politics. see also guerrilla futures
• action foresight combining futures studies and action research
• design fiction and speculative design on the cross-section between design, fiction and future studies
• possible futures parallel presents on futurescaping and other prototyping techniques
• non predictive strategy looks at ways to avoid the trap of thinking that we can predict the future
• forecasting page looks at the reality of forecasting and foresight (on the libarynth, not ffab subwiki)
• formalised decision making looks at how to help groups make decisions
• integral futures adding the element of individual agency
• crowdsourced futures and participation in future studies
• horizon scanning and similar identification of change drivers
• improv foresight: notes from a strategy paper looking at improvisation as real time foresight
• (more relevant pages can be found by following links on each of the pages above, as well as looking through the recent changes on this wiki

• further reading can be found on the references page

• a rather unstructured collection of thought processes can be found on the confabulations page

My work is that of a limited man who must deal with a limitless situation –Paul Virilio