Notes from the Laurisilva Futures workshop held in Ponta Do Sol, on the 7th of November 2014, organised by M-ITI, hosted by FoAM. Find out more about the workshop at Laurisilva Futures Flow.

In the context of Future Fabulators M-ITI conceived and designed a locally inspired context-aware transmedia story. Drawing inspiration from a creative writing workshop and future scenario session, they developed a fictional story around two central themes: the past-present-future impact of human settlement on a particular ecosystem, in this case the centuries-old ‘living lab’ and UNESCO-protected wilderness of Madeira; and the healing properties of local flora as explored in folk remedies. Laurisilva Futures workshop invited its participants to imagine future scenarios for the Laurel forest and its entanglement with humans.

Participants: Valentina Nisi, Mara Dionisio, Julian Hanna, Giovanni Innella, Susana Fontinha, Dina Henriques, Mauricio Reis, Tina Auer, Tim Boykett, Alex Davies, Istvan Szakats, Rarita Zbranca.

Facilitators: Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney

Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157649262534182/

More about the context of the workshop: http://futurefabulators.m-iti.org/events/laurissilva-futures-workshop/