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   * https://fo.am/events/art-futuring-workshop/   * https://fo.am/events/art-futuring-workshop/
  
-==== References ==== +==== Techniques from the workshop ==== 
-  * https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/start + 
-  * https://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/background +During the [[https://fo.am/events/art-futuring-workshop/|Art of Futuring Workshop]] we experimented with a series of techniques to probe possible futures.  
-  * https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/92CX4HZR + 
-  * https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/I55D6MNC + 
-  * {{ ::future_of_the_world_jenny_andersson_9780198814337_print.pdf |Future of The World}}+=== Divination === 
 + 
 +In the introduction round, we used [[http://superflux.in/index.php/and-now-for-something-completely-different/#|Instant Archetypes]] from Superflux... 
 + 
 +<blockquote>... a toolkit for anyone looking to open up possibilities, surface questions and untangle stubborn challenges. A reimagining of the timeless tropes of the Major Arcana for the 21st Century where the Fool is now the Consumer, the Chariot is a Drone, and the Moon is a Meme. </blockquote> 
 + 
 +{{>https://vimeo.com/296869333}}\\  
 + 
 + 
 +=== Card games === 
 + 
 +Learning to work with constraints, wild cards, Four Archetypal Futures and speculative artefacts 
 +  * [[https://www.kunsten.be/dossiers/internationaal-samenwerken-2/reframing-the-international/about-reframing-the-international#!|Reframing the International]] by Kunstenpunt 
 +  * [[https://situationlab.org/project/the-thing-from-the-future/|The Thing from the Future]] by Situation Lab.  
 + 
 +<blockquote> The Thing From The Future is an imagination game that helps players generate countless ideas for artifacts from the future; to amuse, delight, explore, and provoke. </blockquote> 
 +       
 +{{>http://vimeo.com/111582424}}\\   
 +   
 +You can print your own card deck [[http://situationlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FUTURETHING_Print-and-Play.pdf|here]] 
 +    
 +       
 + 
 + 
 +=== Asking questions === 
 + 
 + 
 +Paraphrasing from [[https://www.scribd.com/document/18675626/Art-of-Powerful-Questions|The art of powerful questions]] a powerful question is a three-dimensional one. The three dimensions are: construction, scope and assumptions. Construction is about phrasing of the question (see the paragraphs above) - which words you use can inspire or demotivate people. The scope is about tailoring the question to the capacity of people's action - where can people make immediate difference (e.g. family, organisation, community, global society). Finally, every question will have your or wider assumptions built into it, assumptions that might not be shared in the group. We should be especially aware of negative assumptions (“what did we do wrong?” could be better phrased as “what can we learn from what happened?”). Having a question focus on the problem, can make people defensive or disengaged. It's helpful to check if the question encourages learning, reflection, collaboration and/or exploration rather than blaming, competition or justifying. 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Non-predictive strategy === 
 + 
 +KPUU Framework is a structured technique to think about and discuss the present, based on what is known, presumed, unknown and unknowable. KPUU helps distinguish facts from assumptions, uncover what the participants don't know, and define what is unknowable at this time. 
 + 
 +Read more about KPUU here: https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/kpuu_framework 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Horizon scanning === 
 + 
 +Horizon scanning is about tracking change. Analysing current developments undergoing change, such as trends and megatrends and observing change on the micro-scale, looking for possible but improbable changes in the future, also known as weak signals and wild cards.  
 + 
 +Trend is a tendency or direction of change. It can be observed when analysing past and present events, and noticing patterns. Megatrends are long-term transformations, with wide-reaching consequences. They are observed over decades (or longer) and have impact across most if not all societal sectors. Weak signals are early warnings that something is changing. Something that isn't important in the present, but could trigger a major change in the future. They might appear in your peripheral vision or a random conversation. You tend to find weak signals when you aren't looking for them. Wild Cards, or "[[black swan]]" events are things that are unlikely to happen, but when they do, they affect massive change.  
 + 
 +Read more about horizon scanning [[:/futurist_fieldguide/horizon_scanning|here]]. 
 + 
 +An example of a horizon scanning aggregate website: http://community.iknowfutures.eu/ 
 + 
 + 
 +== STEEP analysis == 
 + 
 +STEEP stands for 'social, technological, environmental, economic and political' factors (aka trends, forces, change drivers) that are external to the system, issue or question examined in the futuring exercise, but can influence it. 
 + 
 +Read more about STEEP analysis [[:/futurist_fieldguide/steep|here]] 
 +   
 + 
 +=== Causal Layered Analysis === 
 + 
 +Causal layered analysis is a futures research method focusing on in-depth analysis of current issues and identifying alternative futures.  
 + 
 + 
 +<html><a href="https://38.media.tumblr.com/7aca57b3f430dad3779e1a054584edd0/tumblr_inline_mzybcuGj911qc578m.jpg"><img src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/7aca57b3f430dad3779e1a054584edd0/tumblr_inline_mzybcuGj911qc578m.jpg"></a></html> 
 + 
 +Read more about applying CLA [[:/futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|here]]. 
 + 
 +<blockquote> As a theory [CLA] seeks to integrate empiricist, interpretive, critical, and action learning modes of knowing. As a method, its utility is not in predicting the future but in creating transformative spaces for the creation of alternative futures. It is also likely to be useful in developing more effective—deeper, inclusive, longer term—policy.  
 +- [[http://metafuture.org/cla%20papers/Inayatullah%20%20Causal%20layered%20analysis%20-%20theory,%20historical%20context,%20and%20case%20studies.%20Intro%20chapter%20from%20The%20CLA%20Reader..pdf|Sohail Inayatullah]] 
 + 
 +</blockquote>   
 + 
 + 
 +=== Scenario building === 
 + 
 +We used the 2x2 double uncertainty, adapted from Peter Schwartz in The Art of the Long View This method creates evocative, albeit not too surprising scenarios, which tend 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 critical uncertainties: 
 +  * reducing the number of change drivers to two critical uncertainties can create tension in participants (but can also work quite well in some situations, when it distills the core of the problem) 
 +  * the 2×2 matrix highlights 'opposites' and extreme scenarios, potentially losing the subtleties and diversity of the worlds. 
 + 
 +{{ :resilients:scenario-process-diagram.png?1000 |Visual translation of 'Steps to developing scenarios' by P. Schwartz}} 
 + 
 +   
 +Read more the GBN approach [[https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/gbn_approach|here]] 
 + 
 +You can find a slightly different description on the website of Infinite Futures (Wendy Schultz), alongside descriptions of other useful futuring tools and techniques: http://www.infinitefutures.com/tools/sbschwartz.shtml 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Incasting === 
 + 
 +Incasting is about delving deeper into scenarios to create more complete worlds and stories filled with rich detail. While it's often fairly easy to agree on the general outline of a scenario, elaborating the specifics and complexities can raise surprising and revealing discussions. By exploring the details of a given scenario, various inconsistencies, assumptions and (cognitive) biases can surface. Furthermore, when incasting is applied to familiar contexts and using known formats, the differences and similarities between the present and future can become more apparent and open to further examination. 
 + 
 +At the Art of Futuring workshop we used several approaches to incasting: 
 + 
 +== Answering the core question == 
 + 
 +We asked the core question of the workshop from the vantage points of different scenarios.  four very different answers.  
 + 
 +== Visualising scenario answers == 
 + 
 +The answers were visualised as posters 
 + 
 +== Closed eye visioning / mental time travel == 
 + 
 +== Personal backstory == 
 + 
 +<blockquote> A backstory is a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot. It is a literary device of a narrative history all chronologically earlier than the narrative of primary interest. (...) It is the history of characters and other elements that underlie the situation existing at the main narrative's start. 
 + 
 +From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstory </blockquote> 
 + 
 + 
 +Prototyping 
 + 
 +17. Personal profile page (within scenario logic) 
 + 
 +18. Postcards from the future (tableau vivants) 
 + 
 +Preferred futures 
 + 
 +19. Appreciative Inquiry: Discovery phase (1 of 4) 
 + 
 +20. Theory of change: Outcomes Framework 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +Prehearsal / pre-enactment  
 + 
 +21. Backstories for preferred scenario 
 +22. Speculative Experience Design for concrete situation 
 + 
 + 
 +Open Space 
 +23. hosting workshop sessions 
 + 
 +Adaptive Action Cycle 
 +24. What? So what? Now What? 
 + 
 +25. Invocation 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Dot-voting === 
 + 
 +Dot-voting is a facilitation method used to describe voting with dot stickers or markers. Dot-voting is widely used for making quick collaborative decisions. It is a quick and simple method for prioritize a long list of options.  
 + 
 +Read more about dot-voting here: http://dotmocracy.org/dot-voting/ 
 + 
 +=== Sociometry === 
 + 
 +Sociometry is a technique to visualise social relationships. It can show underlying patterns of a group which can be difficult to surface through conversation. A sociometric exercise begins with a question that the group is required to answer by moving in the space and finding appropriate positions for all its members relative to each other. 
 + 
 +Read more about sociometry [[:/futurist_fieldguide/sociometry|here]]. 
 + 
 +See also the website of the Sociometry Training Network: http://www.sociometry.net/ 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +=== U process ===
  
  
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 —Warren Ellis  —Warren Ellis 
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 +==== References ====
 +  * https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/start
 +  * https://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/background
 +  * https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/92CX4HZR
 +  * https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/I55D6MNC
 +  * {{ ::future_of_the_world_jenny_andersson_9780198814337_print.pdf |Future of The World}}
 +  * [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwy8eTupdOeKcWVmRUZHV09vOVU/view|Practical Foresight Guide]]
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