==== Future Prehearsals ====

"Future Preparedness" studies individual and group behaviours in challenging and unpredictable conditions. The case study extends futurist scenario planning with speculative design experiments, improvised role-playing games and meditative practices combined in 'prehearsals' – real life laboratories where future scenarios can be experienced as immersive situations. 


=== Instructions, reviews and overviews ===


Blog posts about future prehearsal experiments at FoAM
  * [[https://fo.am/blog/2012/05/16/future-preparedness-the-art-of-the-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]]

Reflections and instructions on scenario planning by Anna Maria Orru and David Relan:
   * [[Scenario Symphony]] describing a range of scenario planning tools
   * [[Temporal Model]] introducing concepts of "passive" and "active" futures in scenarios
   * [[From Pan to Panarchy]] borrowing from eco-systems theory to add dynamic forces to scenarios


=== Background research ===

  * [[scenario planning|Scenario planning references]]
  * [[future_preparedness_notes|Scrapbook]] with notes including topics as disaster drills, survivalism and speculative fiction

=== Scenario experiments ===

So far for FoAM, the method described in The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz seems to be the most appropriate and flexible for our needs. We begin with a question or a challenge, map internal and external influences, rank them based on importance and uncertainty, and from there design four probable scenarios. We then turn the scenarios into narratives and mood-boards and from there create a set of instructions for an improvised prehearsal: a cross-breed between a live action role playing game, an attitude-meditation and a real-life lab.

FoAM's [[scenario planning]] exercise of which three first ones have been turned into prehearsals): How do we work together on interesting things?
  * [[weekend superheroes|Weekend Superheroes]]
  * [[the flotilla|The Flotilla]]
  * [[bohemian salon|A Bohemian Salon]]
  * [[success incubator|Incubator for Successful Artists]]


With Anna Maria Orru and David Relan we explored a range of tools in a [[Scenario Symphony]]:
  * [[scenario workshop 201205]]: How do we engage and connect communities through food?
    *  [[https://fo.am/blog/2012/06/13/scenarioplanning-workshop-foam/|Reflection by Mischka Melo]]

With Patricia Portela and Christophe De Boeck we had a set scenario (new Babylon 2084) and only focused on a short prehearsal:
  * [[https://fo.am/blog/2012/06/16/hortus-prehearsal/|Hortus Prehearsal]]: How did we get to New Babylon?


A possible future of [[future_preparedness_summary_dutch|Future Preparedness]] in Dutch