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==== Confabulation ==== | ==== Confabulation ==== | ||
- | working notes fr FF. | + | working notes of Future Fabulators |
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+ | “Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous” Dator’s 2nd Law of the Future (Dator 1995) | ||
==== external / rational ==== | ==== external / rational ==== | ||
- | * [[Prediction Markets]] | + | * [[: |
+ | * can we use predictions to help separate/ | ||
+ | * what is the question? can it be answered decisively at a particular point in the future? what is at stake? what are the consequences or impacts? | ||
==== internal / irrational ==== | ==== internal / irrational ==== | ||
* divination / invocation | * divination / invocation | ||
- | ==== reading/ | + | ==== physical narratives |
- | * various [[scifi]] threads re. possible future | + | |
- | * bloom, ventus, mars trilogy, incrementalists, etc+ | + | * Christine Wilks talking about text as a way for developing character depth; [[http:// |
- | * 'the culture' | + | * performing text on screen |
- | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture | + | * Varytale |
- | * [[notes on the culture]] | + | * "Text becomes the equivalent of subtitles" |
- | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ideas_in_science_fiction | + | * Very based around computer games. |
- | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ideas_in_science_fiction | + | * " |
- | * The Hermetic Library reading room >> | + | * Note: Prehearsals are first person narratives, PNs are third person. Thus a Prehearsal can have " |
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+ | ====formalised decision making==== | ||
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+ | A lot of the scenario planning process has to do with [[Formalised Decision Making]] and how this is done in groups. | ||
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+ | ==== present / future ==== | ||
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+ | 20140206 Having done several [[scenarios|scenario workshops]], | ||
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+ | Here are a few possible research questions and directions (some quite broad, others very specific), collected from various | ||
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+ | **How to improve the [[prehearsal pocket guide]]?** (notes from February 2014) | ||
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+ | General questions: | ||
+ | * 'but why...' (experiential futurism)? | ||
+ | * how do we encourage a sense of agency amongst the participants when discussing and developing 'possible | ||
+ | * what are the historical and current examples of experimental arts and culture as speculative/ | ||
+ | * What is the relationship | ||
+ | * What online tools exist to make statistical analysis (and other aspects of futures research) available for non-expert futurists? | ||
+ | * how do we clarify that what we’re doing is not about predicting the future, but about empowering people to be more aware of their present situation and clarify what they could do today to shape their actions to encourage a preferred possible future? | ||
+ | * what other forms can 'experiencing possible futures' | ||
+ | * what is the shortest | ||
+ | * what other methods, aside from scenario building, are used to discuss possible | ||
+ | * what techniques can we use to translate possible future scenarios into experimental situations (improv, role playing games, LARP, disaster drills, meditation)? | ||
+ | * what is the state of the art in enacting [[ possible futures parallel presents|possible futures / parallel presents]] | ||
+ | * how can we help increase the commitment of the participants to work towards their preferred future(s)? how much follow-up is needed? | ||
+ | * how could we enable participants to use digital tools to enrich the process, while avoiding distractions and displacements of email, social media, etc? what collaborative digital tools could we use to share the same digital working surface (something like Reactable for example) | ||
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+ | ==== scenario database ==== | ||
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+ | 20140205 While editing | ||
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+ | * what is the question? | ||
+ | * what are the scenario axes? | ||
+ | * sometimes we have a short answer to the question (usually created after making the scenarios) | ||
+ | * how far in the future does the scenario take place? | ||
+ | * scenario description | ||
+ | * genaral image(s) | ||
+ | * more specific/ | ||
+ | * links to the pages of related scenarios (and a ' | ||
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+ | should we try to contextualise the scenarios directly in the database? | ||
+ | * a section with links to projects/ | ||
+ | * section on how the scenario is turned into a prehearsal (could be in the form of a 'day in the life of..."? | ||
+ | * reflections on the prehearsal | ||
+ | * etc. | ||
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+ | or should we keep the database only as a 'short story collection'? | ||
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+ | a rather bad example of a scenario database is the [[http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/futuresmatrix.html|Millennium Project' | ||
+ | ==== software & protocols ==== | ||
+ | * open formats > closed formats | ||
+ | * utf-8 > ascii/ | ||
+ | * documents | ||
+ | * utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, | ||
+ | * pdf for reference & archiving | ||
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+ | * semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode -> #ff ?) | ||
+ | * asyncronous; | ||
+ | * algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git | ||
+ | * online | ||
+ | * **libarynth** for text, tangents and collation -> http:// | ||
+ | * **flickr** for image matter -> https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/ | ||
+ | * **vimeo** for video matter -> http:// | ||
+ | * **zotero** for library and references -> https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library | ||
+ | * potentially | ||
+ | * tumblr, cargo, diasp, other? | ||
+ | * prediction book | ||
+ | * wikipedia | ||
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+ | === natality === | ||
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+ | Hanna Arendt and ' | ||
+ | Voor Arendt is ' | ||
+ | http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/# | ||
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