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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/ | * can we use predictions to help separate/ | ||
- | * what is the question? can it be answered | + | * what is the question? can it be answered |
==== internal / irrational ==== | ==== internal / irrational ==== | ||
* divination / invocation | * divination / invocation | ||
- | ==== software & protocols | + | ==== physical narratives |
- | * open formats > closed formats | + | |
- | * utf-8 > ascii/latin-1/etc+ | + | * Christine Wilks talking about text as a way for developing character depth; [[http://www.riders-project.net/research/ |
- | * documents | + | |
- | * utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, | + | |
- | * pdf for reference & archiving | + | |
- | * [[graph_drawing# | + | * Very based around computer games. |
- | * semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode -> #ff ?) | + | * " |
- | * asyncronous; | + | |
- | * algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git | + | |
- | * online | + | |
- | * **libarynth** for text, tangents and collation -> http://libarynth.org | + | ====formalised decision making==== |
- | * **flickr** for image matter | + | |
- | * **vimeo** for video matter -> http://vimeo.com/fo4m | + | A lot of the scenario planning process has to do with [[Formalised Decision Making]] |
- | * **zotero** for library | + | |
- | * potentially | + | |
- | * tumblr, cargo, diasp, other? | + | ==== present |
- | * prediction book | + | |
- | * wikipedia | + | 20140206 Having done several [[scenarios|scenario workshops]], it seems that the most powerful aspect of the process is the realisation that people usually live in multiple scenarios today - which makes them laugh in recognition, but also helps distill the issues very quickly. How ' |
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+ | Here are a few possible research questions and directions (some quite broad, others very specific), collected from various debriefs | ||
- | ==== reading/ | + | **How to improve |
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- | * "A History of the Future in 100 Objects " >> | + | |
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- | * https:// | + | |
- | * [[notes on the culture]] | + | |
- | * https:// | + | |
- | * https:// | + | |
- | * The Hermetic Library reading room >> http:// | + | |
+ | General questions: | ||
+ | * 'but why...' | ||
+ | * how do we encourage a sense of agency amongst the participants when discussing and developing ' | ||
+ | * 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 ' | ||
+ | * what is the shortest and/or longest time in which we can complete meaningful scenario workshops and/or prehearsals to come up with interesting results while keeping the process enjoyable for the participants? | ||
+ | * what other methods, aside from scenario building, are used to discuss possible futures? | ||
+ | * what can we borrow from other fields, such as; improv, |