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future_fabulators:scenario_methods [2014-02-26 05:43] – [Four Generic Futures] maja | future_fabulators:scenario_methods [2014-03-01 05:29] – [Scenarios] maja | ||
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Dator discusses in length the process of creating four generic futures (Continue, Collapse, Discipline and Transform) - as four types of stories in which all/most future scenarios can be classified. | Dator discusses in length the process of creating four generic futures (Continue, Collapse, Discipline and Transform) - as four types of stories in which all/most future scenarios can be classified. | ||
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+ | 1) Continue: What are the ways in which the system in which we find ourselves could continue as it is? | ||
+ | 2) Collapse: What are the ways in which it could fall apart? | ||
+ | 3) Discipline: What are the ways in which it could be directed? | ||
+ | 4) Transform: What are the ways in which it could change altogether? | ||
+ | Phrased this way, each generic image of the future presents a challenge to test the boundaries of one’s expectations and understanding of the system. | ||
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+ | From Stuart Candy in his disertation [[http:// | ||
=== Cone of Plausibility === | === Cone of Plausibility === | ||
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- | Anna Maria Orru and David Relan wrote [[:/ | + | Anna Maria Orru and David Relan wrote [[:/ |
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//How to better structure building scenario skeletons with guiding questions (which questions could be generalised)?// | //How to better structure building scenario skeletons with guiding questions (which questions could be generalised)?// | ||
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+ | One suggestion (not sure about all of the focus on problems): | ||
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+ | A. General discussion of your future | ||
+ | * What will most people be doing in such a world? | ||
+ | * What economic problems that worry people now will be gone, or relatively minor? | ||
+ | * What environmental problems that worry people now will be gone, or relatively minor? | ||
+ | * What other problems that worry people now will be gone, or relatively minor? What new (economic, environmental, | ||
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+ | B. How probable (likely to actually occur) is the future described in your scenario? | ||
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+ | C. How preferable is the future described in your scenario? That is, how close is it to your own preferred future? | ||
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+ | D. To the extent the future described in your scenario is judged preferable by your group, what five things need to be done now to move towards those desirable aspects of that future? | ||
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+ | E. To the extent the future described in your scenario is judged undesirable by your group, what five things need to be done now to see that those undesirable aspects not occur? | ||
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have a look at the CLA or the [[http:// | have a look at the CLA or the [[http:// | ||
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Backcasting starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect the future to the present. | Backcasting starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect the future to the present. | ||
- | However with retrocasting/ | + | However with retrocasting/ |