A growing collection of scenarios designed by the Future Fabulators. For background information see scenario_building and scenario methods

“The Open Futures Library is a publicly-contributed, indexed, searchable collection of future scenarios and other images of the future. Hundreds of futures projects worldwide each year generate depictions of the future in the form of scenarios, story sketches, artist’s impressions, videos and so on and publish them online, but finding and reusing these depictions is very difficult. Our goal is to provide a repository which indexes each depiction of the future by the kinds of criteria that makes it reusable.” http://openfutures.net/

“Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous” Dator’s 2nd Law of the Future

Scenarios emerging from FoAM workshops are based on the ideas behind prehearsing the future.

• Possible futures of Future Fabulators
  • culture as society
  • culture as cult
  • culture as utopias
  • culture as nature

• Fear of the Future and the future of fear.
  • the shire
  • the land of little dictators
  • borderless archipelago
  • A-maze, the island of ultra-fluid exploitations/opportunities

• How can invasive species become a source, rather than threat and waste?
  • domesticated
  • enslaved
  • included
  • dissident

• Why should research institutes exist?
  • particle accelerator
  • further
  • zombie swamp
  • beer club

• M-ITI Capstone projects in Human Computer Interaction and Media Entertainment Technology (2014)
  • metropolis
  • wonderworld
  • xanaxland
  • flower power

• The future of food, wellness and the environment
  • continue
  • collapse
  • discipline
  • transform

• Pulse Visiedagen, three visioning days about culture as an engine for a wider systemic transition (in Dutch)
  • Het barre land
  • Rol de vlag maar op, we zijn er!
  • Leeflabo
  • Good Lie
  • First Nature First
  • Natuur als bron van inspiratie
  • Titanic on Earth
  • Overleven op verbeelding

• Transiency scenarios for the possible futures of a sceptical biotechnologist
  • Basement Researcher
  • Passionless Expert
  • New-Edge Hacker
  • CommonTech Invigorator
  • Edge Hiker

• Lucid dreaming a storyworld: using scenario building as lucid dreaming to create a fictional storyworld
  • Physical Narrative

• xcoax_workshop looking at what the Third Culture might be like
  • five near future scenarios
  • Annbonny's ark (including pre-enactment)
  • Humanalia
  • Springfield

• visualizing_the_invisible
  • franco
  • hal2020
  • geriopolis
  • biopentopia

• futures_of_doing_nothing
  • utopia_2024

• laurisilva_futures
  • laurisilva_discipline
  • laurisilva_collapse
  • laurisilva_transform

• M-ITI Capstone projects in Human Computer Interaction (2015)
  • Crescendo where growth is primary motivation
  • Dystopia where the world as we know it collapsed
  • Extreme New World where discipline reigns
  • Robot Caregivers where the world is transformed

• Marine CoLAB

• Pollutopia, where business continues as usual, growth economy continues growing amidst climate chaos.
• Rescue is a world where climate chaos surpassed several tipping points, forcing humanity to redesign our value system and practice sustainable economy in order to survive.
• Cool Growth allows economy to continue growing while focusing all attention to climate change mitigation.
• Imagine… is a world where a planetary cultural shift to sustainable economy and climate mitigation is changing the shape of our civilisation and reversing our damage to the planet.

• The future of the city facilitated by AltArt in Cluj, Romania