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| Improv exercises are meant to encourage spontaneity, co-creation and 'thinking on your feet'. They originate in theatre improvisation, where the performance is created on the spot without a predefined script. Outside of performing arts improv can be used, for example in team-building, training communication skills and therapy. In futuring processes improv can be helpful as an ice-breaker, a way to train the 'speculative mind' or visualise a scenario, an exercise in collaborative storytelling or worldbuilding or in any other phases where the process tends to become overly analytical, bogged down in rigid worldviews or overconfident. Improv can shake-up the status quo and take people out of their comfort zones in a playful and harmless manner. | Improv exercises are meant to encourage spontaneity, co-creation and 'thinking on your feet'. They originate in theatre improvisation, where the performance is created on the spot without a predefined script. Outside of performing arts improv can be used, for example in team-building, training communication skills and therapy. In futuring processes improv can be helpful as an ice-breaker, a way to train the 'speculative mind' or visualise a scenario, an exercise in collaborative storytelling or worldbuilding or in any other phases where the process tends to become overly analytical, bogged down in rigid worldviews or overconfident. Improv can shake-up the status quo and take people out of their comfort zones in a playful and harmless manner. |
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| There are thousands of improv exercises available, that can be applied in as many different settings. On this page we will only mention a few techniques that we repeatedly use in FoAM's futuring workshops, with links to other improv resources online and in books. | See also [[Improvisation]] as an aptitude. |
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| | There are thousands of improv exercises available, that can be applied in as many different settings. On this page we will only mention a few techniques that we repeatedly use in FoAM's futuring workshops, with links to other improv resources online and in books. The box is an example of (status) transactions, Tableau Vivant an example of with setting the scene and collective spontaneity and A word at a time is an example of an improvised storytelling exercise. |
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