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| ==== Future preparedness ==== | ==== Future preparedness ==== |
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| | "The future will always be more messy than we imagine." --Jamais Cascio |
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| This Future Preparedness case study researches how to increase individual, group and community resilience by cultivating behaviours that allow us to be prepared for any possible future. It combines collecting of historical examples of resilient social and cultural structures with age-old side-shows, anachronistic re-enactments and futurist scenarios. The public aspect of the case study includes prehearsals or future reenactments, drawing on improvisation, scenario planning, military drills for disaster relief, such as Nothing Can Surprise Us (NNNI) exercises in ex- Yugoslavia, where young & old played a role in a staged emergency. Similarly RT's future prehearsals model life in unpredictable, yet possible scenarios in Europe's near future as an improvised, participatory performance. FP hypothesises that through the prehearsals, the community can begin establishing valuable contacts & skills to face uncertainty. A long term objective is to envisage a Europe-wide resilience training, encouraging the public to imagine possible futures & acquire the skills, resources & knowledge needed to survive & thrive. | Future Preparedness explores how to prototype a range of possible futures and experience them as real, physical situations. By immersing ourselves in these situations, that we call future 'prehearsals' or 'pre-enactments', we cultivate mindsets and behaviours that can help us adapt to diverse and unpredictable futures. This case study builds on futurist scenario planning and ancient meditation practices, as well as age-old sideshows, anachronistic re-enactments and contemporary disaster drills. We sketch our future lives as improvised, participatory experiences and test them in a number of near future scenarios. |
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| The Resilients activities that are thematically related to the Future Preparedness: | <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/8455442570/" title="resilients-timesplash by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8373/8455442570_9c5229b1aa_b.jpg" width="699" height="364" alt="resilients-timesplash"></a></html> |
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| | The Resilients and their activities informing the Future Preparedness case study: |
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| | * [[future_prehearsals|Experiments for Home Futurists]]: FoAM's fieldwork on scenario planning and future prehearsals |
| | * [[artists_in_transience|Transiency of a Contemporary Journeyman]]: Dougald Hine on a quest for resilience as the Resilients' "artist in transience" |
| | * [[transgenerational_residency]]: The Simpsons (Mark, Leah, Scarlet and Delilah) as a "Family in Residence" where FoAM in Brussels transforms from a cultural laboratory to a 21st century clan, celebrating the first [[http://fo.am/rbd/|Rocket Boat Day]] |
| | * Collective Introspection in [[naikan|the Naikan Retreat]]: Helga Hartl assisted by Christina Stadlbauer conduct a silent retreat at the FoAM studio, investigating the effect of the [[naikan]] practice on collaboration and communication in the working environment |
| | * Science, crafts and emerging technologies in [[::mathematickal_arts_2011|Mathematickal Arts Workshop]]: Carole Collet and Tim Boykett bring together disparate disciplines - mathematics, textile design and tangible programming - to explore whether borrowing from each other's fields can increase their resilience. |
| | * [[resilients_salons]]: a series of conversations about topics related to cultural resilience |
| | * [[debrouillardise_et_coquetterie|Resilients Apprentice]]: Anthropologist Coralie Stalberg's in a creative apprenticeship investigating the resilience of re-use and repair techniques in war-time clothing. |
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| | === Instructions, reviews and overviews === |
| | * [[scenario symphony]] |
| | * [[temporal model]] |
| | * [[From Pan to Panarchy]] |
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| * Family In Residence | |
| * Naikan | |
| * [[:mathematickal arts 2011|Mathematickal Arts Workshop]] | |
| * Resilients Apprentices | |
| * Resilients Journeyers | |
| * Resilients Salons | |
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