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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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| | "Future Preparedness" (FP) is a case study of behaviours of individuals and groups in challenging or unpredictable conditions. The case study combines meditative practices with transdisciplinary and trans-generational experiments, borrowing from age-old sideshows, anachronistic re-enactments and futurist scenarios. In FP we seek out practices that allow us to become aware of our past and present actions, as well as to collectively imagine and experience a range of possible futures. We believe that by cultivating awareness of our present condition we can be more open to whatever the future brings, knowing what we can or should change, what is worth keeping and what we're better off discarding. At the same time, we want to step into the future with a healthy dose of 'visionary adaptation' - with a vision of where we'd like to go, but being ready to adapt to unexpected circumstances. As the roots of any future can be found in our past and present actions, we're looking at ways to co-create future visions that are rooted in where we came from, who we are and what we do today. We prototype these visions as experimental situations that we call "prehearsals" or "pre-enactments". In prehearsals we use improvisation and contemplation to examine the constants and variables of thoughts, behaviours, reactions and opinions - both individual and collective. Prehearsals draw on theatre games, mystical traditions, live action role playing games as well as military drills for disaster relief, such as the Nothing Can Surprise Us ([[:NNNI]]) exercises in ex-Yugoslavia. Future prehearsals model life in unpredictable yet possible scenarios in Europe's near future as improvised, participatory performances. We speculate that through prehearsals, communities can begin establishing valuable contacts and skills to face uncertainty - preparing for any possible future. |
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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 sideshows, anachronistic reenactments and futurist scenarios. The public aspect of the case study includes prehearsals or future reenactments, drawing on improvisation, scenario planning, and military drills for disaster relief such as the Nothing Can Surprise Us ([[:NNNI]]) exercises in ex-Yugoslavia, where young and 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 such prehearsals, communities can begin establishing valuable contacts and skills to face uncertainty. A long-term objective is to envisage a Europe-wide resilience training, encouraging the public to imagine possible futures and acquire the skills, resources and knowledge needed to survive and thrive. | |
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| The Resilients activities that are thematically related to the Future Preparedness: | The Resilients activities that are thematically related to the Future Preparedness: |
| * [[:mathematickal arts 2011|Mathematickal Arts Workshop]] | * [[:mathematickal arts 2011|Mathematickal Arts Workshop]] |
| * Resilients Apprentices | * Resilients Apprentices |
| * Resilients Journeyers | * [[Artists in Transience|Resilients Journeyers]] |
| | * Coralie Stalberg's "[[resilients:debrouillardise et coquetterie]]" |
| | * Dougald Hine's travellogue & rhapsodies -> http://rhapsodi.se/resilients/ |
| * Resilients Salons | * Resilients Salons |
| * [[foreground_research|Foreground Research]] | |
| * [[background_research|Background Research]] | === instructions, reviews and overviews === |
| | * [[Scenario Symphony]] |
| | * [[Temporal Model]] |
| | * [[From Pan to Panarchy]] |
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| === in progress === | === in progress === |
| * [[future preparedness notes]] | * [[future preparedness notes]] (in dutch) |
| * [[scenario planning]] | * [[scenario planning]] |
| | * [[foreground_research|Foreground Research]] |
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| | === scenarios === |
| | * FoAM [[scenario planning]] exercise 201204 |
| | * [[weekend superheroes|Weekend Superheroes]] |
| | * [[the flotilla|The Flotilla]] |
| | * [[success incubator|Incubator for Successful Artists]] |
| | * [[bohemian salon|A Bohemian Salon]] |
| | * [[scenario workshop 201205]] |
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maja