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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 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. | Future Preparedness explores how to prototype a range of possible futures and experience them as real, physical situations. By immersing ourselves in these 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 scenario building 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="800" alt="resilients-timesplash"></a></html> |
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| * Family In Residence | |
| * [[Naikan|Naikan]] | |
| * [[:mathematickal arts 2011|Mathematickal Arts Workshop]] | |
| * Resilients Apprentices | |
| * Resilients Journeyers | |
| * Resilients Salons | |
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| | === The Resilients and their activities informing the Future Preparedness case study: === |
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| === in progress === | |
| * [[future preparedness notes]] | |
| * [[scenario planning]] | |
| * [[foreground_research|Foreground Research]] | |
| * [[background_research|Background Research]] | |
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| == scenarios == | * [[future_prehearsals|Experiments for Home Futurists]]: FoAM's fieldwork on scenario planning and future prehearsals |
| | * Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney reflect on FoAM's own future preparedness experiments in [[Prehearsing the Future]], and summarise the recipe they devised in the [[Prehearsal Pocket Guide]] |
| | * From personal to [[cultural resilience]], an article by Nik & Maja for the Washington Post |
| | * [[scenario symphony|Composing a Scenario Symphony]] with Anna Maria Orru and David Relan: exploring future scenario building through the [[temporal model]] and [[from pan to panarchy|panarchy]] |
| | * [[artists_in_transience|Transiency of a Contemporary Journeyman]]: Dougald Hine's quest for resilience as "artist in transience" |
| | * [[transgenerational residency|Family in Residence]]: The Simpsons (Mark, Leah, Scarlet and Delilah) transform FoAM Brussels from a cultural laboratory into a 21st century clan -- and also celebrate the first [[http://fo.am/rbd/|Rocket Boat Day]] |
| | * Collective Introspection in the [[naikan|Naikan retreat]]: Helga Hartl assisted by Christina Stadlbauer conducts a silent retreat at the FoAM studio, investigating the effect of [[naikan_as_resilient_practice|Naikan practice]] on collaboration and communication in a working environment |
| | * Science, crafts and emerging technologies in the [[:mathematickal_arts_2011|Mathematickal Arts]] workshop: Carole Collet and Tim Boykett bring together disparate disciplines - mathematics, textile design and tangible programming - to explore how borrowing from one another's fields can increase their resilience |
| | * [[Resilients Salons]]: a series of conversations about topics related to cultural resilience, hosted by notable speakers and thinkers from a variety of backgrounds |
| | * Anthropologist Coralie Stalberg's [[debrouillardise_et_coquetterie|Débrouillardise et Coquetterie]]: investigating DIY textile practices and associated recycling strategies during World War II |
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| * [[the_flotilla|The Flotilla]] | |
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