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| ==== Future preparedness ==== | ==== Future preparedness ==== |
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| "The future will always be more messy than we imagine." --Jamais Cascio | "The future will always be more messy than we imagine." -- Jamais Cascio |
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| | 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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| "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. | <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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| | === The Resilients and their activities informing the Future Preparedness case study: === |
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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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| | * [[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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