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| ==== Preferred futures ==== | ==== Preferred futures ==== |
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| | Aside from working with multiple, alternative futures, there are techniques that work with preferred futures, and help us understand their relationship with the past and present. |
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| === Appreciative Inquiry === | === Appreciative Inquiry === |
| == Pre-enactment == | == Pre-enactment == |
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| Pre-enactments are direct experiences where future scenarios, alternative pasts or presents can be explored in an immersive situation. They are meant as prototype experiences or rehearsals for situations that haven’t happened (yet). A pre-enactment is an up-close-and-personal, embodied form of futuring, as it reveals habitual behaviours, surprising intuitions and unconscious collective patterns, which are likely to be overlooked or ignored in predominantly cerebral futuring methods. | Pre-enactments are inspired by large-scale larps and re-enactments, but rather than enacting an historical or fictional situation, the participants preenact a situation that may exist in their future. During a pre-enactment, a scenario comes to life as a “first-person experience”. Participants can explore what their life might be like in a specific possible future. In order for the experience to be believable, the broad strokes of a scenario need to be filled with the mundane details of daily life, which can include things like food, clothing, tools, work-spaces, interfaces, events, rituals, etc. Elaborating an experience in such detail can help point to inconsistencies between the ideas in the scenario and the gritty reality, between the images of the future and their embodied manifestations. |
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| Read more about pre-enactments [[:/futurist_fieldguide/pre-enactment|here]] | Read more about pre-enactments [[:/futurist_fieldguide/pre-enactment|here]] |
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| === Invocation === | === Invocation === |
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| | We started the Art of Futuring Workshop with divination, an ancient technique to probe the unknown futures. We ended it with another one: invocation. |
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| <blockquote>Once you’ve created some wiggle room in the present and explored some of the adjacent possible, you might want some of these possibilities to become manifest. How do you help the possibilities to materialise in the present? Most worldviews and belief systems have ways of invoking the spectral possible. A prayer to St. Anthony might help with a lost set of keys. At life’s many crossroads, turn to Hecate or Papa Legba. At any moment you might make an offering to Green Tara for protection and White Tara for good health. When in need of prosperity or success in business, best ask Lakshmi and Ganesh. Alternatively, follow the predictions of stock-market gurus or the black art of economics. While the specific deities and invocation methods may differ, they all provide ways of focusing attention and framing intent. This is important, because attention helps clarify intent, and intent helps bind anticipation to action. It prepares the mind, and prepares the body. “In the fields of observation” says Louis Pasteur “chance favours only the prepared mind.” (...) Anticipating change, hoping for change, or even fighting for change might not be enough. The idea of change itself might have to change. We need a hex for transforming transformation. “A poem to write on the face of reality”, with all the force of collective intent. -[[https://medium.com/aperiodic-mesmerism/in-anticipation-24c87c34a34f|Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney]] </blockquote> | <blockquote>Once you’ve created some wiggle room in the present and explored some of the adjacent possible, you might want some of these possibilities to become manifest. How do you help the possibilities to materialise in the present? Most worldviews and belief systems have ways of invoking the spectral possible. A prayer to St. Anthony might help with a lost set of keys. At life’s many crossroads, turn to Hecate or Papa Legba. At any moment you might make an offering to Green Tara for protection and White Tara for good health. When in need of prosperity or success in business, best ask Lakshmi and Ganesh. Alternatively, follow the predictions of stock-market gurus or the black art of economics. While the specific deities and invocation methods may differ, they all provide ways of focusing attention and framing intent. This is important, because attention helps clarify intent, and intent helps bind anticipation to action. It prepares the mind, and prepares the body. “In the fields of observation” says Louis Pasteur “chance favours only the prepared mind.” (...) Anticipating change, hoping for change, or even fighting for change might not be enough. The idea of change itself might have to change. We need a hex for transforming transformation. “A poem to write on the face of reality”, with all the force of collective intent. -[[https://medium.com/aperiodic-mesmerism/in-anticipation-24c87c34a34f|Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney]] </blockquote> |
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| At the Art of Futuring Workshop we invoked: one thing for yourself, one for the group and one for all beings. We used our voices and bodies to invoke these realities into being... | At the Art of Futuring Workshop we invoked: one thing for yourself, one for the group and one for all beings. We used our voices and bodies to project our intent into the space, hoping to invoke these realities into being... |
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| ==== References ==== | ==== References ==== |
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| * https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/start | A few formal references: |
| * https://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/background | |
| * https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/92CX4HZR | * [[https://jfsdigital.org/|Journal of Futures Studies]] |
| * https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/I55D6MNC | * [[https://www.journals.elsevier.com/futures/|Futures Journal]] |
| * {{ ::future_of_the_world_jenny_andersson_9780198814337_print.pdf |Future of The World}} | * [[http://anticipationconference.org/|Anticipation Conference]] |
| * [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwy8eTupdOeKcWVmRUZHV09vOVU/view|Practical Foresight Guide]] | * [[https://apf.org/|Association of Professional Futurists]] |
| | * {{ ::future_of_the_world_jenny_andersson_9780198814337_print.pdf |Future of The World}}, a recent book on the history of futures |
| | * etc. |
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| | Interesting futurists and futures-oriented individuals and organisations: |
| | * [[http://superflux.in/|Superflux]] and [[https://twitter.com/anabjain|Anab Jain]] |
| | * [[http://www.changeist.com/|Changeist]] |
| | * [[https://www.metafuture.org/|Metafuture]] |
| | * [[https://futuryst.blogspot.com/|Stuart Candy]] |
| | * [[https://extrapolationfactory.com/|Extrapolation Factory]] |
| | * [[https://twitter.com/justinpickard|Justin Pickard]] |
| | * [[https://twitter.com/thesjef|Sjef van Gaelen]] |
| | * [[https://twitter.com/PaulGrahamRaven|Paul Graham Raven]] |
| | * [[https://twitter.com/wendyinfutures|Wendy Schultz]] |
| | * [[http://longnow.org/|The Long Now Foundation]] |
| | * [[https://twitter.com/bruces|Bruce Sterling]] |
| | * [[http://pantopicon.be/|Pantopicon]] |
| | * [[https://twitter.com/AFcrew|Maya van Leemput]] |
| | * [[https://www.edelkoort.com/|Lidewij Edelkoort]] |
| | * etc, etc. |
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| | A few references to FoAM's work with futures |
| | * [[https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/start| A Futurists' Fieldguide]], editable collection of futuring techniques, methods and aptitudes |
| | * [[https://libarynth.org/enacting_futures_in_postnormal_times|Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times]], a paper describing FoAM's approach to futures, including a chapter on prehearsals and pre-enactments |
| | * [[https://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/making_things_physical|Making Things Physical]], article in collaboration with Time's Up about physical and alternate reality narratives in futures |
| | * [[https://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/background|Future Fabulators]], research notes on scenario building, experiential futures and other related topics collected during a specific project |
| | * [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/235804/future_fabulators/items/collectionKey/92CX4HZR|Books and articles at the FoAM Library]] collected for the Future Fictions exhibition in Z33 |
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