WS J - Environmental Futures Workshop

• Session: 00 SES 0.5 WS J (NW28): Environmental Futures Workshop
• Time: 9:30 - 11:45
• Facilitators: Diego Alatorre Guzmán and Nuno Coelho
• Pre-registration is NOT required

We are looking forward to engaging with future enthusiasts, people from diverse backgrounds, multiple disciplines, and across all different ages interested in exploring the Pluriverse’s Future, what we have called, the Futuriverse. We invite everyone to join in: our only requirement is that participants dare to stop thinking that only by thinking they can solve their problems, and start feeling, sharing and trusting each other as sponsors of a collective project.

We are committed to making the most out of your time by offering emotionally available real-time assistance, plus future-oriented creative facilitation by certified experts, working hybridly across the world. Particularly for this call, we intend to take some extra time to build an environmental prototype capable of sharing the generated insights by placing the outcome of the workshop in an open space, where other EERA attendees and passersby can interact with and reimagine the future.

Our Futuroscopic exploration service includes personalised one-on-one attention to ensure the best possible experiences along the journey to the future and a pleasant comeback. Our tools have been adapted to work smoothly in local, hybrid and online setups, allowing for multiple crews all around the world to share their ideas and to build common future scenarios in parallel.

The overall time required to complete a Futuroscopic exploration journey to the future and back depends on the detail by which each crew intends to describe their experience, visualise their perceptions and reflect on their journey. To make the best out of this experience, we suggest the overall workshop to last 3 hours, time to take the participants into their future and back, across the following itinerary:

• Introduction of the Workshop and the participants 10 min
• Operating the FUTUROSCOPIO (tables / break-out rooms) 60 min
• Deconstruction of the Present (RIFADO method) 20 min
• Time Travel (choosing one portal into the Future) 5 min
• Future Reconstruction (Futuroscopic map) 25 min
• Backcasting (coming back to the present) 15 min

BREAK 15 min

• Experimental Future Representation (building a common scenario) 25 min
• Environmental Prototyping 50 min
• Testing 30 min
• Feedback 20 min
• Conclusion (sharing learnings) 20 min

Our tools have been adapted to work smoothly in local, hybrid and online setups. In any of these scenarios, the ideal crew size is about six people and we can take from one to 12 teams from all around the world in parallel.

Requirements - IMPORTANT:

• You are only eligible to attend this workshop if you are registered as participant of ECER.
• Please do NOT register for more than one workshop. We will cancel double bookings.
• Should you not be able to attend, please cancel your reservation, as there might be a waiting list.