Hub Futures Explorers Prospection Session 30/4 2013

Adam Jorlen, Futurist & Helen Palmer, Change Facilitator

Copyright: Joseph Voros

Generic Foresight Process

Prospection What might happen? Create “forward views” or “images of the

future” We cannot know the future, and therefore

we have to envision and subsequently create it.

Purpose: To generate some alternative futures.

Visioning Scenarios

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Archetype The Wanderer

The Wise Elder

The World Changer

The Disruptor

The Artist

The Clown

A.K.A

Variants

“The Serendipity Seeker”

The Wise woman,The Wise man,The Wizard

The Do-Gooder,The Social Innovator, The Dreamer

The HackerThe entrepreneur

The Creative, The Bohemian

The JesterThe TricksterThe HoboThe TrampThe Bum

‘Call to Adventure’

New ideas, people, places…

Serendipity

A community of changemakers

An opportunity to break, hack/disrupt

Inspiration To become a wise teacher of society (the wise fool)

When do they leave the scene/game?

They always leave for new things. You cannot keep these.

In a coffin… When the system is hacked.

When their artwork is finished. When they’re no longer inspired.

When the show is over

Metaneeds Novelty, Aliveness, Process

Unity-Wholeness, Transcendence

Compassion, Goodness,

Radical Change,

Beauty, Creativity

Playfulness, Audience, Absurdity

Pathogenic Deprivation

Boredom, Mechanizing of life

Black/White dichotomies, Fragmentation

Frustration, Injustice, Cynicism

Insecurity, Cynicism, Anger

Ugliness, Loss of taste

Humorlessness, Depression

The Patron

What’s his ‘call to adventure’?

A missing archetype…

The bridges between… 1. Ownership and Members. The bridge between is freedom. Hubbers are free agents and they enact their agential freedom and identify with, and own, their individual and collective actions. They live a freedom of self enfolded within larger collective fields of freedom. 

2. Members and Structure. The bridge between is wisdom. Hubbers enact wise choice. Within the field of choice, wise action is clarified and catalysed. Their agency and intentional structures catalyse novel solutions to seemingly impossible problems. 

3. Structure and Ownership. The bridge between is hope. Hubbers create their futures within varieties of fields of hope. As owners of their futures, they write the script, build the scaffolds, and create the structures that enable the realisation of hopeful futures.

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Visioning A vision is a compelling, inspiring

statement of a preferred future which we want to create.

Imagine new, completely different futures from today.

But not how to create these… Opens up a creative space free from

constraints.

Visioning Exercise

Scenarios

Copyright: Maree Conway – Thinking Futures - http://thinkingfutures.net/resources/scenario-planning/ - Adapted from Ged Davis, Scenarios as a Tool for the 21st Century, Shell International, 2002.

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Scenario Weaving

Output

The output phase is the most visible part of the Generic Foresight Process to the general public…

… if more people can be attracted and tempted by well-designed and thought-provoking output from foresight processes, more people will think about and act on their preferred futures.

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