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| ==== Confabulation ==== | ==== Confabulation ==== | ||
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| working notes of Future Fabulators | working notes of Future Fabulators | ||
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| “Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous” Dator’s 2nd Law of the Future (Dator 1995) | “Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous” Dator’s 2nd Law of the Future (Dator 1995) | ||
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| * 'but why...' | * 'but why...' | ||
| * how do we encourage a sense of agency amongst the participants when discussing and developing ' | * how do we encourage a sense of agency amongst the participants when discussing and developing ' | ||
| + | * what are the historical and current examples of experimental arts and culture as speculative/ | ||
| + | * What is the relationship between storytelling and fortunetelling? | ||
| + | * What online tools exist to make statistical analysis (and other aspects of futures research) available for non-expert futurists? | ||
| * how do we clarify that what we’re doing is not about predicting the future, but about empowering people to be more aware of their present situation and clarify what they could do today to shape their actions to encourage a preferred possible future? | * how do we clarify that what we’re doing is not about predicting the future, but about empowering people to be more aware of their present situation and clarify what they could do today to shape their actions to encourage a preferred possible future? | ||
| * what other forms can ' | * what other forms can ' | ||
| * what is the shortest and/or longest time in which we can complete meaningful scenario workshops and/or prehearsals to come up with interesting results while keeping the process enjoyable for the participants? | * what is the shortest and/or longest time in which we can complete meaningful scenario workshops and/or prehearsals to come up with interesting results while keeping the process enjoyable for the participants? | ||
| * what other methods, aside from scenario building, are used to discuss possible futures? | * what other methods, aside from scenario building, are used to discuss possible futures? | ||
| - | * what can we borrow from other fields, such as; improv, | + | * what techniques |
| + | * what is the state of the art in enacting [[ possible futures parallel presents|possible futures / parallel presents]] (e.g. micronations, | ||
| + | * how can we help increase the commitment of the participants to work towards their preferred future(s)? how much follow-up is needed? | ||
| + | * how could we enable participants to use digital tools to enrich the process, while avoiding distractions and displacements of email, social media, etc? what collaborative digital tools could we use to share the same digital working surface (something like Reactable for example) | ||
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| + | ==== scenario database ==== | ||
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| + | 20140205 While editing [[scenarios]] it became apparent how tricky it is to keep a consistency in information and layout of the scenarios. The scenario database we're planning to make should make this easier. Components that seem to be needed in all scenarios: | ||
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| + | * what is the question? | ||
| + | * what are the scenario axes? | ||
| + | * sometimes we have a short answer to the question (usually created after making the scenarios) | ||
| + | * how far in the future does the scenario take place? | ||
| + | * scenario description | ||
| + | * genaral image(s) | ||
| + | * more specific/ | ||
| + | * links to the pages of related scenarios (and a ' | ||
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| + | should we try to contextualise the scenarios directly in the database? | ||
| + | * a section with links to projects/ | ||
| + | * section on how the scenario is turned into a prehearsal (could be in the form of a 'day in the life of..."? | ||
| + | * reflections on the prehearsal | ||
| + | * etc. | ||
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| + | or should we keep the database only as a 'short story collection'? | ||
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| + | a rather bad example of a scenario database is the [[http:// | ||
| + | ==== software & protocols ==== | ||
| + | * open formats > closed formats | ||
| + | * utf-8 > ascii/ | ||
| + | * documents | ||
| + | * utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, | ||
| + | * pdf for reference & archiving | ||
| + | * [[: | ||
| + | * semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode -> #ff ?) | ||
| + | * asyncronous; | ||
| + | * algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git | ||
| + | * online | ||
| + | * **libarynth** for text, tangents and collation -> http:// | ||
| + | * **flickr** for image matter -> http:// | ||
| + | * **vimeo** for video matter -> http:// | ||
| + | * **zotero** for library and references -> https:// | ||
| + | * potentially | ||
| + | * tumblr, cargo, diasp, other? | ||
| + | * prediction book | ||
| + | * wikipedia | ||
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| + | === natality === | ||
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| + | Hanna Arendt and ' | ||
| + | Voor Arendt is ' | ||
| + | http:// | ||
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