Incasting is about delving deep into scenarios, expanding on glimpses of the future, creating more complete worlds and stories filled with rich detail. While incasting is an engaging and creative way to explore scenarios, it can also help surface inconsistencies, assumptions and (cognitive) biases. While it's often (relatively) easily to agree on the general outline of a future, elaborating the specifics and complexities can raise surprising and revealing discussions. Furthermore, when incasting is applied to familiar contexts and using known formats, the differences and similarities between the present and future can become more apparent and open for further examination.

• Storytelling
• Worldbuilding (incl. pantopicon’s agora approach)
• Backstory
• “A day in a life”
• Diary from the future
• Flash fiction
• Science fiction (and other types of speculative fiction)
• Infrastructure fiction
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