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==== Liminal Futures ====






=== Prelude ===

In response to the liminality brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, FoAM Filfla started a self-study of tools and techniques for creative exploration of futures. We wish to develop our futuring skills and encourage an engaged re-imagining of possible futures in liminal times.

Liminality is a state in between – or in transition – from one state to another. It can be period of transformation, yet also of disorientation, waiting and indecision. Old habits, identities and beliefs begin to disintegrate in liminal states, making space for something new. The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown many of us into a liminal state with no clear path forward. Multiple futures are almost within our grasp, but discussing or otherwise engaging with these futures can be overwhelming.

We are interested in futuring as a creative process, capable of restoring a sense of agency and possibility. We explore imaginative approaches to futures by combining tools from Futures studies, hosting and process facilitation, performing arts, visual art, design and storytelling, among others. We use collaborative action research methods to learn about futuring in the fields of arts and design and Appreciative Inquiry to build on what is already working well. In conversation with our mentors, futurists and designers, we collect and experiment with future-probing methods. We are particularly keen to learn, develop and document tools that can be adapted to online workshops with teens, young adults and culture makers.


=== Motivation ===
This is where we come from:

https://subetha.fo.am/p/acm_research_grant_2020

https://fo.am/blog/2020/06/26/some-practices-uncertainty/ 


=== Methods ===

Collaborative Action Research \\

STEEP Analysis \\
https://ivto.org/steep-explained-foresight-cards/

Deep Democracy \\
https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/files/things/01379/200414MagazineCocreatingDeepDemocracykle.pdf
https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/all/blog/deep+democracy+for+a+good+conversation+a+better+conflict+and+the+best+decision/
http://www.aamindell.net/worldwork 


=== Tools ===

Online Collaboration
https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks
https://bigbluebutton.org/
Group scenario mapping tools?
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kuZplA8=/
https://app.wisemapping.com/c/maps/3/try

=== Notes ===
<blockquote> "actively sensing," or being someone who is generally always attuned and open to new signals, requires taking care of the equipment that allows you to do so.</blockquote>

https://medium.com/practical-futuring/managing-abyss-gaze-in-a-time-of-difficult-futures-3836b464182e \\
Article from Changeist about how to keep your sensing abilities from getting overwhelmed

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(possible technique)
<blockquote> Futures Wheels, this tool helps illuminate pathways of change, by starting with an initial major change at the center, then working outward in steps of immediate first-order impacts, then from each of these, branching to second-order impacts, then third, or until you run out of space.</blockquote>
https://medium.com/practical-futuring/mapping-impacts-and-implications-74e737312191 \\
Futures Wheel - a tool that might help bring some structure and logic to these bursts of distributed group ideation. 



Changeist futures wheel template:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/561274a7e4b0671bb41d839f/t/5e6e24f30f431516e192e3c9/1584276724550/Futures+Wheel+A2.pdf

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Online tools:
http://www.gomoodboard.com

from [[https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/moodboards?s[]=futuring|Moodboards]]

also maybe https://miro.com 

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Breaking official futures

<blockquote>The stories we tell ourselves about the future, whether it’s the timelessness of a particular business model, the hegemony of an economic system, the durability of an ideology, or the boundaries of social or political acceptability can become barriers to change if they’re not periodically revisited, revised, and adapted for present realities which point to shifting future possibilities...</blockquote>

<blockquote>Perhaps the best way to describe an official future is as a positive, up-and-to-the-right-forever mission statement....
</blockquote>

<blockquote>A more productive process is to frame a better question through researching the landscape of possible issues ahead that might influence or affect emergent futures, then, if appropriate, developing a few conceivable scenarios based on how future goals and the possible landscape might interact. This is the time to consider how best to navigate toward a preferred future in which those goals might be met within each scenario. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Clinging to an official future not only leaves us with outdated beliefs and ineffective plans, but it potentially deprives many of us of the agency to realize the futures we want and deserve.</blockquote>

Susan Cox-Smith - Changeist
https://medium.com/practical-futuring/reexamining-official-futures-c7caef4f588c

=== Tangent Notes  ===


https://fo.am/publications/art-futuring/
https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/files/things/01379/200414MagazineCocreatingDeepDemocracykle.pdf
https://fo.am/publications/futurists-fieldguide/
https://extrapolationfactory.com/About
https://libarynth.org/futurist_fieldguide/inhabiting_uncertainty
https://playbook.noulab.org/mental-models/breath-pattern-divergence-emergence-convergence
https://www.zeitguised.com/about-0
https://timesup.org/overview/processes_2012 
http://timesup.org/blogs
https://loosediary.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/besseres-denken/
https://www.changeist.com/
https://medium.com/phase-change/mapping-impacts-and-implications-74e737312191
https://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/scenario_methods
https://futureeverything.org/project/entry/building-a-citizens-observatory/
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-03-18/coronavirus-degrowth-and-self-isolation/?fbclid=IwAR1yCXuTxRkyXXXfr7vojI-_ARuTInGPq0whHyudEeGMvPGrLUXWS-HO1F4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3XGZ5rreE - Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfAmvdeZD4 - Some Bleak Circus 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HabyJi66l0w - Situation is way to serious to panic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfWIMPredyI - Zizek, there is no back to normal
https://zizekanalysis.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/being-not-without-having-it-in-covid-19-times-hal-odetta/?fbclid=IwAR3j0xlQAlAnBhHGdNUtPWtbtlNp9t6XGrsQ0kEh6bag5xPRl83QeGSBqnw
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4336075-coronavirus-pandemic-be-end-of-middle-class
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/coronavirus-fight-white-house-health-advisor-fauci-says-we-never-get-back-to-normal.html
https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/beyond-the-breakdown-three-meditations-on-a-possible-aftermath-by-franco-bifo-berardi/9727
https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/pandemic/ 
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/franz-kafkas-masterclass-on-social-distancing
https://m.focus.de/finanzen/boerse/experten/was-die-weltwirtschaft-noch-erwartet-corona-krise-wir-sind-erst-in-phase-2-von-4-am-ende-steht-die-systemfrage_id_11775960.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoRlMXFy5Mw
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
https://sandberg.nl/fellows-in-process-lectures-evening-by-hannes-grassegger-and-varia
https://libarynth.org/foam_project_criteria
http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-are-we-tired-all-the-time/
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/no-new-normal/2020/04/02
https://medium.com/aperiodic-mesmerism/thriving-in-uncertainty-d74b75020b05
https://makezine.com/2020/04/03/the-benefits-of-masks-for-all-to-fight-covid-19/
https://www.maltachamber.org.mt/en/the-malta-chamber---we-must-prepare-for-and-seize-the-opportunities-ahead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ssu743GYz0&feature=youtu.be Reading of Shy Radicals with HAMJA AHSAN