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==== Liminal Futures ====




=== Prelude ===

In response to the liminality brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, FoAM Filfla https://fo.am/studios/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/ 

===Phase I ===
===Literature, method and tool research===

=== Literature ===
<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

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

=== 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
  * http://www.gomoodboard.com (from [[:futurist_fieldguide/moodboards|Moodboards]]
Impact mapping
  * https://static1.squarespace.com/static/561274a7e4b0671bb41d839f/t/5e6e24f30f431516e192e3c9/1584276724550/Futures+Wheel+A2.pdf|Futures wheel template. Also about : https://medium.com/practical-futuring/mapping-impacts-and-implications-74e737312191 - Futures Wheels help illuminate pathways of change.



===Phase II===
===Interviews & Conversations===

=== Phase III===
=== Analysis & Reflection===

=== Notes ===



=== Tangent Notes  ===
  * 
  * https://fo.am/publications/art-futuring/
  * https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/files/things/01379/200414MagazineCocreatingDeepDemocracykle.pdf
  * https://fo.am/publications/futurists-fieldguide/ and [[:futurist_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