Futurists Writers' Room
FUTURISTS WRITERS' ROOM OVERVIEW
How can we use our imagination and storytelling to disrupt old norms and imagine new normals in which cultural, economic, and political systems are designed to engender greater levels of trust, justice, inclusion, equity, beauty, and balance with the earth? From the alchemy of our community of practice, GoFA was able to develop a signature offering called The Futurist Writers’ Room (FWR). Informed by the speculative future practices of changemakers such as Adrienne Maree Brown, the methodologies of the USC World Building Institute, MIT’s Co-Creation Studio, as well as Sundance Institute’s New Frontier, the FWR helps future architects develop compelling and deeply grounded visions of the future.
As a tool for rapid prototyping, the FWR works with participants to create a multitude of speculative historiographies that result in a shared set of design principles and a speculative future narrative that results in a shared vision. The FWR framework catalyzes a collective imagination of the future as a precursor to support the development of Shared Futures, that can prototype those ideas.This programs offers participants pedagogical tools for sparking a collective design and imagination process for realizing a more inclusive, just, equitable, and optimal future.
HOW TO BEGIN
AGENDA
Introduction -- Goals of a FWR (10 min)
Somatic Meditation (10 min)
Speculative narrative (15 min) -- Reading -- Modeling
Alternative History (50 min)
Break (10 min)
Aspirational Future (50 min)
Break (5 min)
Learning Outcomes (30)
End (Total time: 3 hours)
HOMEWORK
Review the Presentation Rubric
Origin story
Share something vulnerable.
Share relevant experience.
Story of the present work
Share information that proves you are reliable.
Write a speculative future. (1000+ words each)
Write a one page summary of stories (origin story, present action and speculative future)
Craft a 3 to 5 min oral story for the presentation that includes origin, current work, and future vision.
Facilitators
Link to Materials
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