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What if the opposite were true?
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What would good look like?
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What if this work is ridiculously successful?
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Collective visioning
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Prefigure & prototype
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Experiential Futures
Details
1 / Opposite Flip
A starting point for imagining an ideal future is to state all of the problems with today. And then turn them into opposite, optimistic stories of a better future. Take a statement about what frustrated you and write what the opposite would be. And you begin to describe your radically hopeful future,
2 / Specifically good
When you have something you want to change, you need to understand the problem AND the success. Practice describing the hoped for outcome looks and feels like. The more detailed, the better.
3 / Wild Success
Something that none of us reflect on enough is, what happens if it all succeeds? It is rebellious and radical to imagine that our work for change really will succeed.
4 / imagine together
It can be joyful and disruptive to give people space to imagine together. Explore the questions above, as a group, for your shared work.
5 / Make the future now
Practice the future you want to create, in small pilot tests. For an hour. In one space. With one small group of people. Act as if the future you want is already here, and assess how it feels.
6 / Build it for others
Invite people into an experience of the future. Build it out in hyper realistic detail. As an illustration, as an object, as a full-scale space with actor and props.