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Future envisioning breakFastsBrainstorming Session
what is liveable cities
Liveable Cities is a 5-year research project about making cities low carbon and enhancing quality of
life and wellbeing.
The project is run jointly between the Universities of Birmingham, Lancaster, Southampton and
University College London.
research topics
City Analysis Methodology
Resources
Wellbeing
Ecosystem Services
EnergyEconomic Viability
Policy and Governance
Future Visions
what are the breakFasts?
Future Visions
the aim of the breakfast is to provide design briefing to the radical engineering group.
On November 7th, experts from the retail sector will draft scenarios of their future city.
what are the breakFasts?
Future Visions
the aim of the breakfast is to provide design briefing to the radical engineering group.
On November 7th, experts from the retail sector will draft scenarios of their future city.
We are organising a series of breakfasts.We will invite experts from health care, poets, artists, lawyers etc.
what is the eXPecteD outcoMe?
the future city of ...
the future city of art
the future city of healthcare
the future city of retail
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the Futures cone
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the Futures cone
Voros (2003)
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time
prob
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Voros (2003)
now
time
prob
able
plau
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poss
ible
pref
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the Futures cone
this is what we are interested in!
three stePs
objectives questions
1. Understanding the structure of the sector today
2h
1. What does the sector do? Who is involved? Where does it do it? How does it do it?
1.2. How has the sector evolved? Interacting with what elements (eg. Political choices influence the sector etc.)
3. Radical envisioning
2. Imagining
3. Participants’ minds must be challenged to think outside the boundaries of their imagination to conceive ideas beyond what is considered possible or acceptable.
2. Imagine “preferable” futures for the sector. What will be the major changes? How will it be structured?
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why Do we neeD a hanD :)
Voros (2003)
now
time
we need toget out of here!
and help participants to think more radically
why Do we neeD a hanD :)
we need learn tools and methods to go from here to there
Voros (2003)
now
time
we need toget out of here!
and help participants to think more radically
thank you For the helP!Serena Pollastri s.pollastri@lancaster.ac.uk