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Ethics is a historical process by which we reflect upon the impact of new ideas and technologies on our lives. In terms of its practice, ethics is a discipline that has evolved from a classic philosophy, centred on humanistic values, to a post-human approach that goes beyond our individuality, integrating other epistemologies and sources of knowledge.
What has been labelled as undesirable attitudes changes across cultures and throughout time. Even if there is a general consensus that murder and child abuse are nefarious, there are other forms of structural violence which have not yet reached the same degree of broad consensus, as ongoing social struggles and disputes show. Many times these challenges are labelled “controversial” because social movements or individuals challenge the status quo that maintains privileges for certain fringes of society or individuals.
Our aim with this workshop is to build an environmental future scenario where participants can reflect, from an intersectional perspective, on their own subjectivity and “place of speech”, envisioning possible scenarios where privilege is used against structural forms of violence.
Based on a collective journey in the FUTUROSCOPIO, this scenario will be built by integrating the feelings and perceptions of multiple crews across their journey and turned into an on-site installation to invite EERA attendees and passersby to experience a shared future vision.
Methodology, Methods, Research Instruments or Sources Used We are looking forward to engaging with future enthusiasts, people from diverse backgrounds, multiple disciplines, and across all different ages interested in exploring the Pluriverse’s Future, what we have called, the Futuriverse. We invite everyone to join in: our only requirement is that participants dare to stop thinking that only by thinking they can solve their problems, and start feeling, sharing and trusting each other as sponsors of a collective project.
We are committed to making the most out of your time by offering emotionally available real-time assistance, plus future-oriented creative facilitation by certified experts, working hybridly across the world. Particularly for this call, we intend to take some extra time to build an environmental prototype capable of sharing the generated insights by placing the outcome of the workshop in an open space, where other EERA attendees and passersby can interact with and reimagine the future.
Our Futuroscopic exploration service includes personalised one-on-one attention to ensure the best possible experiences along the journey to the future and a pleasant comeback. Our tools have been adapted to work smoothly in local, hybrid and online setups, allowing for multiple crews all around the world to share their ideas and to build common future scenarios in parallel.
The overall time required to complete a Futuroscopic exploration journey to the future and back depends on the detail by which each crew intends to describe their experience, visualise their perceptions and reflect on their journey. To make the best out of this experience, we suggest the overall workshop to last 3 hours, time to take the participants into their future and back, across the following itinerary:
Introduction of the Workshop and the participants 10 min
Operating the FUTUROSCOPIO (tables / break-out rooms) 60 min
Deconstruction of the Present (RIFADO method) 20 min
Time Travel (choosing one portal into the Future) 5 min
Future Reconstruction (Futuroscopic map) 25 min
Backcasting (coming back to the present) 15 min
BREAK 15 min
Experimental Future Representation (building a common scenario) 25 min
Environmental Prototyping 50 min
Testing 30 min
Feedback 20 min
Conclusion (sharing learnings) 20 min
TOTAL: 180 minutes
Our tools have been adapted to work smoothly in local, hybrid and online setups. In any of these scenarios, the ideal crew size is about six people and we can take from one to 12 teams from all around the world in parallel.
Conclusions, Expected Outcomes or Findings Gathered over an infinity of future visions, we hold a few pieces of evidence of what previous crews have discovered throughout their Futuroscopic journeys. Every chance to engage with future enthusiasts represents an opportunity to extend our FUTURES LIBRARY, adding new scenarios into a comprehensive reader of the times-to-come.
This compilation aims at raising awareness on the biopolitical mechanisms of control and liberation that ideas such as universal history, time and future reflect and perpetuate. We truly believe that role playing alternative futures may be the first step to actually making things happen, relegating those who live their present absorbed by their past, unprepared to face increasingly complicated challenges and consequently more likely to abandon their expectations: demotivated, unwillingly adapting to others’ desires and away from their own needs.
In the quest to liberate us from domestication, FUTUROSCOPIO invites players to stop and change the points of view by which usually perceive reality, weaving new memories, embedded in between synapses that keep identity vivid, acknowledging our agency to transform our present into better possible places, while extending the scale of the circle of influence by choosing play as an open attitude for a meaningful long-life education.
From this perspective FUTUROSCOPIO is not only a roleplay game, but a provocation to deal with complex issues over fantastic narratives that bring out the best from each participant, appealing to them as active writers of a common story. References This project has been played, presented and exhibited in the following events:
2019: Miradas desde 2050 - Centro de Investigaciones de Diseño Industrial, UNAM
2020: 2a Bienal de Artes y Diseño - Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, UNAM
2020: FUTUROSCOPIO - Selected and exhibited at Premio Diseña México [Finalists]
2020: FUTUROSCOPIO - Selected and exhibited at Abierto Mexicano de Diseño
2020: Ministr3s del Pluriverso - Centro de Cultura Digital [PDF]
2021: Estética Lúdica Futuroscópica - Conferencia magistral [Video]
2022: Converting a Tabletop Serious Game Into a Digital Version, by Joanna Gladh [MAU]
2023: Futuroscopio - Interesting worlds to come [STS Italia Conference]
2023: FUTUROSCOPIO [Print and Play]
