Our growing forest of methods
We create futures stories and futures ecologies that are inspired by bio-, techno- and mythology. Our methods draw from the fields of ecosystems science, futures thinking, anthropology, AI, neuroscience, and speculative design.
Narratives of Change
The cycle of narrative change shows four modes of systemic change (paradigm change) and offers a framework to explore opportunities for dealing with change.
Panarchy
Panarchy provides a framework for the adaptive, alternating cycles (eco)systems go through. It iterates between growth (r), conservation (K), collapse/release (Ω) and reorganization (α) at multiple levels. It is based on the natural cycles of life that alternate between growth and death.
Future Cone
The Future Cone is a tool to explore possible futures. The neat thing is that you can diverge first, include even ‘preposterous’ futures before narrowing down to more probable and desireable futures.
Science fiction prototyping
A science fiction prototype is a short story, movie, or comic with one or more main characters, based specifically on (scientific) facts for the purpose of exploring the implications, effects and ramifications of science or technology
Three Horizons
The Three Horizons model was developed by Sharpe et al. (2016) in response to the need for methods and practices that can help facilitate transformative change.
Futures Wheel
Futures Wheel is a method of working out graphical visualization of direct and indirect future consequences of a particular change or development, developed by scientist Jerome C. Glenn in the 1970s.