Future Workshop

A Future Workshop is a participative, action oriented approach to determining culture aspects, legal aspects and ethics aspects in planning matters. . The aim is to generate future visions in urban development and how these can be realised.

Support for planning of secure public spaces

 * Involving citizens into the planning process;
 * Developing visions and scenarios for physical and social settings in secure urban environments;
 * Elaborating new, creative solutions for security problems or issues;
 * Developing of new projects and security management approaches.

Process description
Participants get the chance to have a say in decision making processes, and are motivated to create unconventional solutions to issues of their concern. Creativity techniques are required to activate participants.

The main phases of a future workshop are systematically and successively on one another structured:
 * 1) Criticism phase: The current situation is analysed to identify the problems and core issues;
 * 2) Fantasy phase: Ideas are developed and suggestions are worked out. Potential hampering situations are not considered in the fantasy phase;
 * 3) Realisation phase: Suggestions are structured and counter-proofed upon theire realistic feasibility. The aim is to achieve agreement on the next step.

Links and further information

 * Participation & sustainable Development in Europe. Retrieved from: http://www.partizipation.at/future-workshop.html [last access: 2012-03-16].