Future Workshop
A Future Workshop is a participative, action oriented approach to determining culture aspects, legal aspects and ethics aspects in planning matters.[1]. The aim is to generate future visions in urban development and how these can be realized.
Contents
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:
- Criticism phase: The current situation is analysed to identify the problems and core issues;
- Fantasy phase: ideas are developed and suggestions are worked out. Potential hampering situations are not considered in the fantasy phase;
- Realization phase: suggestions are structured and counter-proofed upon there realistic feasibility. The aim is to achieve agreement on the next step.
Links and further information
- Participation & sustainable development in Europe: URL: http://www.partizipation.at/future-workshop.html [2012-03-16].
Footnotes and references
- ↑ Vidal R.V.V.: The Future Workshop Chapter 6. Creative and participative problem solving – the art and the science. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling.Technical University of Denmark, 2006. Retrieved from http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~rvvv/CPPS/6Chapter6Thefutureworkshop.pdf [2012-05-10].
