Future Workshop
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Future Workshop
Future workshop is a citizen participation method to determine culture aspects, legal aspects and ethics aspects in planning matters. Future workshop is a popular participative, action oriented approach used for a variety of purposes[1]. 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 peoples. The aim is to generate future visions in urban development and how these can be realized.
Process description
The main phases of a future workshop are systematically and successively on one another structured:
- Criticism phase: The current situation ist analyzed 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 counterproofed upon there realistic feasibility. The aim is to achieve agreement on the next step.
How does it support in 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.
Links and further information
- Participation & sustainable development in Europe: URL: http://www.partizipation.at/future-workshop.html [2012-03-16].
Footnotes and references
- ↑ Apel H. (2004): The Future Workshop. Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung. Retrieved from http://www.die-bonn.de/esprid/dokumente/doc-2004/apel04_02.pdf [2012-05-10].; Vidal R.V.V. (2006): The Future Workshop Chapter 6. Creative and participative problem solving – the art and the science. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling.Technical University of Denmark. Retrieved from http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~rvvv/CPPS/6Chapter6Thefutureworkshop.pdf [2012-05-10].
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