The Thing from the Future
Objectives:
- Generate futures scenarios and ideas.
- Practice futures thinking and literacy skills.
Preparation: Print out the card deck and playsheets. NOTE! The website mentioned on the resources is not the orginal and can be shut any moment. If you use the game, please give credit to the creators Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson @ situationlab.org 2015.
Tools needed: Card deck and playsheets of the game. Pens.
Description
For group play:
1. Form a group of 2-6 players. Shuffle deck well and deal out one dozen cards each.
2. Starting with the dealer, compose a creative prompt by taking turns placing cards of different “suits” on the table (suits are indicated by the letter at the top of each card). Take turns placing cards until the suit letters on the tops of the cards spell the
word, ATOM. A complete prompt has one and only one of each letter.
3. Each player writes down the four elements of the prompt on the playsheet. Players come up with their own brief description (and a drawing of it if agreed) of their thing from the future. according to the cards. This gets easier as the groups imagination warms up!
4. When everyone is ready, they share future thing ideas with the group.
5. The creator of the group’s favorite idea wins the cards in play. Whoever has earned the most cards when play ends wins overall.
Variations
The cards can be used alone. The ideas can be formed in small groups.
The cards and the ideas can be used as discussion opener without competitive element.
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Resources
https://atelierdesfuturs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CandyWatson_2015_FUTURETHING_Print-and-Play.pdf NOTE! The official site of the game has expired and this resource is not the original one! If you use the game, please give credits to the creators: Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson @ situationlab.org 2015. Also the cards file can be taken out any moment.
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