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City scenarios as a theater play

DAC – Dwellers in Agile Cities was a research consortium funded by the Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council for the years 2016-2019. The sub-projects focused on sustainable urban development: Mapping the future mega-trends and weak signals of future urbanization, Carrying out action research within socially diverse and ecologically sustainable solutions, Scrutinizing the variety of urban interaction as a platform for robust urbanization, and Creating spatial examples of innovative and flexible housing and living. In a sub-project of creating roadmap to agile cities, four qualitative scenarios were built. Based on scenarios, arts-based methods were utilized to create narrative performance presenting scenarios in a form of 20 minutes theatre play. It has been performed in various seminars and conferences.

http://www.agilecities.fi/en/

Lead organisation

VTT - Research and education actor ( Private research and innovation support organisations (RTOs) )

https://www.vttresearch.com/en

Top foresight methods

  • Scenarios
  • Role play/Acting
  • Simulation Gaming
  • Personal Futures
  • Conferences
  • Visioning / Vision building
  • Science Fictioning

Application Area

  • Territorial and Urban Development

Objectives

  • Unique combination building on futures studies and arts-based methods simultaneously
  • Can be located methodologially as a part of narrative foresight
  • Comprehensive set of data collected among different audiences
  • Hybric methodology proposes new theoretical openings for futures studies

Critical Issues from assessment: