Identify signals
Teams selected current trends, tensions and emerging changes that could shape the years ahead.
Activity 03 · Imagination
Future-scenario design
International teams transformed research into contrasting stories about where present-day choices might lead.
Scenarios made complex systems visible and discussable. By building several possible futures—not only one ideal vision—participants tested assumptions, recognised trade-offs and saw how individual, community and political decisions interact.
Programme flow
Choose critical decisions
They identified moments where action, delay or uneven responsibility could change the direction.
Build contrasting futures
Each team developed coherent social, environmental and economic conditions for its scenario.
Present & challenge
Scenarios were shared, questioned and revised through feedback from the wider group.
Methods used
- Trend and signal mapping
- Cause-and-consequence chains
- Creative writing and visual storytelling
- International teamwork
- Peer feedback
Learning outcomes
- Improved ability to think beyond short-term effects
- Stronger creative and analytical collaboration
- Better understanding of uncertainty and trade-offs
- A practical method for discussing complex futures