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Run a different kind of strategy workshop for your team.
Join the research project and get randomly assigned to Workshop Group 1, 2, or 3. Choose your 2150 name, evaluate the current state of infrastructure sustainability and set visions for 2050. Then become a NeoPlanner, Humanist or Planeteer to negotiate a way forward.
Pressed for time? please: Go to the Round-1 Workshops to see what might be asked of you > Ask Questions > Register. Thank you.
The Setting
The Setting
Three groups of collaborators will be invited to take part in workshops that "take place" in a future imagined in a comic book called Vanishing Point! created by the Lead Researcher. Here is the scenario:
Imagine the year is 2150, human civilisation has survived and is thriving. Nonetheless, civilisation was on the verge of collapse between 2023 and 2050 if not for the actions of a few key people. You, along with the others in your workshop group, were one of them. Unfortunately, though, almost all records and recollections from that time period, which ended in an event known as the "Vanishing Point", were destroyed back then, but you remember.
You have awoken in the 2150 civilisation that you envisaged as a preferred future, and you have attracted the curiosity of academics of the time. One of these scholars is historian Lisette Granger. She is particularly interested in the history of the built environment and infrastructure, which has changed drastically since the Vanishing Point.
In the comic, Lisette will talk to your group about what is known about civilisation up until 2023 to prompt your memories and thoughts. However, she is anxious to know what happened between 2023 and 2050 to understand the key events that have shaped 2150 civilisation. Only your group has that knowledge, and Lisette needs your assistance.
Lisette does not want to create bias by telling you too much about what happened after 2023 and she knows nothing about the preferred future you imagined all those decades ago. You will need to tell Lisette these things and this is the setting for the Round 1 workshops.
Each group will look at the 2150 future from a particular perspective, as follows:
Round 1 Workshops Groups
Round 1 Workshops Groups
Collaborators will be chosen from those registering interest in participating in the research. If there are more registrants than spaces available, selection criteria will be applied. After invitees sign a consent form, the Lead Researcher will randomly assign contributors to Workshop Group 1, 2, or 3.
Each collaborator will be invited to choose a pseudonym, a pretend 2150 name they will use in the workshop. This will help protect privacy and also add a fun dimension to the work.
Round 2 Workshop Groups
Round 2 Workshop Groups
Research collaborators will pick one of three groups to attend the Round 2 session. Since each group needs an equal number of people, spots will be awarded first-come, first-served. Allocations will be made as fairly as possible by balancing people's second choices if they don't get their first choice.
The three groups and their descriptions are:
The NeoPlanners Group
The NeoPlanners Group
NeoPlanners will be infrastructure specialists interested in alternate infrastructure strategy. Selected infrastructure professionals will evaluate infrastructure plan formulation, set a target infrastructure state for beyond 2050, and consider ways to make infrastructure strategy more future-fit. Professionals will be consultants, planners, decision-makers, regulators, funders, owners, and operators. They will be from the transportation, energy, telecommunications, water, defence, housing, health, or justice infrastructure sectors. They may be public, private, or academic actors worldwide.
The Humanists Group
The Humanists Group
The Humanists will be a group of social media connections interested in how resources for infrastructure can be used better without jeopardizing human wellbeing.
The group will consider the actual and target (beyond 2050) states of human wellbeing as a potential human-centered method to inform how infrastructure strategy can be devised.
The Humanists would also reflect on the Built Hierarchy model (discussed here) as an approach for considering human-centered infrastructure priorities.
The Planeteers Group
The Planeteers Group
The Planeteers will be a group interested in improving natural wellbeing so that nature and people can co-exist more equally.
The group will be established to offer opinions and assist in developing a framework that takes nature into account while developing human infrastructure.
The Planeteers would consider how a model of natural wellbeing can be constructed as a complement to the Built Hierarchy model that will be examined by the Humanists.
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