Slides to run a Future Views workshop, to consult partners and/or young people to inform future planning for cultural and educational offers.

1. Future Views
Workshop
futureviewstoolkit.com

2. The Challenge!

3. Education and arts organisations are:
that in the far future all
young people can be
creative wherever they live
for years to come…
to ensure…
Working now in
the present day…
and they need to know what you think

4. …that the UK is a creative
powerhouse, and has been for a
long time.
Did you know …
Tourism
Museums and
Heritage
Theatre and Drama
Music

5. BUT THAT IS
AT RISK!
Artists don't
earn enough
with rising
costs of
living
Bigger tuition
fees and debt
at University
97% digital
businesses
small and
vulnerable
Arts and technical subjects
squeezed out of schools
Uncertainty in
UK economy
Local
places
losing
theatres
and
museums

6. To view the future
takes imagination

7. Now Near Future Far Future
Identify
the current drivers
for change.

8. Now Near Future Far Future
Identify
the current drivers
for change.
Focus
on the impact.
What will this
mean?

9. Now Near Future Far Future
Identify
the current drivers
for change.
Focus
on the impact.
What will this
mean?
Develop
ideas. What
new things will
exist?

10. Now Near Future Far Future
Identify
the current drivers
for change.
Focus
on the impact.
What will this
mean?
Develop
ideas. What
new things will
exist?
Imagine
What will our
future world
be like?

11. Let’s get started!

12. Level 1 - Now
ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM

13. Identify your top Gamechangers
Zoom out…
What are some big things
happening in the world that
might affect your access to
culture and creativity?

14. Zoom in…
What barriers are there locally
for young people’s cultural and
creative lives?
Identify as many barriers as you can

15. Zoom in again…
What stops you personally from
engaging more in culture and
creativity?
Identify your own barriers

16. Level 2 – Near Future
Impact!

17. Focus on the impact. What
will this mean?
In the near future
What impacts will your barriers
and gamechangers have
caused?

18. Tag your ideas as positive,
negative, or both.
In the near future
What impacts will your barriers
and gamechangers have
caused?

19. It’s hard to know …
which way things will go

20. Flip it! How will people use
creativity to solve problems?
Develop ideas. What new
things will exist?

21. Why does it matter?
CULTURE is all the
ways art and
creativity are
saved, shared and
interpreted
Whatever changes
we will always NEED
ART: to sing, dance,
make images, tell
stories
Creativity can help us solve problems

22. Welcome to the Future!
We have arrived!

23. Level 3 – Far Future
The neXt factor

24. In the far future what will make
your place creative and fun to live
in? New technologies? Things we
would recognise from today?
Imagine: What creative
activities will people enjoy?

25. In the far future what kinds of
people will we need in a thriving
creative place?
Imagine: What skills and attitudes
would people need?

26. Draw a triangle with the words
work, learning and play in the
corners.
Arrange your post-it notes
where they work best.
Where are the gaps?
Work
PlayLearning
People will enjoy
crative activities
like ____________
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People will use
creativity to____
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People will enjoy
crative activities
like ____________
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People will enjoy
crative activities
like ____________
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People will enjoy
crative activities
like ____________
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People will use
creativity to____
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People will use
creativity to____
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People will use
creativity to____
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People will use
creativity to____
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27. You have successfully imagined
what the future needs!
Let’s tell the
people in the present day

28. For young people in
the far future
to have a thriving
creative life
To someone
back in the
present day
What your local area needs now

29. Who can you ask?
Government
PM and Ministers
MPs represent your
area. Debate and
vote in Parliament to
make laws & spend
tax £.
Local authority:
Your councillors,
and Officers of
Children’s
Services &
Arts/Culture
Services
Minister for Culture,
Department for
Culture, Sport &
Leisure
ACE Officers Arts
Council of
England.
£ & policy.
Bridge organisations
support arts and
education links in your
region
Local Cultural
Education Partnerships:
School heads, Theatre
directors, Museum
managers, Music
services, Employers, etc.

30. To:
We would like you to: ____________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
So that we can have a thriving creative future.

31. What about you?
What message would you send yourself?

32. Thank you
Have a wonderful future!