This document outlines a workshop method for creating future scenarios. It involves: 1) Printing out existing scenarios and personas for inspiration. 2) Getting feedback on the scenarios through discussion questions on post-its. 3) Having participants design their own scenarios using templates. 4) Enabling visual scenario design through printed visual elements. 5) Allowing collaboration to create shared scenarios using the large poster format.

1. Make your Future
 Description of the Method
 We have created four scenarios which you can see above based on the stories people
across the local groups have shared with us about they making a living.
 We now want the opportunity for people to be able to create their own scenario on how
they want to make a living in 2020
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2. Browse scenarios
 Description of the Method
 All the materials you need to print out are at http://bit.ly/futurescenarioseurope
 First print out the four A1 Scenarios which are in the Scenarios folder of the above
weblink and their Personas.doc which explains them. Encourage people to look at these
scenarios to give them inspiration about how people will make a living in 2020.
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3. Share your thoughts
 Print out the Bubbles document from the http://bit.ly/futurescenarioseurope and display them next
to each of the four Scenario posters as you can see above.
 Ask people to write down on post its and add to the bubbles answers to the questions: How do you
feel when you look at this scenario? What opportunities does this person have? What challenges
does this person face? Is there anything in this scenario that you identify with? What advice would
you give this person?
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4. Make your Future
 Print out the Template A5 document from http://bit.ly/futurescenarioseurope
 After interacting with the four scenarios, invite people to design their own on a template
under the heading “What does my future look like?” on their individual templates
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5. Visualise your Scenario
 To enable participants to think visually, we have produced sheets of visual elements
(such as above) for them to cut out and use in their visualisations. Print several copies of
these at http://bit.ly/futurescenarioseurope (come under different PDF names).
 All the visual elements come from the original scenarios so people can create posters
similar to the scenarios above. They can take their scenario poster home with them!
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6. Collaborative Scenario
 People can also use the larger version of the poster to do this with other people as you
can see above to create a collaborative scenario!
 Photograph the scenarios and share these online!
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