This workshop will explore and ‘demonstrate by doing’ the methods and tools now emerging for the Future-Oriented Collective Intelligence (FOCI) approach to foresight and strategic thinking.
We draw on the experience of Foresight 3.0, and the ongoing experiments at the Manchester Mind-Lab on the theory and practice of collective intelligence. Foresight 3.0 aims to enable and mobilize the FOCI, by working with a wider community of interest, deeper layers of meaning, and further horizons of change / transformation:
- within the foresight team – starting here with workshop participants
- across the wider community of foresight sponsors / stakeholders / users etc.
Working through case studies on the conference theme of ‘emerging practices and cultures in FOCI’, we aim to explore by demonstration:
- What kinds of collective knowledge / FOCI can be mapped
- Which methods and tools are most useful
- How the wider FOCI can be enabled and supported
Workshop outcomes: shared examples and experience in FOCI methods and tools, collective knowledge mapping, ‘emerging practices and cultures’.
