Imagining 2050 Toolkit

This toolkit offers guidance on futures-thinking tied to more inclusive, equal, and reason-based participation processes. The potential of this approach hinges on the importance of considering various and ever-evolving preferred future alternatives emerging from politically connected, socially inclusive, and self-reflective practices.

Imagining2050 proposes the ‘Deliberative Futures Workshop’ as an interactive and future-focused model for local community engagement. We propose a three-stage process to support communities in developing alternative ways to look and plan for the future.

Stage1 involves recruiting an inclusive mix of participants and identifying core issues through preliminary engagements, surveys, and networking.

Stage 2 focuses on delivering a series of visioning and scenario building workshops, that include accessible expert presentations in the first part of the process to feed into the critical analysis sessions in which participants reflect on what climate change means to them and for their communities using several visual based techniques.

Stage 3 focuses on sharing the findings from the community workshops with the local community, policymakers, experts, and wider civil society.