Future workshop

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Future workshop
Goal / function Influencing the public and society, advising decision-makers
typical topics Anticipating future developments, deriving recommendations on various topics
context organizational or company-internal questions, including questions at the local level
typical clients Authorities, municipalities, associations, companies, etc.
Duration 2-3 days
Participants (number and selection) 5–200 people; Self-selection (within a natural group)
important actors, developers, rights holders Robert Jungk , Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues
geographical distribution German-speaking area (= A, D), especially Austria

Source: Nanz / Fritsche, 2012, pp. 86–87

The future workshop is one of the futurologists Robert Jungk , Rüdiger Lutz and Norbert R. Müllert established method that imagination to stimulate, to develop new ideas solutions to social problems.

Future workshops are intended as a counter-program to state planning and as a project to empower those who are affected by planning. In this way, people should change from being the object of future planning to being the subject of this planning and, based on the local context of action, open up greater scope for action.

A future workshop can be used wherever “groups of people have problems that they cannot get ahead with with conventional means”. Experience shows that it is suitable for participants of all ages (from kindergarten children to senior citizens) and every level of education (from unemployed people without training to business managers ). It is particularly valued by participants who have little experience with processes of creative decision-making, such as children or young people . The target group-specific application requires intensive preparation and support from trained moderators .

application areas

The spectrum of the future workshop extends, among other things, from learning workshops, problem-solving and brainstorming workshops, strategy workshops to communication workshops. It is a method that tries to collect ideas and solve problems in the context of a specific question. Future designs, goals and measures for organizations are developed together. The application is mostly limited to regional processes and is used by municipalities, local administrations, etc. a. used. The future workshop is therefore also a public participation process.

She is z. It is used, for example, in urban planning to involve citizens in specific planning, or in organizational development to unite employees towards common goals and values.

The main goals of the future workshop are to find approaches to solutions that the participants were previously looking for in vain. The topic must be penetrated clearly and perspectively (gain new perspectives), develop a feeling for the future (personality comes to the fore) and make self-awareness (reduction of fears about the future, gain personal confidence, trust in your own Force).

procedure

The method comprises three main phases as well as a preliminary phase and a follow-up.

After the realization, a future workshop on this topic should take place after a predetermined period of time, in which the previous future workshop is dealt with according to the three phases. A control loop is created in which it is repeatedly checked whether the setpoint corresponds to the actual value. This is referred to as a permanent workshop in the basic literature.

Preliminary phase: start / find your way

This is where the group is "founded" and a good atmosphere of mutual trust is created. This includes promoting an informal group atmosphere, sounding out the thematic interests and disclosing the methodical and timing of the future workshop.

Phase 1: Complaint / Criticism

Here, the participants express displeasure, criticism and negative experiences on the chosen topic. This should be as free from constraints as possible. It is less about analyzing the problems than about taking stock for further work. It is advisable to brainstorm on cards, which, as with the moderation method , are then sorted by topic. The aim of this phase is to get rid of anger, anger and disappointment and thus free up for creative, imaginative and constructive work in phases 2 and 3.

Phase 2: fantasy / utopia

The creativity of each individual is required here. One should think the utopian. An initial sentence would be e.g. B .: "It would be nice if ...". Sentences like “That's impossible!” Must be avoided at all costs. Here you can and should fantasize. Brainstorming on moderation cards is again an option, which, as with the moderation method, are then sorted by topic.

Phase 3: Realization / Practice

The first two phases are linked here. It must be estimated what can be achieved. Group work and the involvement of qualified specialists are recommended. Other moderation teams deliberately do without external experts, but see the participants themselves as experts in the matter. Various procedures for project planning, for the implementation of (social) change and for qualification in the application of cyclical group processes can be practiced here.

Follow-up work

The moderator will design the (preliminary) conclusion. The goals, procedures and results are briefly summarized and classified again. Under the heading: What's next? the possible progress of the workshop work is considered. If necessary, new meetings will be arranged. At the end, the participants give feedback on how they experienced the time together.

Networking of the future workshop moderators

Since 1987, an annual meeting of moderators of the future workshops has been held in self-organization at changing locations. The results of the content were published regularly from 2003 to 2012 on a website for networking future workshops, and from 2013 to 2018 on a social network. In 2013, the results appeared for the first time in a book in the JBZ working papers series at the Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues ; this is also planned for 2017. In 2016 the association Zukunftswerkstätten e. V. together with four other institutions the results as a brochure.

Moderation training

Moderation training for the future workshop with several modules has been offered in German-speaking countries for years by an educational institution in Hamburg (since 2006) and in Cologne (since 2008). Both courses are recognized as educational leave.

The future workshop online

The IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie - Education Department - with the Verein Arbeit, Bildung und Forschung e. V. 1997 through. This future workshop had the question "How can works council work be supported by using the Internet?" Their aim was to examine the following two points:

  • “On the one hand, it was about using new media / the Internet as a common place of work in which creative processes can be run through with small groups. Suitable methods should be developed and tested for this. "
  • "On the other hand, as part of the future workshop method, content-related discussions about potential uses of new media should be conducted by works councils."

"Both succeeded in the future workshop (... better than expected)."

In 1997, under Olaf-Axel Burow, a working group was formed at the Department of Education / Human Sciences at the University of Kassel , which wanted to investigate the feasibility of a future workshop completed via the Internet in an exploratory research project. The 2004 dissertation by Heiko Rüppel Zukunftswerkstatt-online - Ways to a tele-cooperative learning culture? Exploratory exploration of the theory and practice of a tele-cooperative learning environment deals in detail with the knowledge gained from research over the seven years. The following problems were examined in this work:

  • the design and improvement of software that manages the future workshop on the server and the presentation of the portal to the workshop participant on the PC;
  • testing the online workshop and examining its effectiveness;
  • the determination of the necessary technology and knowledge requirements of the moderation and the workshop participants.

literature

  • Robert Jungk, Norbert R. Mullert: Future workshops . With imagination against routine and resignation. Munich 1989 (first published in 1981) ISBN 3-453-03743-X
  • Beate Kuhnt, Norbert R. Müllert: Moderation Primer - Understanding, guiding and using future workshops. Neu-Ulm: AG SPAK Books 2004 (first published in 1996) ISBN 3-930830-45-0
  • Olaf-Axel Burow & Marina Neumann-Schönwetter (Hrsg.): Future workshop in school and teaching. Hamburg: Bergmann & Helbig 1997 (2nd edition) ISBN 3-925836-40-3
  • Wiebke Claussen, Stephan G. Geffers, Lars Meyer, Walter Spielmann: The Art of Participation. Turn those affected into participants. What moved the future workshop annual meeting in Salzburg. JBZ working paper no.28. Salzburg: JBZ publishing house 2013 ISBN 978-3-902876-21-8
  • Claudia Stracke-Baumann, Norbert R. Mullert: Social inventions - social work. Theoretical - inventive - practical. Neu-Ulm: AG SPAK Books 2014 ISBN 978-3-940865-87-8
  • Claudia Stracke-Baumann: Future workshop GWA 2025 or how community workers plan the future. In: Riede, Milena / Noack, Michael. Community work and migration. Current challenges in the neighborhood and district. mitarbeit.skript 11. Bonn: Stiftung Zusammenarbeit (pp. 54–61) 2017
  • Claudia Stracke-Baumann: Sustainability of future workshops. Bonn: Foundation Participation 2012 (2nd edition)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrizia Nanz , Miriam Fritsche: Handbook Citizen Participation: Procedures and Actors, Opportunities and Limits , bpb (vol. 1200), 2012 (PDF 1.37 MB) →  to order the printed edition at bpb.de.
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Beate Kuhnt, Norbert R. Müllert: Guide to the moderation primer Understanding future workshops - the practical book on social problem-solving methods in the future workshop. AG SPAK books, 3rd revised edition, ISBN 3-930830-45-0 , Neu-Ulm: 2006, p. 17
  3. ^ Children's future workshop on urban planning in Aachen 2006
  4. ↑ Federal project Active in old age : Future ideas for the Daadener Land (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  5. ^ Perspective workshops for the unemployed, Kick off e. V. Krefeld (PDF; 73 kB)
  6. ↑ Mental Management of the Crisis. In: experto.de. VNR Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG, Bonn
  7. ↑ On organizational development cf. Developing schools as an organization - future workshop as a method in school development processes
  8. ↑ Cf. Beate Kuhnt, Norbert R. Mullert: Guide to moderation primer Understanding future workshops - the practical book on social problem-solving methods, future workshop. AG SPAK books, 3rd revised edition. Neu-Ulm 2006, ISBN 3-930830-45-0 , p. 62 f.
  9. ↑ Cf. Robert Jungk, Norbert R. Mullert: Future workshops - With imagination against routine and resignation. 3. Edition. Wilhelm Heine Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-03743-X , p. 199 f.
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Peter Legner u. a .: Hans Böckler Foundation - Codetermination Department (ed.). Future workshop on the Internet: "How can works council work be supported by using the Internet?" - Evaluation and conclusions. Berlin: Work, Education and Research e. V. 1998, p. 5 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / abfev.de
  11. ↑ See Heiko Rüppel: Zukunftswerkstatt-online - Ways to a tele-cooperative learning culture. Online publication, dissertation. urn: nbn: de: hebis: 34-1507 . Kassel 2004, p. 17 f.