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+ | ===== Prehearsal ===== | ||
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+ | A prehearsal is an improvised situation of short duration, a try-out of a scenario focusing on the player’s behaviours and interactions, | ||
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+ | The difference between [[role playing]] and a prehearsal is that the participants do not assume the role of another character, but play themselves in different situations. Prehearsals are designed as short improvisation exercises that can be used as elements in longer participatory sessions. | ||
+ | ==== Process ==== | ||
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+ | * Step 1: Create a [[backstory]] for the prehearsal, based on images of the future developed through [[speculation_and_visioning]] and [[incasting]]. | ||
+ | * Step 2: Design the situation you want to prehearse. Choose a context that is relevant to the issue the group is exploring. It is helpful if the situation is familiar to the participants in the present (e.g. a party, a market, a seminar, workplace, family lunch...). If needed, include characters that would guide the prehearsal, which can be played by you or invited improvisers. Think about props, symbols, rituals that you might need to make the situation more believable. Keep it simple and use mock-ups, written or drawn suggestions of where ' | ||
+ | * Step 3: Demarcate a part of the space and have a clear physical threshold. Once they cross this threshold, the participants will be required to act "as if" they exist in the future they are prehearsing. | ||
+ | * Step 4: Describe the backstory and the situation to the participants and invite them to spend a few minutes thinking about what they would be doing in such situation in the future. You can ask them to write a page of their future [[diary]] in which they describe themselves in this situation. | ||
+ | * Step 5: Give clear instructions to the participants beforehand, with simple rules of engagement. Allow enough time for questions and clarifications, | ||
+ | * Step 6: Prehearse. Run the prehearsal from beginning to end without interruptions. Host the prehearsal 'in character' | ||
+ | * Step 7: Debrief. After the prehearsal is finished, there should be sufficient time for reflection on experiential insights. Integrate the findings with other knowledge gained through other inquiries (analysis, visioning, etc.) | ||
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+ | ==== References ==== | ||
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+ | * Enacting futures paper (forthcoming) | ||
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+ | Prehearsals are a short-form of the [[pre-enactment]] method. | ||
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