Combining analytic and experiential communication in participatory scenario development

Vervoort, Joost; Kok, Kasper; Beers, Pieter J.; Lammeren, R.J.A. van; Janssen, Ron

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.06.011

Cited by 26 publications

(17 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, the Oxfordshire (UK) workshops examined by Vervoort et al (2012) encouraged participants to consider . Scenario construction approach changes in energy use and food provision alongside transportation and land use changes.…”

Section: Scope: Single Issue Comprehensive or Problem-orientedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario Planning for Urban Planners: Toward a Practitioner's Guide

Chakraborty

McMillan

2015

Journal of the American Planning Association

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Scope: Single Issue Comprehensive or Problem-orientedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario Planning for Urban Planners: Toward a Practitioner's Guide

Chakraborty

McMillan

2015

Journal of the American Planning Association

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Furthermore, developing a shared understanding is not enough to create the impetus for change in the face of future challenges. Actors across the societal spectrum must be engaged with global environmental change and willing to take concerted action to effect structural change (Vervoort et al 2012a). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interactive media offer ways to overcome the limitations of societal communications on social-ecological change, showing potential for the facilitation of analytic understanding of complex systems (Andrienko andAndrienko 2007, Thomas andCook 2005) as well as for the generation of affective engagement (AlKodmany 2002, Sheppard 2005, Freeman 2010, Vervoort et al 2012a. These new media also offer ways to make communication about social-ecological complexity more accessible.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems

Vervoort¹,

Keuskamp²,

Kok³

et al. 2014

E&S

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. To take on the current and future challenges of global environmental change, fostering a widespread societal understanding of and engagement with the complex dynamics that characterize interacting human and natural systems is essential. Current science communication methods struggle with a number of specific challenges associated with communicating about complex systems. In this study we report on two collaborative processes, a short workshop and longer course, that aimed to harness the insights of interactive media designers and artists to overcome these challenges. The two processes resulted in 86 new interactive media concepts which were selected by the participants and organizers using set criteria and then evaluated using the same criteria by a panel of communication and media design experts and a panel of complex systems scientists using the same criteria. The top eight concepts are discussed in this paper. These concepts fell into the categories of serious games, group interaction concepts, and social media storytelling. The serious games focused directly on complex systems characteristics and were evaluated to be intuitive and engaging designs that combined transparency and complexity well. The group interaction concepts focused mostly on feedbacks and nonlinearity but were fully developed and tested in the workshops, and evaluated as engaging, accessible, and easy to implement in workshops and educational settings. The social media storytelling concepts involved less direct interactions with system dynamics but were seen as highly accessible to large scale audiences. The results of this study show the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration between complex systems scientists, designers, and artists. The results and process discussed in this paper show the value of more structural engagement of interactive media designers and artist communities in the development of communication tools about human and natural systems change.

show abstract

“…Scenario building applications typically involve the development of coherent, plausible, imagined sequences of events that express alternative futures. Although such event sequences could be represented in other media such as models, graphic images, and gaming (Vervoort et al 2012a), scenario development ultimately demands some degree of narration, if only that required to translate and summarize meanings created in other media. Not surprisingly, scenario methodology makes recurrent use of qualitative, ordinary language storylines, often in combination with quantitative models , Alcamo 2008.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Detailed Foresight Narratives: a Participatory Technique from the Mekong Region

Foran¹,

Ward²,

Kemp-Benedict³

et al. 2013

E&S

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. Narratives that explore uncertain events are central to a variety of future-oriented approaches ranging from planning to community visioning. Techniques to create interesting narratives, however, have been overlooked in the peer-reviewed environmental foresight literature. We describe a participatory, multidimensional, pragmatic technique to generate qualitative foresight ("scenario") narratives. We applied this technique in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia during 11 workshops conducted in 5 countries and 1 regional setting. To improve consideration of systemic connections, narratives were shared between the six settings, allowing participants to understanding cross-scale enablers and inhibitors of desired development outcomes. A second innovative feature is elaboration of character-oriented narratives. We discuss how the technique responds to ongoing methodological challenges of critical inquiry, policy salience, and agency.

show abstract

Combining analytic and experiential communication in participatory scenario development

Cited by 26 publications

References 40 publications

Scenario Planning for Urban Planners: Toward a Practitioner's Guide

Scenario Planning for Urban Planners: Toward a Practitioner's Guide

A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems

Developing Detailed Foresight Narratives: a Participatory Technique from the Mekong Region

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About