“The future will always be more messy than we imagine.” –Jamais Cascio

This Future Preparedness case study researches how to increase individual, group and community resilience by cultivating behaviours that allow us to be prepared for any possible future. It combines collecting of historical examples of resilient social and cultural structures with age-old sideshows, anachronistic reenactments and futurist scenarios. The public aspect of the case study includes prehearsals or future reenactments, drawing on improvisation, scenario planning, and military drills for disaster relief such as the Nothing Can Surprise Us (NNNI) exercises in ex-Yugoslavia, where young and old played a role in a staged emergency. Similarly, RT's future prehearsals model life in unpredictable yet possible scenarios in Europe's near future as an improvised, participatory performance. FP hypothesises that through such prehearsals, communities can begin establishing valuable contacts and skills to face uncertainty. A long-term objective is to envisage a Europe-wide resilience training, encouraging the public to imagine possible futures and acquire the skills, resources and knowledge needed to survive and thrive.

The Resilients activities that are thematically related to the Future Preparedness:

• Family In Residence
• Naikan
• Mathematickal Arts Workshop
• Resilients Apprentices
• Resilients Journeyers
  • Coralie Stalberg's “debrouillardise et coquetterie”
  • Dougald Hine's travellogue & rhapsodies → http://rhapsodi.se/resilients/
• Resilients Salons

• future preparedness notes
• scenario planning
• Foreground Research
• Background Research

• FoAM scenario planning exercise 201204
  • Weekend Superheroes
  • The Flotilla
  • Incubator for Successful Artists
  • A Bohemian Salon
• scenario workshop 201205