Future workshop

The future workshop is a <a href="/facts/Futures_techniques/7rmGLdXJ">futures technique</a> developed by <a href="/facts/Robert_Jungk/ueV0mXpT">Robert Jungk</a>, Ruediger Lutz and Norbert R. Muellert in the 1970s. It enables a group of people to develop new ideas or solutions of social problems. A future workshop is particularly suitable for participants who have little experience with processes of creative decision making, for example <a href="/facts/Child/GGe19I8d">children</a> or <a href="/facts/Youth/3UX637aY">youth</a>. However it is a useful method for any kind of complex problem that requires many stakeholders' involvement. The future workshop method requires an intensive preparation and support by trained moderators. It is used in <a href="/facts/Spatial_planning/TFgmopPh">spatial planning</a> to involve citizens in the planning process, in software engineering to create a common vision of the future, and in health care to solve complex and multifaceted problems. 
The method is similar to <a href="/facts/Open_Space_Technology/wnFhbmjT">Open Space Technology</a>, Future Search, <a href="/facts/BarCamp/xSnANqe7">BarCamp</a> or <a href="/facts/Unconference/u6eVdzns">Unconferences</a>.
Future workshop may also be used as a kind of <a href="/facts/Action_research/MjoYmUEB">action research</a> method.

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Future workshop