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Toolbox für Xtopien - Neue Werkzeuge für Zukunftsgestalter:innen
Jasmin Jossin et al.
Kassel University Press
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The brochure, Toolbox für Xtopien – Neue Werkzeuge für Zukunftsgestalter:innen, is a practical guide for designing and running “Xtopien”: participatory, playful interventions that help people imagine, discuss, feel into, and critically reflect on possible futures. It explains that Xtopien sit between utopia and dystopia, focusing on ambivalent futures rather than purely ideal or catastrophic ones, and it offers methods and tools for building such interventions through themes, methods, partners, contexts, audiences, and evaluation.
It is highly relevant for futures literacy because it is essentially a hands-on futures literacy toolkit. Xtopien aim to foster transformative learning and train future competencies so people can actively help shape sustainable development. Among the competencies named are imagination, appreciation of ambiguity, systems thinking, and social/emotional capacities for future dialogue.
It is highly relevant for futures literacy because it is essentially a hands-on futures literacy toolkit. Xtopien aim to foster transformative learning and train future competencies so people can actively help shape sustainable development. Among the competencies named are imagination, appreciation of ambiguity, systems thinking, and social/emotional capacities for future dialogue.