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Deliberative futures workshops for transformative sustainability
The deliberative futures workshop fosters transformative change and community participation in shaping the future. In the Imagining2050 project, we use this inclusive, co-creative approach to engage stakeholders in equitable and reasoned decision-making.
- Authors
Alexandra Revez, Clodagh Harris, Niall Dunphy, Brian Ó Gallachóir, Edmond Byrne, Evan Boyle, Connor McGookin, John Barry, Paul Bolger, Fionn Rogan, Geraint Ellis, Barry O’Dwyer, Stephen Flood, Elizabeth Creed, Gerard Mullally
- Year
- 2025
- Publication Name
- Imagining, designing and teaching regenerative futures: art-science approaches and inspirations from around the world, Springer Nature Singapore
- Category
- Book chapter
- Keywords
- Futures, methods, regenerative, climate action, methodology, art-science approaches
- Project
Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World
- Full Citation
Revez, A., Harris, C., Dunphy, N., Gallachóir, B.Ó., Byrne, E., Boyle, E., McGookin, C., Barry, J., Bolger, P., Rogan, F. and Ellis, G., 2025. Deliberative Futures Workshops for Transformative Sustainability. In Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World (pp. 15-22). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
- Link to Publication
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107673
Abstract
The deliberative futures workshop is both a method and a model of engagement that is designed to support transformative change, thinking ahead, and getting communities involved in shaping their future. It promotes collaboration with experts, stakeholders, and communities in a co-productive process that aligns with deliberative action research. The process seeks to be inclusive of everyone with a stake in the future by facilitating the development of multiple tools for their involvement in the planning and decision-making processes, following the deliberative principles of equality, inclusion, and reasoned argument. Within this chapter we outline our use of deliberative futures workshop within the Imagining2050 project.