Posts filed under 'scenarios'
The future of civil society in Britain and Ireland
Andrew Curry writes:
I mentioned this large scale scenarios project in a post a few weeks ago - carried out for Carnegie UK’s Commission of Inquiry Into The Future of Civil Society.
The project reports are now on the Carnegie website: a drivers’ report, The Shape of Civil Society To Come; a scenarios report, Scenarios For Civil Society, a project summary, and finally a toolkit to help people use the material without needing professional support.
Running workshops across Britain and Ireland gave a broader cultural perspective than many of our projects and most of them were held either side of the May elections, with their nationalist tilt. My favourite workshop, I think, was exploring the implications of the scenarios high up in Croke Park in Dublin. It is the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association, one of the oldest of Irish civil society organisations, with its own history in the Irish struggle for independence from the UK - but also a civil association which has ridden cultural trends around national languages and culture to reinvigorate itself in the pst 20 years.
Picture of Croke Park from TouristR, Dublin.
Add comment 14 November 2007
The future of civil society
Andrew Curry writes:
We’ve just finished an extensive project with Carnegie UK’s Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in Britain and Ireland, looking out to 2025. We ran eleven workshops across the five jurisdictions, involving several hundred people, and we used the innovative causal layered analysis method to build the scenarios, to help us get to shifts in values. The reports are out soon, and we’ll blog more then.
For the moment the Commission’s chair Geoff Mulgan has written a piece on the findings in today’s Society Guardian. Too bad that our credit for running the process - and for the futures quotes - got lost on the sub-editors’ table.
Add comment 24 October 2007
