Deliberative Futures Workshops for Transformative Sustainability
摘要
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. The deliberative futures workshop embraces a diversity of communication and practices that recognize the systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory. The various techniques proposed draw upon multiple experiences, voices, and perspectives with a view to increasing and enhancing the number of “deliberative” moments within the process.