Are you interested in exploring potential future scenarios? Or perhaps you want to have constructive conversations about the future with your team or group of participants? Maybe you simply want to develop future-thinking competencies? Then get to know our game Window to the Future!
Window to the Future is an educational tool that invites you to look into the future. It serves as a reflection tool to kick off interesting and balanced conversations about what the future might hold for our communities and how we can act now to co-create a better future. The game aims to promote constructive conversations about the future and develop future-thinking competencies. Additionally, it encourages you to consider possible future scenarios, imagine desirable changes, and identify potential actions.
Window to the Future was created for and played by the participants during the Third European Academy Event in May 2024.
The game includes an instruction booklet, a game board, and four different kinds of playing cards, which you can easily print out and use right away. It comes with easy-to-understand instructions, interesting questions, and prompts for actions in the present and near future. The game also provides you with micro-inputs about future thinking.
When can you use it?
You can use it in various environments: at your workplace with your team to spark debates about the future; in training courses to engage participants in future-thinking; at community centers or innovation labs to stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving. The Window to the Future game can be used in any setting where you want to practice future-thinking skills such as imagination, empathy, critical thinking, and strategic thinking.
Did we spark your interest?
Find the game and all necessary materials HERE.
If you play the game in your environment, we invite you to share your feedback with us on our Facebook and Instagram pages or via email. We will be thrilled to hear about your experience. Enjoy the game!