The Process in Brief
The Future Views project was an ambitious process, with a fairly open brief. We did not stick rigidly to our initial plan, but adapted it in response to needs and feedback, and changed the pilot workshop after reviewing each trial.
We worked with design students from Central St Martins and Ravensbourne colleges for our early stage pilot workshops, then tried them out with groups from a secondary school in March, the Colchester Academy in Colchester, and the Gulbenkian Art31 group with Cultural Education Partnership members in Canterbury.
We held a number of interviews with partners at each of these Cultural Education Partnerships, asking them about their challenges and visions for the future, and then opened up the questioning process to a wide community of researchers, educators and cultural practitioners using blogs, social media and a rolling online questionnaire.
Throughout the project we were challenged by a number of complex questions about the future and the process, and we wanted to ensure we had accounted for a wide range of views. Some of these questions were explored in the wider online enquiry, shared on the Future Views Facebook group, the Future Views blog and summarised on this page.