This is the long term vision for the steps of a collaborative reverse archaeology project in Toronto focusing on the future of mental health.

1. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IMAGINARIUM
A REVERSE ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT
This project is for the visionaries and game changers interested in influencing the future of mental health. Through a participatory foresight and
design process, it aims to inject imagination into the health care industry and paint a hopeful picture of mental health services in 2040. The Mental
Health Services Imaginarium offers thinkers and makers a playful opportunity to get outside of current system constraints and create powerful
tangible, solutions for the future. This provocative process will demonstrate the value of these innovative methods to health care stakeholders and
spark a larger dialogue about possibilities for the future.
PROCESS
CROWDSOURCE
TREND ANALYSIS
COLLABORATE ON
FUTURE WORLDS
SHARE THE
SCENARIOS
DESIGN SERVICES
FOR 2040
EXHIBIT
ARTIFACTS
Thinkers from inside
and outside the health
care space are invited
to identify trends
influencing mental
health services. Each
participant is provided
with a trend card
template to complete
along with simple
instructions.
Using the trends
identified, the collective
will work together
through a series of
foresight and strategy
methods to develop
scenarios for 2040. The
result will be engaging
future scenarios that
appear ridiculous on
the surface, yet entirely
plausible.
The future scenarios
will be polished by
the core team and
brought to life through
thoughtful and creative
illustrations and
animations. They will
then be distributed
to interested thinkers
and makers to provide
context and inspiration
for their service
innovations.
Creators will
collaborate to
‘rigorously imagine’
mental health services
relevant to one of the
2040 scenarios. Each
participating team will
build a remarkable
object from 2040 that
will allow others to
discover the essence of
their imagined future
service.
These artifacts will be
curated into a rousing
exhibit in a setting that
mimics a museum
from the future. Health
care stakeholders and
the general public will
discover fragments
of mental health
services in 2040 and
be inspired to rethink
the trajectory of the
mental health system.