The document discusses a research project called Liveable Cities that aims to make cities low carbon and enhance quality of life over 5 years between 4 universities. It also describes a series of breakfast meetings to get input from experts in different fields like healthcare, arts, law on their visions for future cities. Experts from the retail sector will provide future city scenarios on November 7th. The expected outcome is future city visions for different sectors like retail, healthcare, arts. Radical envisioning methods will be used to help participants think beyond what is currently possible.

1. Future
envisioning
breakfasts
Brainstorming Session

2. what is liveable cities
City Analysis
Methodology
Policy and
Governance
Resources
Wellbeing
Future
Visions
Ecosystem
Services
Economic
Viability
Energy
Liveable Cities is a 5-year research project about
making cities low carbon and enhancing quality of
life and wellbeing.
The project is run jointly between the Universities
of Birmingham, Lancaster, Southampton and
University College London.
research topics

3. what are the breakfasts?
Future
Visions
the aim of the breakfast
is to provide design
briefing to the radical
engineering group.
On November 7th,
experts from the
retail sector will draft
scenarios of their future
city.

4. what are the breakfasts?
Future
Visions
the aim of the breakfast
is to provide design
briefing to the radical
engineering group.
On November 7th,
experts from the
retail sector will draft
scenarios of their future
city.
We are organising a
series of breakfasts.
We will invite experts
from health care, poets,
artists, lawyers etc.

5. the future city of retail
the future city of healthcare
the future city of art
the future city of ...
a common vision?
similarities&contrasts?
what IS THE EXPECTED OUTCOME?

6. time
Voros (2003)
possible
now
plausible
probable
the futures cone

7. time
Voros (2003)
preferable
possible
now
plausible
probable
the futures cone

8. preferable
possible
now
plausible
probable
the futures cone
time
Voros (2003)
this is what we are
interested in!

9. three Steps
Objectives
questions
1. Understanding the structure of the
sector today
1.
What does the sector do?
Who is involved?
Where does it do it?
How does it do it?
1.2. How has the sector evolved?
Interacting with what elements (eg. Political choices
influence the sector etc.)
2. Imagining
2.
Imagine “preferable” futures for the sector.
What will be the major changes?
How will it be structured?
3. Radical envisioning
3.
Participants’ minds must be challenged to think outside
the boundaries of their imagination to conceive ideas
beyond what is considered possible or acceptable.
1
2
3
2h

10. why do we need a hand :)
we need to
get out of
here!
now
and help
participants
to think more
radically
time
Voros (2003)

11. why do we need a hand :)
we need to
get out of
here!
now
we need learn tools
and methods to go
from here to there
and help
participants
to think more
radically
time
Voros (2003)

12. thank you for
the help!
Serena Pollastri
s.pollastri@lancaster.ac.uk