Envisioning Tomorrow’s Science Centre: More challenge, more playBridget McKenzie, Flow UK19th March

Three ways to model futures

1. Normative: desired future built on common ideals 2. Extrapolating: probable future built on trends 3. Scenarios: possible futures built on ideals, trends & uncertainties

What you can’t predict is more powerful…

Gamechangers Trends

Black Swans Megatrends

Driving forces

Critical uncertainties

Scale, complexity and power

PlanetEconomy

Science

Education

All futures depend on the planet

Future of planet: Critical state shift

EnlightenmentNarrative of progress Technical solutions Science as knowable Ecology as non-human topicUnderstanding how things are

Celebrating universe & all its contents as a wonder beyond us

EngagementQuestioning narrativesSocial & creative solutions Science as paradoxical Ecology as key to thriving places & societyInfluencing how things are to arrest catastrophic disruptionSeeing ourselves as intimately connected to everything else

Future of science: More chaos + control?

Future of Learning: More rhizomatic?

Eco-sphere literacyas core skill?

Future of industry: More relational?

Future of attractions: Grand Projects?

…or, go with the digital flow?

Or, light on feet and coming to you?

Return to the first science centre?

…with its Board of Longitude

Challenge hubs?

Open IDEO

A shift outdoors?

Ethical sponsorship?

When things get serious, fun is more important