1. OPEN FUTURES
Joseph Monzel Zach Postone Melissanthi Saliba
Daniel Schwarz Nicolas Weidinger

2. Open Futures is a collaborative storytelling platform that
engages people in envisioning the future of California. The
platform prompts people to exchange, discuss, and develop
their ideas about the future. Participants can also build
upon the ideas of others by extending the narrative in new
directions.

3. news
personal accounts
stories : multimedia narrative
conversations
images

4. journalists
player roles designers
time travellers

5. LAUREN
Open Futures is
different, because it
Age 27 connects people who
haven’t met each
other before.
Points of entry Twitter
Education Bachelor’s Interests social
in social sciences networks, technology,
Trivial Pursuit
Job Communication Motto One Card at the
manager time

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15. DAVID
I spent an entire day
and night playing
Age 22 cards, and 24 hours
later I was among
Points of entry Article the top-rated players
on science and civic
participation
Interests science
Education Bachelor’s games, DIY chemical
in Neuroscience & reactions
Chemistry
Motto Knowledge is
Job Researcher the key to success

24. JACK
In my dream, I was
playing World of
Age 16 Warcraft while
walking to school,
one week later I
Points of entry tried geocaching for
the first time...
Class activity
Education Highschool Interests making,
student ecology, geocaching,
hiking
Motto It’s a mobile
world that we’re living
in

31. TIM
Just look around
you... the future is
Age 36 open on the streets,
all you need is
conviction and
imagination.
Points of entry Local
Activity on
environment and Interests activism,
sustainability street games, hiking,
urban planning
Motto Being Present Job Museum Guide

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38. LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3
LEARN INTERACT
CONTEXTUALIZE
Sample Tasks: Sample Task:
Read an article and write Sample Task: Raise an issue with your
a comment Draw a diagram relating local political
Watch a video ation. various topics. representation.
Organize an event around Graph a trend, projected Organize an event around
an issue. into the future. an issue.
PUT INTO CONTEXT
PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE IMAGINE CREATE
Sample Task: Sample Task: Sample Task:
Raise an issue with your Live in a scenario for a Design a solution to a
local political day. Write what you problem.
representation. learned. Build an artifact from the
Organize an event around Pretend you're in charge future.
an issue. of ____. Write what you'd
do.

39. CARD HIERARCHY

40. Open Ideo
MVIP
MOOD BOARD Space Collective
Foresight Engine
Akoha

44. Linked Activity Plays
External Site Integration
The future of open futures
Connecting Users With Orgs