Presentation on drama workshops and future of work. Held at the Futures Conference 2017: https://futuresconference2017.wordpress.com/

1. VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND LTD
Exploring the future of work
in drama workshops
Futures of a Complex World 12-13.6. 2017
Mikko Dufva, VTT oy
mikko.dufva@vtt.fi @mdufva

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Diversion from the
seemingly predetermined?

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Why work is changing?
Digitalization Globalization Aging

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What is the context for the change?
Economic
crisis
Crisis of
politics
Environmental
crisis

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What changes?
Work content and
practices
Employer-
employee relation
Earning a
livelihood
Learning and
competences
Societal meaning
of work

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Two discourses on the future of work in Finland
Increasing productivity Redefining work
Work as controlled,
linear production
Work as meaningful interaction
and problem solving
Focus on taxation, legislation,
welfare structures, export…
Focus on ways of working,
competences, organisations,
networks
Creativity and community as the bridge?

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Demystifying the future of work
through drama

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From vision walk to workshop exploration
Internal workshop for
producing a story frame
for the personas
Expert workshop
exploring work futures
and creating personas
Picture: Leo-Setä / Flickr

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Writing down the personas from the futures of
work
Platform
hustler
Official
Experi-
mentor
Actor Tycoon
Nurse
Down-
shifter
Searching for
new direction
Experiments
accelerate
Newlyfound
communality
Grand-
mother
Integrator
Dis-
placed

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Redramatization of the personas

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The oscillation between modes of knowledge
through which the future becomes demystified
Artefact
Explicit:
codified &
articulated
Experience
Implicit:
embodied &
out-of-radar

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Things to consider
Documenting,
dissemination and
transparency
Process as a whole
vs. drama as plugin
On-going debating
and shaping futures
Role and
responsibility of
foresight expert in
guiding the process

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