Future ViewsWorkshop

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The Challenge!

Education and arts organisations are:

that in the far future all young people can be creative wherever they live for years to come…

to ensure…Working now in the present day…

and they need to know what you think

Game Design and leisure

Visual Arts

…that the UK is a creative powerhouse, and has been for a

long time.

Did you know …

TourismMuseums and

Heritage

Theatre and Drama

Music

Film and TV

Digital Industry

BUT THAT IS AT RISK!

Artists don't earn enough with rising

costs of living

Bigger tuition fees and debt at University

97% digital businesses

small and vulnerable

Arts and technical subjects squeezed out of schools

Uncertainty in UK economy

Local places losing

theatres and

museums

To view the future takes imagination

Now Near FutureFar FutureIdentify

the current drivers for change.

Now Near FutureFar FutureIdentify

the current drivers for change.

Focus on the impact. What will this

mean?

Now Near FutureFar FutureIdentify

the current drivers for change.

Focus on the impact. What will this

mean?

Develop ideas. What

new things will exist?

Now Near FutureFar FutureIdentify

the current drivers for change.

Focus on the impact. What will this

mean?

Develop ideas. What

new things will exist?

ImagineWhat will our future world

be like?

Let’s get started!

Level 1 - NowZOOM ZOOM

ZOOM

Identify your top Gamechangers

Zoom out…What are some big things happening in the world that might affect your access to culture and creativity?

Zoom in… What barriers are there locally for young people’s cultural and creative lives?

Identify as many barriers as you can

Zoom in again…What stops you personally from engaging more in culture and creativity?

Identify your own barriers

Level 2 – Near FutureImpact!

Focus on the impact. What will this mean?

In the near future What impacts will your barriers and gamechangers have caused?

Tag your ideas as positive, negative, or both.

In the near future What impacts will your barriers and gamechangers have caused?

It’s hard to know … which way things will go

Flip it! How will people use creativity to solve problems?

Develop ideas. What new things will exist?

Why does it matter?

Arts help you be

creative, which is

GOOD FOR YOUR

LIFE and work

CULTURE is all the ways art and creativity are

saved, shared and interpreted

Whatever changes we will always NEED ART: to sing, dance,

make images, tell stories

TECHNOLOGY

and other big shifts

could change art

and creativity so

much we can

hardly recognise it

Creativity can help us solve problems

Welcome to the Future!

We have arrived!

Level 3 – Far FutureThe neXt factor

In the far future what will make your place creative and fun to live in? New technologies? Things we would recognise from today?

Write each idea on a separate

post-it note

Imagine: What creative activities will people enjoy?

In the far future what kinds of people will we need in a thriving creative place?

Write each idea on a separate

post-it note

Imagine: What skills and attitudes would people need?

Draw a triangle with the words work, learning and play in the corners.

Arrange your post-it notes where they work best. Where are the gaps?

Work

PlayLearning

People will enjoy crative activities like ____________ __________________________________________________________________________

People will use creativity to____ ___________________________________________________________________________

People will enjoy crative activities like ____________ __________________________________________________________________________

People will enjoy crative activities like ____________ __________________________________________________________________________

People will enjoy crative activities like ____________ __________________________________________________________________________

People will use creativity to____ ___________________________________________________________________________

People will use creativity to____ ___________________________________________________________________________

People will use creativity to____ ___________________________________________________________________________

People will use creativity to____ ___________________________________________________________________________

You have successfully imagined what the future needs!

Let’s tell the people in the present day

For young people in the far future to have a thriving creative life

To someone back in the present day

What your local area needs now

To______________________

We would like you to ________

_________________________

_________________________

_________________________

_________________________

____By (insert date)

___________

Send a message

Who can you ask?Government

PM and Ministers

MPs represent your area. Debate and

vote in Parliament to make laws & spend

tax £.

Local authority: Your councillors, and Officers of

Children’s Services & Arts/Culture

Services

Minister for Culture, Department for Culture, Sport &

Leisure

ACE Officers Arts Council of England. £ & policy.

Bridge organisations support arts and

education links in your region

Local Cultural Education Partnerships:

School heads, Theatre directors, Museum managers, Music

services, Employers, etc.

To:

We would like you to: ____________________ _______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

So that we can have a thriving creative future.

What about you?What message would you send yourself?

Thank youHave a wonderful future!