The politics of scenarios and experiments in counter-rehearsals

This practice-based PhD explores the increasing use of simulations to pre-enact the future, establishing a new community space to imagine and rehearse alternative visions. The space will act as a framework to develop methods for rehearsing future scenarios with various groups and communities. It will be constructed over three years through theatrical experiments in stage-building and

participatory workshops. This will result in a final experimental documentary, following a group of participants as they imagine and rehearse the lives of their community 30-years from now, based on where they would like it to be. The film will engage participants through Future-Imaging workshops of 'how things

could work' (Boulding) and the construction of architectural stage-sets to act out scenarios in. The space and film will offer an embodied knowledge of positive alternative futures we are yet to imagine (Boulding, Fisher), aiding real-world struggles to bring them into reality.