Course curriculum

  • 1

    Instructions for this course

    • How the course is organized

  • 2

    Welcome and some background

    • A message from your instructor

    • Where did AEM come from?

    • Why we need to link futures thinking with action and experimentation

    • Problem # 1 - Perpetuating Used Futures

    • Two metaphors

    • The need for hope and power in our era
  • 3

    What is the Anticipatory Experimentation Method?

    • The Anticipatory Experimentation Method (AEM)

    • Video presentation overview of AEM

    • AEM Steps

    • Here is a personal story on how it works

  • 4

    The five steps

    • Let's do this!

    • Worksheet

    • Step 1: Challenging the used futures

    • Step 1 journal question - Challenging the used future

    • Step 2: Creating a new future (vision) or just new assumptions

    • Step 2 journal question - Vision or New Assumptions

    • Step 3: Ideation

    • Step 3 journal question - Ideation

    • Step 4: Running real world experiments

    • Step 4 journal question - Experimentation

    • Step 5: Evaluating, adapting and scaling for impact

    • Step 5 journal question - Evaluate, adapt, scale

  • 5

    Next Steps...

    • Anticipatory Design Cycle

    • AEM is a form of action research

    • This was an introductory course ...

    • More resources

    • Before you go...

    • Thank you and farewell!