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Making Sense with Backcasting: the Future Perfect: A creative method and its backgrounds illustrated through a practical case
Author(s) -
Tassoul Marc
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8691.00083
Subject(s) - facilitator , creativity , backcasting , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , hero , computer science , everyday life , sociology , management science , knowledge management , psychology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , sustainability , social psychology , engineering , history , ecology , philosophy , biology , operating system , archaeology
During his work as a creativity practitioner and researcher, the author has developed a Future Perfect approach to achieve a collaborative sense and vision about issues of change. This article reports the experience of both participants and facilitator in using this process, in a project undertaken to develop new approaches to clean textiles in the context of sustainable development. The process is described in part on the basis of McWhinney’s ‘Six Systems Model’ and Catford and Ray’s ‘Path of the Everyday Hero’. The experience is then developed into helpful hints for creativity practitioners.