NARRATIVE FUTURING

Fiji futuring: connectivity and development

Robbie Robertson is a development historian, currently Professor and Director of Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific. Sustainable economic growth requires both vertical and horizontal linkages. In Fiji these linkages have often been missing, with the result that the impact of even significant economic sectors has been more palliative than energising. Combined with politic...

Decision Corridors as a Futuring Technique

This paper describes using a decision corridor approach to improve the exercise of strategic judgment under conditions of uncertainty. The method is a composite of concepts and tools principally borrowed from three analytical families futures, transition management and strategic management While the approach as used does not challenge current business concepts or radically contribute to their r...

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

Narrative based medicine: why study narrative?

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Narrative Theory and Emergent Interactive Narrative

This paper considers narrative theory in the light of the requirements of a project just started to use stories around the theme of bullying to build empathy in child users and achieve pedagogical objectives. It describes and discusses the theories of Aristotle, Propp and Barthes, and concludes that the approach taken in improvisational drama and human Role playing Games is more appropriate for...