Vision exercises help teams create 'desirable and appealing pictures of a future state'. Lego Serious Play can be a useful tool to help teams think about and quickly envision future scenarios.
Sometimes in visioning teams find it hard to tune in to a time scale that is neither too futuristic or too current. With a blank canvas people may think about the future from many different starting points.
Taking a user centred approach can help teams people about the future from the perspective of different stakeholder groups. At a recent workshop for PCMA participants were asked to form five groups and each group was given a different persona to work with.
Each group was given a brief description of the characteristics of the person they were to create a future vision scenario with.
Below are a series of stills taken from one groups Lego Serious Movie, that in 4 minutes described the key experiences PhD Bill had in at a conference in a 2018 future.