Emily York and Shannon N. Conley, "Collaborative Scenario Analysis", contributed by Emily York and Shannon N. Conley, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 August 2019, accessed 21 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/collaborative-scenario-analysis
Critical Commentary
Undergraduate student members of the STS Futures Lab collaborate on scenario analysis related to implementation precision medicine as part of their participation in the Co-Imagining Future research project.
Working through various social, political, economic, technological, and environmental drivers, they iterate through a number of scenario crosses that force them to think through what conditions could lead to various scenarios in the next 20-30 years.
The critical thinking that this entails is particularly developed in a small group context where different participant's assumptions and values often surface through discussion of plausible socio-technical trajectories.