Peer2Politics

Vision Mapping is the first of two workshops that combine digital mapping, strategic foresight and prototyping within an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) framework.
The Vision Mapping process begins with a “discovery” phase were participants will uncover the resources, strengths and assets we have as a community. Once participants get clarity on their assets, they move on to the “dream” phase where they can envision the best of what can be and begin to “map the future”.
Digital maps provide an editable sandbox to conduct the discovery phase of community asset mapping and provide a canvas from which to dream in a geo-spatially rich way. Participants can use the digital map to project their visions in ways which are spatially specific to feed social conversations about the future.

For more than two hundred years, mainstream thinking has regarded the market as the primary source of material “progress.” And indeed, to a large extent that’s been true. But yesterday is not forever. Today the market is approaching a point of diminishing returns – systemic diminishing returns. It is yielding less well-being per unit of output by practically any measure, and more problems instead: obesity instead of good health, congestion instead of mobility , time deficits instead of leisure, depression and stress instead of a sense of well-being, social fracture rather than cohesion, environmental degradation rather than improvement.