October 2022
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Thinking concretely about times to come is harder and rarer than it should be. This public imagination toolkit, published by Situation Lab and the British Broadcasting Corporation, was designed help make such thinking a bit easier and more common. The Futures Bazaar is a set of instructions and resources to help organisers stage a design jam where people transform everyday objects into unique “artifacts from the future” to provoke, amuse, and inspire one another. Every participant helps imagine and produce these future artifacts, and every artifact tells a story. The toolkit consists of three parts: Manual, Slides, and Printouts. The project page can be found at <bbc.co.uk/gel/features/futures-bazaar-toolkit>. An open access, print-and-play edition of The Thing From The Future card game, the ideation engine on which the Bazaar was built, is available to download at <researchgate.net/publication/364677670>.