Scenario Building as a Dialogue Tool

By spring 2022, the Beyond e-Textiles project had been running for a year, and the deeply interdisciplinary composition of professions together with the exploratory open approach meant that it was difficult to reach mutual understanding and establish a sense of community between the participants. The project partners therefore agreed that there was a need to define some interim goals and decide on the path to reach them. Thus, the Scenario Building as Dialogue Tool project would explore how each partner institution could navigate in a way that was relevant to the involved researchers, and with the intention of uniting across partners at identified common places. For this purpose, the third biannual workshop of the Beyond e-Textile research group included a brainstorming session aimed at creating spaces for informal yet project relevant and constructive dialogues, a hands-on dialogue tool that could foster a sense of community, create a map of goals to pursue and identify paths to follow.