Extrapolation Worksheets, 2013-2019

Every Extrapolation Factory workshop runs on worksheets. Printed on colored paper and redesigned for each context, they walk participants through the method step by step: collecting signals of change, extrapolating them into possible futures, and describing the products, services and stories those futures might hold. This page collects the blank worksheets from 19 workshops between 2013 and 2019, followed by worksheets filled in at workshops between 2013 and 2015, including Junk Mail Machine, Pawn Tomorrow, Telstar Shopping Network, Biotechnominimarket, SYM(MICRO)BIOTICS, Wild Posting Futures BBQ, Mobile Service Stations, Phantom Residents, Action/Reaction and the Dept. for Communicative Things.

See all worksheets on Flickr.

Research interests
Pedagogical tools · Participatory futures

Project credits

A project by: Chris Woebken and Elliott P. Montgomery

Worksheets filled in by: Workshop participants

Blank worksheets
The worksheets as they were printed for each workshop, in order. Each links to its project.

Futuring Flatbread placemat, New Future Picnic, 2013

H+munculus, Cyborg, 2015

Data Collector Invention Unit, Hybrid Urbanism: Kiosk, 2015

Filled in
Worksheets completed by participants, 2013 to 2015.

Exhibitions & related material

2018 · Academic discussionPedagogical Possibilities: Arts-Based Practices of Collaborative Time for Teaching the FutureSarah Gerth V. D. Berg, “Pedagogical Possibilities: Arts-Based Practices of Collaborative Time for Teaching the Future.” Transformations 28(1), 2018, pp. 6–18. Discusses the worksheets and Operator’s Manual.