Building an otherself for yourself is a crucial tool for accessing speculative narrative and design from an embodied and personal viewpoint that nevertheless allows you a radical shift in perspective. How far away you want to move away from your own experiential horizon is up to you. You can play ‘close to home’ and simply project yourself into the future but you might also want to try out a different side of yourself or assume a temporary position that feels currently far away from your own. In any case take a moment for yourself to consider what themes and positions interest you when you think of the future of arts education? What are questions you feel curious or passionate about? This is the moment to assure that concerns that are important for you to figure out during the Footnotes Workshop will be included in the game play. Do not overthink it. Be intuitive.
For existing organizations or collectives it might be interesting to consider how they can imagine its transformation or development in the future.