Initiate an "Oral History to Sci-Fi" Project
Strategic Action Overview
To bridge memory and future-casting by transforming past struggles into hopeful future narratives.
Domain:
🪢 Culture
Subdomain:
👻 Memory and Projection
Dialectic:
✴️ Liberate
Implementation:
Medium
Timeline:
Short Term (3-12mo)
Resources:
Moderate
Strategic Pathway:
Record elders' stories of past challenges (e.g., organizing a union, fighting for civil rights), then have writers and artists re-imagine them as tales of triumph in a SolarPunk future.
Core Skills:
Facilitation,Community Organizing,Project Management
Success Indicators:
Stories recorded and transformed; community engagement; published future narratives.
Failure Signals:
Low participation; lack of creative output; disengagement from elders or artists.
Permissions:
Community Consent
Toolkit:
Meeting Spaces,Digital Platforms,Materials Budget
Adaptation Protocol:
Increase outreach; provide creative workshops; adapt project scope based on feedback.
