The Tomorrow Deck

The Tomorrow Deck is an ideation card deck used to help people think creatively about the future and settle into workshop sessions. It can be played by groups of any size.

To play, deal every group a value, object, and mood card. Each group should talk about how their cards can come together: ‘How can you combine your value and object to create your mood?’ 

After giving people time to come up with as many ideas as they want, we hit them with a disruption card and a prompt: ‘How will you have to alter or change your ideas as a result of the disruption?' 

For example, how can you combine fairness with bread to create hope? Maybe you imagine a fair distribution of bread programme that gives people hope because everyone has regular access to nutrition. There are beautiful bread commons set up in communities where people gather and share food. With full bellies and convivial spaces, hope springs. Then, with the disruption that ‘The most connected people take the largest share of resources’, the question becomes how to design our bread programme to mitigate, prevent or leverage the most connected people taking the largest shares.

It's great to use at the beginning of a creative workshop to get people's minds going.

Play online or print at home

The pdfs are print at home versions of the game. 

The cards are suitable for printing on standard playing size cards, so would need rearranging for printing on A4/letter.

Credit

The Tomorrow Deck was developed by Leah Lockhart and Kieran Cutting.

License

CC-BY-SA