Horizon Scanning for Local Government Placemaking

The Horizon Scanning component of Explore is a research-backed card-deck which looks ahead at the long-term key emerging trends that are shaping the future operating environment in local places. The card-deck provides a high-level, scene-setting context that will help frame place-based strategic conversations and decision-making. These trends can be global, national, or local in scale. It was co-developed with Natural England’s Futures team. 

The Horizon Scanning card deck contains three types of conversation prompts, trends affecting places (in green), conceptual drivers and pressures for local government (in red) and influences on the way local government operates (in blue).

To be most effective the Horizon Scanning card-deck should be used with the Futures Wheel tool as part of a facilitated workshop conversation based around the wider Explore components (see facilitation package)