Future visions (developed through the Hub, Studio and PPW process) need to be meaningful and achievable. The VEIL project attempts to set those visions in the context of particular 'trajectories of development', plausible scenarios for the process of change that could have brought them into existence. VEIL projects place considerable emphasis on such trajectories and on the agents of change that support them.
A 'trajectory of development' is a way of 'backcasting' from the future vision to the present. This leads to two interrelated sets of investigations:
- "Revealing the Present": Are there emerging 'sites' of change in the present which could be considered as the precursors of the new trajectories?
- "Vision Driven Innovations": If the future 'looks' like that, then what new innovations today could help to bring that about?
For (1) the VEIL SustainableMelbourne.com web-site and various elements of research that are collectively referred to as observatory projects, contribute to revealing the present; the future visions provide a 'window' through which to observe and make sense of current social and technical innovations.
For (2) there are projects that can also be elaborated through a PPW process, that are referred to as 'VEIL - Seeding Ideas'.
Examples of both investigations can be found within this web site.