Next Year's Headlines

Purpose

• To help us turn from problem inquiry to problem solving.
• Break individual patterns of thinking by creating a story together and making new associations

Facilitation Instructions

• Find a partner
• Keeping in mind the insights or themes this group explored together, imagine into the future, to a time when your experience using the UW Libraries as a first generation student is even better or stronger than it is now. If the UW Daily were to report on this, what would the headline say? Think big and also think specifically!
• Within your pair, you will create the headline by going back and forth in providing one word each towards the headline. Record your headline on a piece of paper. Words like “and, an, a, by, the” etc. do not count as your turn.
• Repeat this process until you have 2 or 3 headlines. Then choose 1 headline that most fully represents your future hopes.
• We will share our headlines with the full group.

Products Generated

• A list of co-authored, future-oriented statements that help define our creative direction .

Reference

Scott Young & Hailey Fargo

Additional Information

• The facilitation guide above combines two activities: “Next Year’s Headlines” and “Two Author Story.”
• For a more physical activity, consider cutting out headlines from newspapers or magazines – or use a template to envision the entire newspaper front page.
• If a smaller set of headlines is desired, invite participants to mark the most representative headlines with star.