Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Manoa Alternative Futures Method	Three Horizons Framework
Πεδίο	Futures Foresight Studies	Futures Foresight Studies
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2009	2016
Δημιουργός	Jim Dator (Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)	Bill Sharpe, Anthony Hodgson, Graham Leicester (International Futures Forum)
Τύπος	Generative pipeline for producing alternative images of the future	Pattern-mapping pipeline for transformative change over time
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Dator, J. (2009). Alternative futures at the Manoa School. Journal of Futures Studies, 14(2), 1-18.	Sharpe, B., Hodgson, A., Leicester, G., Lyon, A., & Fazey, I. (2016). Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation. Ecology and Society, 21(2), 47.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Manoa School Method, Four Generic Futures, Dator Alternative Futures, Hawai'i Alternative Futures	Three Horizons Model, 3H Framework, Three Horizons Mapping, H1-H2-H3 Pathways
Συναφείς	4	3
Σύνοψη	The Manoa Alternative Futures Method is the signature technique of the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies, developed by Jim Dator at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Its founding axiom is that 'the future' cannot be predicted, only alternative futures can be imagined, so the purpose of foresight is not a single forecast but a set of qualitatively different images broad enough to bound the space of what might plausibly happen. Dator's central empirical claim, distilled from decades of futures work, is that the enormous variety of credible long-range scenarios collapses into four generic images: continued growth, collapse, discipline, and transformation. The method seeds these four archetypes with emerging issues — weak signals not yet visible as trends — to stretch participants' images of the future and produce a usable, divergent scenario set.	The Three Horizons framework is a structured way of thinking about transformative change by mapping three overlapping curves of activity across time. Developed within the International Futures Forum and given its definitive articulation by Bill Sharpe, Anthony Hodgson, Graham Leicester and colleagues in their 2016 Ecology and Society paper, it distinguishes the first horizon (H1), the dominant present system that is declining in its fit with a changing world; the third horizon (H3), an emerging and viable future pattern that is currently marginal but growing; and the second horizon (H2), the turbulent zone of transition in which entrepreneurial innovations and experiments compete, some carrying the system toward H3 and others merely propping up H1. Rather than predicting a single future, the framework is a pathways practice that helps groups see the present as a contested landscape of patterns and locate their own intentions and actions within it.