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	Three Horizons Framework	Manoa Alternative Futures Method
Campo	Futures Foresight Studies	Futures Foresight Studies
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2016	2009
Ideatore	Bill Sharpe, Anthony Hodgson, Graham Leicester (International Futures Forum)	Jim Dator (Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Tipo	Pattern-mapping pipeline for transformative change over time	Generative pipeline for producing alternative images of the future
Fonte seminale	Sharpe, B., Hodgson, A., Leicester, G., Lyon, A., & Fazey, I. (2016). Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation. Ecology and Society, 21(2), 47.	Dator, J. (2009). Alternative futures at the Manoa School. Journal of Futures Studies, 14(2), 1-18.
Alias	Three Horizons Model, 3H Framework, Three Horizons Mapping, H1-H2-H3 Pathways	Manoa School Method, Four Generic Futures, Dator Alternative Futures, Hawai'i Alternative Futures
Correlati	3	4
Sintesi	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.	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.