ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the issue of creativity in anticipation practices, with a special attention to scenario design. The first section stresses the difficulty of thinking scenarios in motion beyond end-states and plausibility, as well as of anticipating stakeholders’ own capacities to act. The second section examines, in an iterative and potentially never-ending process, how action may serve as an Ariadne’s thread either to anticipate the ramifications of action beyond weak signals or to imagine novel futures from a tabula rasa. Questioning the end of paradigms, the concluding section explores the irreversibility of stakeholders’ capacities to act and the rhythms of action over time.
