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The Post-Detection ~~Scenario~~ Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.

The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.

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The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.

The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.

The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection situations''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.

The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.

It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.

== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==

* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods.

* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.

* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.

== A Commons Resource ==

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* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.

~~== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==~~

* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods.

* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.

* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.

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-The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.
+The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.
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-The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.
+The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.
-The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection situations''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.
+The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.
 It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.
+== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==
+* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods.
+* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.
+* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.
 == A Commons Resource ==
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 * '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.
-== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==
-* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods.
-* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.
-* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.
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