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'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.'''   
'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.'''  This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.
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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 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 work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores 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.
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined  for use in workshops or simulations.


== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =
 
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.
 
The fully developed toolkit will provide 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]]'''.
 
= Contributions welcome =


* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. 
The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.
* '''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 ==
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows through participant engagement and welcomes plural scenarios and narratives beyond UK, USA and European contexts.


As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.
Anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination.  


The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination.  
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'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.
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Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==


Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work.
* '''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.


== Public Outreach ==
== Public Outreach ==
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'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops.   
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops.   
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki after it is formally released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.


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