Post-Detection Toolkit
Post-Detection Toolkit
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance as guidance on how to adapt and use them. It includes invitations for participants to generate or simplify their own scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination.
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts, encouraging imaginative breadth to conceive of many different futures of 2050 underpinned by diverse values and cultural priorities.
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.