Visions should be realistic (i.e. they are not science fiction), tangible (i.e. they should be meaningful, easily imagined within people’s normal experience), and they should be specific to your problem (i.e. place and setting). However, your vision should also be creative, ambitious, and inspiring. This is the “most desirable” or “best case” possible outcome. It’s even ok to be a bit utopian and radical. But just a bit. No more than that. Mostly, be realistic. Welcome to the visioning process.
A. “Day in the Life” narrative for threemain stakeholders:(2 pts each = 6 pts)
Start by thinking about what the “Day in the Life” would be for each of three stakeholders involved in your problem topic. State who each stakeholder is in the context of your topic, and then imagine their vision for a positive and sustainable outcome in 25 years.Each description should be a two or three sentence day-in-the-life vignette for that stakeholder.
Example: Stakeholder: Fisherman
“Four days a week I go out in my boat and unlike before I always find big fish and lots of crab that bring money back into my community but more importantly into my household. The fish are no longer small and the job has become very reliable for me even though it is hard work. Today, I don’t fish and I am working in the community farm which the government helped us to establish and showed us new farming methods that are good for environment as well as ways for the community.”
B. 25-year Vision:(5.5 pts)
Synthesize the different stakeholder perspectives and other ideas you might have into a general description of your overall vision (Refer to Figures 22 and 23 on page 314-315 of RD Chapter 27 for examples). Your vision should be about 400-500 words in length. Make sure that each paragraph describes a different aspect of the system. Another approach could be to describe how the different sectors (economic, government, social etc.) come together to affect different aspects in people’s lives like working, getting about (transport), recreation, and eating.