URL: https://www.temporalimagination.org/resources/deadlines
Timelines, deadlines and lifelines is a workshop that explores some of the habits we have of thinking with time that are inherited and powerful. The activities explore how these habits shape how we think about the possibility of change.
The Timelines, deadlines and lifelines workshop was first delivered as a pilot in 2024 as part of Getting the timing right, a two-day event for people working towards sustainability and justice. The event was delivered in collaboration with Michel Alhadeff-Jones through the BA programme The Times of a Just Transition.
A very cool sounding workshop that could be great for bringing a team or people together.
The poster created from it is beautiful:
The Timelines, deadlines and lifelines workshop uses a set of bespoke illustrations that act as prompts for people to explore how deadlines operate in different situations and to see challenges we are facing differently.
Inspired by people’s responses to the illustrations, and to the questions they help raise about people’s experiences of deadlines, we have made Types of deadlines, a poster displaying 15 different illustrations.
The types of deadlines illustrated on the poster:
- unexpected
- counterproductive
- disruptive
- restrictive
- impossible
- porous
- missing
- cyclical
- imposed
- phantom
- mutual
- fugitive
- stifling
- ignored
- pressured