Prometheus Protocol

We don't need to predict the future to become more capable of meeting it.

A rehearsal gives us something prediction can't: experience.You can enter a situation, try something, see what happens, change your move, notice what others can see that you couldn't.Prometheus is a space for doing that.

The point isn't to create the perfect solution, but to rehearse how a collective response might shift the current trajectory.

Enter
^{the story}

You enter a fictional but plausible situation and take a position within it.

Freeze
^{the moment}

A difficult decision appears. We pause and look at what is at stake.

Step in
^{and change}

You can intervene, challenge an assumption, propose another possibility and see what happens.

Debrief
^{What emerged?}

We step out of the story and ask what it revealed about the systems, relationships and choices around us.

Why AI? Why now?

AI is reshaping public life.

AI is already changing the conditions under which we work, decide and organise our lives.That makes it a question not just about technology, but a question about power and who gets a say.Most people encounter Al as something already decided: the tools arrive, the systems are adopted.Prometheus creates a different experience: participants step into live scenarios where decisions about AI, ownership and public value are still unfolding, and rehearse what collective agency feels like before those decisions become fixed.

Who decides? Who owns?
Who benefits? Who gets to intervene?

How might we develop the capacity to act together before those decisions become fixed?

The myth of Prometheus

A story about fire, power and what happens next.

In the ancient myth, Prometheus steals fire from the gods and gives it to humanity. Fire is knowledge, technology, power. And once humans have it, the world changes.The myth has been retold for thousands of years, but some questions keep returning:

Who governs the things that can transform the world?What do we do when something powerful arrives before we've figured out how to live with it?

Prometheus is part of

Collective Futures

Live experiments for making sense of complex change.

We create situations where people can imagine, encounter and rehearse new possibilities around questions too difficult to work through discussion alone.

Futures can start to feel more open once we've had a chance to rehearse them.

Stories
to open up possibilities

Roles
to inhabit different perspectives

Scenarios
to explore plausible futures

Play
to test, fail and imagine again

Reflection
to turn experience into learning

Who is behind this?

Alexandra Stef

Founder, Collective Futures

Alexandra's work connects action research, civic innovation, community organising, futures and participatory practice. For more than 15 years, she's worked with communities, organisations and networks to create spaces for collective learning, experimentation, and community-led change.

“I'm interested in what happens when we admit we don't know what to do, and try something anyway.”

Oxford
^{April 2026}

São Paulo
^{May 2026}

Coimbra
^{June 2026}

Sibiu
^{July 2026}

Brussels
^{Sept 2026}

HOST

Bring the experience to your community or organisation.

ADAPT

Explore another place, question or transition.

CO-DESIGN

Create a new experiment around a challenge you're facing.

COLLABORATE

Develop research, learning or experimentation together.

Sometimes the next move is an adapted Prometheus. Sometimes it's something entirely new.
What are you trying to navigate? What might we learn by rehearsing it together?

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