Abstract
This paper considers the significance and potential of using a workshop-based scenario
development method from futures studies to pluralistically and critically explore future societies
in the context of introducing weather modification as a largely unknown technology. Across
three experimental scenario workshops, university students (n=148) envisioned future societies
with advanced weather modification technology development. We identified six main and 16
sub-patterns from the scenarios created, then examined issues and concerns of participants from
which scenarios arose. Lastly, we discuss the significance and issues of employing this kind of
scenario workshop as a method for conducting citizen dialogues and workshops on the topic of
weather modification.