PLURALAKES Facilitation guide now available
We are pleased to announce the publication of the PLURALAKES Facilitation Guide for our visioning workshops, now openly available via Zenodo. The guide provides a step-by-step account of how the PLURALAKES visioning workshops were designed and facilitated.
The workshop design combines two complementary methodological approaches. First, the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is used to broaden participants’ perspectives on possible and desirable people–lake relations. Second, the X-curve method is applied to help participants structure these visions across distinct time horizons, while identifying key opportunities (or “seeds”) and barriers that may shape transformation pathways. Further, these workshops invite local and regional actors to collaboratively develop desired future visions for their case study lake(s) and the surrounding watershed(s).
To date, two visioning workshops have been conducted: one in the English Lake District and one in the Koitajoki–Koitere river basin. Drawing on reflections from these cases, the guide also presents initial lessons learned, along with practical suggestions and tools for data collection, analysis, and organization. In 2026, this guide will provide the methodological foundation our upcoming workshop in Frisian Boezem.
The next phase of the PLURALAKES project will focus on the co-development and modelling of possible pathways to achieve the articulated visions. These pathways will then be discussed with participating actors to identify preferred and actionable options. The resulting visions and pathways will ultimately be shared with decision makers to support evidence-informed and participatory lake governance.
Available via Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18455489
