Co-creating positive narratives for small-scale fisheries in Europe

This case study is a one-day (5h) visioning exercise implemented during a longer workshop (1 week / IYAFA Regional Workshop: Getting the Story Straight and Envisioning a Fair Future for Small-Scale Fisheries in Europe) with small-scale fishers from across Europe, organized by the LIFE Platform, ICSF, and Mulleres Salgadas.

The main goal of this visioning exercise was to develop desirable narratives and visions for small-scale fisheries in Europe by engaging workshop participants in a creative, interactive, and inspiring co-creation process. In addition, the exercise aimed to help participants feel more hopeful, counteracting the sense of being overwhelmed by the crises facing small-scale fisheries, and to set the scene for the workshop sessions that followed (which were not directly related to futures co-creation). To do this, we combined several approaches and futures-related methods (Seeds of Good Anthropocenes, the Manoa Mash-Up method), along with the use of personas, in a participatory setting involving small-scale fishers and their representatives. During the workshop, an artist captured emerging ideas to develop an illustration summarizing the session, which was later shared with all participants.

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The scenarios were made in: 2023

The scenarios look out to: The five visions in this case study portray different time horizons (e.g. 2035, 2075, 3 generations from the co-creation date (ca. 2113), 2 visions did not define the time horizon)

Submitted by:

Ignacio Gianelli
Project Leader
August 17, 2026

How to cite this page:

Ignacio Gianelli
Co-creating positive narratives for small-scale fisheries in Europe
www.biospherefutures.net
2026/08/17
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