10 – 30 min
Play
A short opener. The group warms up and switches perspective.
- Check-in with the image side
- Improvisation between two personas
- A rumour from the future
A card deck for futures workshops
Fifty people from the future. For your next seminar.
Scenona® Cards are 50 future personas, each told in the first person. Your group steps into a role, thinks from inside it and works out what to do today. Comes with a playbook for sessions from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Used at universities and organisations
50future personas
100+workshops tested
15countries on Kickstarter
Ambassadors from Ulm University · TU Berlin · University of Bayreuth · Design Factory Stuttgart · ARENA2036 and others
Futures workshops for Volkswagen · Deutsche Telekom · MaibornWolff · AEB · Featured in FAZ
Try it
Draw a card.
An image on the front. On the back, a first-person story from a possible future and a question for you. Every workshop starts this way: take on a role, introduce yourself, start talking.
For teaching
What your students learn with the cards.
Fits modules in innovation, design, entrepreneurship, sustainability and futures studies.
- Futures literacyUnderstand the future as a space of several possibilities, not a forecast.
- Perspective-takingArgue from a role that is not your own.
- Scenario thinkingDevelop, compare and justify your own images of the future.
- Questioning assumptionsSpot hidden assumptions in images of the future, for example with Causal Layered Analysis.
- From insight to actionUse retropolation to work back from 2050 to concrete steps today.
How to use
Play, Create, Challenge.
The playbook links every exercise to a goal. You choose by what your group should be able to do at the end.
1 – 3 hrs
Create
The roles turn into your own images of the future, scenarios and ideas.
- A day in the life of a persona
- Your own future simulation
- Designing new personas
3 hrs and more
Challenge
Results become usable for strategy, research or teaching.
- Retropolation
- DNA analysis of the future image
- Causal Layered Analysis
“Wonderfully developed persona cards and proven hands-on ideas to create scenarios, challenge mindsets, and playfully brainstorm.”
Packages
The price on your quote is the price you pay.
Every package includes the printed cards, the playbook and the digital cards. Choose English, German or a mix.
1 deck
Single deck
€49
for facilitators and to get to know the cards
- 50 printed cards
- Playbook as PDF
- Digital cards
5 decks
Seminar set
€199
€39.80 per deck
- 5 × 50 cards
- Playbook as PDF
- Digital cards
- Printable canvases
10 decks · for seminar groups
Course set
€349
€34.90 per deck
- 10 × 50 cards
- Playbook as PDF
- Digital cards
- Printable canvases
20 decks + introduction
Project package
€990
incl. 60-minute online introduction
- 20 × 50 cards
- Introduction for your team
- Playbook, digital cards, canvases
All prices are final. As a small business under § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG), I do not charge VAT. For universities and public institutions, the amount on the quote is the amount you pay. Shipping within Germany is included; for other countries, shipping is added to your quote.
Try it for free
5 cards and a 30-minute session plan as a PDF.
Try the cards in your next session before you order. You can download the sample straight away.
What's included
What's in every deck.
- 50 cards
- Future personas from the Bee Counter to the Quantum PhysicistImage side and first-person story with a guiding question
- 55 pages
- Workshop playbookSession plans for 30 min, 1 hr and 3 hrs
- 50 images
- Digital cardsfor online workshops in Miro or Mural
- 2 canvases
- Future Journey and Persona Deep Diveto print in A3
- EN · DE
- Two languagescan be mixed in one order
Request
Your quote in one step.
You'll receive a quote as a PDF for your procurement within two working days.
- Pay by invoice for institutions
- Your PO number or cost centre goes on the quote
- Larger quantities or custom editions on request
Email: hello@scenonacards.com
Questions
Questions about ordering and using the cards
Do we get an invoice for procurement?
Yes. You first receive a quote as a PDF, then an invoice after delivery, with your PO number or cost centre if needed. Payment by bank transfer within 30 days.
Why is there no VAT on the invoice?
I am registered as a small business under § 19 of the German VAT Act and do not charge VAT. The price on the quote is the final amount.
Do you ship outside Germany?
Yes. Enter your delivery country in the form and I'll include shipping in your quote.
The cards say thefuturegame2050.com. Is that still current?
Scenona Cards used to be called The Future Game 2050. The old address printed on the cards no longer works. You will find everything current, the playbook and ordering here at scenonacards.com.
How were the images made?
The images were created with the AI program Midjourney and then edited. We chose them for diversity: different bodies, backgrounds and ages rather than advertising models. The texts were written by people, based on trend research.
Why are all the personas women?
For centuries, women were seen as an add-on to men. The cards turn that around. It briefly unsettles some groups, and that is exactly what opens up the conversation about assumptions.
Which year are the cards set in?
None in particular. Some groups place a persona in 2035, others in 2100. The disagreement is intended and a good way into discussing probable and preferable futures.
What age and group size do the cards suit?
From about age 12, and from 5 to over 1,000 participants. Large groups work in pairs.
Behind the cards
Friederike Riemer
Futurist (M.A. Futures Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) and design thinking coach. Since 2019 she has developed and tested the future personas in workshops with students, executives and conference audiences, first as The Future Game 2050 and, since 2023, as Scenona® Cards.
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