Immersion materials that help participants imagine a shared future context before developing democratic innovation ideas. They can take different forms, such as future news pieces, future letters, flyers, pictures, or short story snippets. They are most useful at the start of the Futuring activity, before working with the Democratic Innovations Wheel.

A structured perspective taking technique that helps participants explore an idea through different lenses, such as facts, emotions, risks, benefits, and alternatives. These cards are most useful during Futuring activities, after an initial idea has been developed with the Democratic innovations wheel and before storyboarding, especially when participants want to strengthen a proposal, surface tensions, or review an idea from contrasting perspectives.