Abstract
This article examines the Dreams and Disruptions Game as a foresight game designed for post-normal contexts where uncertainty, contested information, and value conflict complicate future-oriented decision-making. The paper situates foresight games within futures studies as participatory instruments that surface hidden assumptions, expand imaginative range, and support collective sensemaking under disruption. It outlines the game’s design logic across four phases, drawing on six conceptual drivers—randomness, collective social psychology, leadership archetypes, existential risks and threats, improvisation, and play—to structure scenario-building, stress-testing, and strategic response. Two illustrative case vignettes demonstrate how participants use the game to generate hybrid futures, interrogate systemic dynamics, and rehearse responses to crisis and governance tension. The article also introduces experimental AI-enabled play modes that accelerate content generation while preserving human facilitation, deliberation, and interpretive work. Overall, Dreams and Disruptions is presented as an epistemic tool that democratizes futures inquiry by making anticipation experiential, relational, and ethically situated, while remaining adaptable across sectors and cultural contexts.