However, confronting with climate change related artwork disrupts everyday life, engages emotionally and triggers climate change relevant cognitions, the translation of this impulse into action requires addi-tional support. Thus, NIYF goes further, and combines disruptive artwork / (eco)visualization with a struc-tured approach to co-create solutions, unlock creativity and societal capacities: from motivation to action. This is done in the form of vision workshops following a structured three step methodology. 

Figure: Schematic representation of the Nature In Your Face methodology 

The “Framing” pillar has the intent of (a) providing the necessary level of engagement by confronting and emotionalizing experiences, and (b) limiting the problem to a manageable size and open a creative space. Artworks or eco-visualizations are developed to realize the disruption of routines and practices. Then, engaged citizens are invited to a series of low-threshold vision-workshops (several series of workshops for different target groups, e.g., children and adults) to create, explore and negotiate solutions for the challenges brought to the table by the initial disrupting impulse. Limiting the scope of the challenge the-matically or contextually helps overcoming the “empty canvas syndrome,” i.e., the fact that total freedom may be demotivating.

Once the problem area is framed, “Twisting” starts in the vision-workshops. The intent of twisting is to get the participants into a creative and visionary mode. This is done by presenting truly ambitious or near impossible challenges or thought experiments to reach the carbon-neutral lifestyle without creating injus-tice. In the twisting stage, the workshops structure the exploration of radical alternatives, their potential impacts on different target groups, and pathways to reach them within the short timeframe available until 2030. Different alternatives are negotiated between citizens and stakeholders from the civil, public, and private sector. 

The third pillar is “Using,” which in this context means that the knowledge, ideas, and solutions that have been developed and negotiated as part of the previous two phases are used or taken forward. The key issue here is not necessarily to implement all solutions but to acknowledge the importance of these ideas and discussions and consider and/or elaborate on them.