The exploratory Future Uses of Space project was funded by Research England and CAPE. The project’s purpose was to demonstrate how narrative evidence can inform decision-making. The project report, Reading the Stars: Narrative Evidence for Space Strategy, identifies, synthesises, and presents narrative evidence on space to drive the development of better space policies and strategies. It is presented here, alongside other key project documents: a Project Summary, outlining the activities and phases of the project, including a conceptual map of the project as a whole, and of the workshop; a Key Policy Concerns document; Synthesis Guidance for the academics commissioned by the project, and the Synthesis Papers they produced; all the materials for the Workshop; and, Storylistening Methods Charts, which provide a graphic representation of a highly generalised project to provide evidence for policy, showing how narrative evidence can be included within such a structure. We present these materials with the intention that they might provide insights and guidance for the design of future projects concerned with public reasoning, the humanities and narrative evidence.
