1) Setting: To define the situation or problem and its temporality: any event has a past, a present and implication for the future. By analyzing the context it is possible to recognize those “others” as forces prevailing or influencing our design. We have to interact with them, to understand them, and to challenge them in order to overcome expectations, pressures, rules, and constraints.

2) Actors: Define the f(actors) that have an important or meaningful role performing in the situation.

3) Dramatic conflict: those actions taken not only for practical facts but also as symbols, or interpretations. The use of metaphor becomes necessary or useful here. What are the challenges, opportunities, dangers, and possibilities that we want to confront or evade with our design?

4) Possible resolutions: We end the narrative in ways that satisfy and convince the reader or listener. The resolution is how we resolve and overcome obstacles, restrictions and rules.

5) Uncertainties: As facts have a broad array of explanations, design has many potential interpretations. We can try them out as desired scenarios created by the student, where diversity and plurality are embedded in (the realm of) a creative narrative imagination.