Design-inspired Futures

A design approach for innovation, debate and futures thinking

Evocative stories, iconic objects, media infiltrations, physical sketches of what could be: Design outputs are tangible and imaginative and allow us to engage, explore and believe.

Combined with a setting and tools that are designed to inspire and support collaboration, a group of exciting people and a power- and playful process, these outputs allow us to make informed decisions about how we want to shape for instance a technology, material, trend or behaviour.

At Fuchsia, together with Scott Hartop and James King, we are designing a series of roundtable workshops called The Futures Of... in which senior decision makers and thought leaders explore and shape the futures of a variety of key themes.

Led by our interest in Sensory Substitution, we have created objects like the Eye Candy lollipop (here and here) which pre-empt a mass-manufactured consumer product and we were prepared to dance on the streets of New York in order to induce curious interest in a magical, yet hardly known ability of our brain.

We are excited about being able to think and play in order to shape the things to come.

The Disappearing Home

Announcing the first roundtable in The Futures Of... series

by Beta Tank on October 01, 2008

We are calling for expressions of interest for the first of a series of roundtable workshops around the theme of the built environment on Wednesday, October 22. We are looking for ten senior decision makers and thought leaders who can take results and insights from The Disappearing Home roundtable into their daily practice.

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Keywords: Design-inspired Futures, Fuchsia, Futures, workshops