The central mission of this new field of activity for designers is to enable stakeholders from all areas of society to imagine and negotiate different (desirable) futures using the tools of design. The focus is on designing future scenarios that are tangible, tangible and tangible in order to motivate decision-makers from business, politics and society to take action. In a structured creative process, a wide variety of methods from design, futurology, coaching and strategic management enable an analytical and systematic examination of many future scenarios. Different creativity tools expand the imagination for "better" future scenarios that portray the everyday life of ordinary people. After all, the one seemingly inevitable future does not exist.
The book's guiding principles:
- Our world is complex and difficult to understand.
- The task of designers is changing to strategy development.
- Designers slip into a new role as mediators between research and politics, society.
- Designers need new methods from futurology to be able to negotiate futures.
- With Design Futuring, designers can create future scenarios in order to stimulate a discourse about diverse ideas of the future. These futures enable participants to imagine, discuss and negotiate not just one future, but many desirable futures.
Wed 30 Nov, 18:30, Faculty of Design, Large Lecture Hall (X. 1.022), Lothstr. 17, Munich.
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