Workshops

With a group of designers and collaborators, I develop a range of custom interactive workshop formats to help communicate, collaborate and co-author new ideas and innovations for better futures. Below are some examples of workshops we’ve produced. We are constantly adding more creative and experiential, object-centered formats.

• Scanning and Intelligence Networks — Effective signal detection and analysis is the foundation for effective strategic foresight. We offer half, whole day and two-day scanning skills workshops to help you develop a collaborative sensing network that is flexible and effective at tapping the observational skills of your organization for richer insights. These focus on desk research skills, effective use of social media for intelligence gathering and sharing, and environmental scanning in the outside world. 

• Scenario Development — We excel at this baseline method for identifying important driving forces, critical uncertainties, and alternative futures. From the initial research highlighting emerging trends and drivers, to facilitated workshops that drive groups to think past their own dominant views of the future, to active implementation, we provide a full scenario development and exploration process, including custom variations that best suit individual organizations’ needs.

• Roadmapping — To see a whole market or region unfold in context, we take a multi-segment view of the next 5-10 years, identifying important phases and themes, business and design implications and establishing actions to take advantage of new opportunities that emerge from the analysis. 

• Future Fabbing — Our future fabbing workshops involve speculative prototyping based on possible futures participants co-develop. These hands on workshops feel more like play, and let participants design, create and interact with artifacts from these futures. See these examples for more on our freeflowing future-fabbing processes.