DIG SOUTH Interactive Festival

The goal of this workshop is to demonstrate how futures studies (also known as foresight) can help designers and strategists: (i) imagine a functional forward view of future worlds, (ii) create services/products in the contexts of those worlds (iii) understand systemic implications based on the relationship between the service/product and the future world. During this workshop we introduce some of the basic concepts of future studies and drawing from the decades of research in this field, teach and practice specific futures methods. These methods will then combined with more traditional design tools (e.g. user research, journey mapping, rapid prototyping etc.) to demonstrate how futures can empower designers and strategists to deal with change.