Participants will learn to develop the ability to discern trends and signals in a constantly evolving world, exploring their relevance and interconnectedness for your own organization; create tangible future scenarios and uncover (un)desirable futures; refine assumptions about potential future needs through experiential prototypes, fostering meaningful discussions and derive concrete action options and strategies from envisioned goals.

Benedikt Groß is a speculative and computational designer who works antidisciplinarily. He is a professor of Strategic and Interaction Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.
His work deals with the fascination of relationships between people, their data, technology and environments. He is particularly interested to speculate about these relationships in the near future. He uses design as a vehicle to visualize potential implications and scenarios.

Eileen Mandir combines her experiences in design, engineering and coaching to create discourse and change – for people, systems and organizations.
She is Professor for Systemic Design at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Munich.

Two full days, one as an instructed tutorial workshop, the other as self-guided project work.

The workshop will focus on the topic of “Futures of Work Post AI”

Day 1

• Welcome
• Warm up: Polak game
• Talk: What is Design Futuring?

• Theory: Signals and Horizon Scanning
• Teamwork: STEEP (Socio-cultural, economic, environmental, political) Future Wheel

• Theory: Scenarios and Uncertainties
• Teamwork: 2 x 2 Scenarios
• Show & tell and wrap ups

Day 2

• Theory: Narrative and Artefacts

• Theory: Strategy and Value Negotiation
• Teamwork: Prototyping staging

• Teamwork: Staging
• Theory: Backcasting and Three Horizons
• FAQs and Transfer
• Wrap up

Do I need to be a designer to participate? No. This workshop is made for strategists, innovators, designers, artists, decision-makers, thought leaders, organizational developers, and anyone interested in methods to actively thinker around future scenarios.