We have been guided by a passion and vision to link foresight and action. The link between design thinking and foresight has become more prominent, with renewed emphases on social innovation, social entrepreneurship and co-creativity.
A new generation of design thinking is emerging, trans-disciplinary, engaging across art, science and technology, commons-oriented and deeply collaborative and participatory. Service design thinking has become an important approach in the interface between creative industries, enterprise creation and social innovation. Service design both incorporates the use of foresight as leverage in conceptualizing services and innovations in the context of social change, and incorporates a participatory and (design ethnography) orientation so that design is tightly coupled with end users.
Applications for Anticipatory Design ranges from project development, and social innovation incubation to larger scale urban design foresight and anticipatory policy development.
Projects in this area includes:
Creating the Age Friendly City: An Initial Evaluation
Financial Resilience Living Lab
Publications in this area include:
Forging the Synergy between Anticipation and Innovation: The Futures Action Model
From Social foresight to social entrepreneurship: pathways to sustainability