Foresight and Backcasting

Simonse, L. W. L. (Chair of programme committee)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Period	3 Sept 2024 → …
Event type	Course
Location	Delft, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

foresight, backcasting, future vision, creative trend research, trends, visual trend spotting, strategic trend scaniing, future making, roadmap, time pacing, vision concepts

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Time is of strategic importance in understanding, leveraging and influencing socio-technical transitions. Recent research in the field of strategic design indicates an important shift from anticipating and coping with the future towards future making and designing foresights. This course takes a particular interest in collectively designing and imagining foresights by expressing and materializing future visions in strategic practice. In this course you will learn and practice methods and techniques of creative trend research, designing future visions and back-casting by a strategic design roadmap. You will develop analytical, envisioning, and modelling skills vis-a-vis providing strategic support for organizations to innovate along meaningful pathways (future literacy, exploratory mindset & imagination, and responsible design & engagement). This is an SPD programme core course.

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Design of vision concepts to explore the future: Nature, context and design techniques
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Time pacing strategy
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Strategic Design: Strategizing in the Nexus between Imagination and Futures time
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Designing foresights by communities: a new groundbreaker role for strategic design
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Trend Scanning and Trend Spotting: In Pursue of Value Creation Directions in Design Roadmapping
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Innovation roadmapping: Building a theoretical framework from multiple cases of industrial firms
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Future Visioning
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How strategic design abilities address unmet value in service engagement strategies
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