Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow
A course by Stef SilvaDesigner and Cultural Researcher
A course by Stef Silva, Designer and Cultural Researcher
Learn to design innovative, long-term solutions and generate positive changes in society by anticipating future scenarios
Want to become an agent of change? Or even learn how to anticipate the future? Designer and cultural researcher Stef Silva has carved out a career in imagining possible situations with the aim of generating a positive impact in society. In this course, she invites you to reimagine the avant-garde and build a brighter future.
Learn to anticipate scenarios with a view to designing a more conscious way of life in the long term and pave the way to a desirable future for everyone. Through research, analyze the behavior of companies, people, and societies in general in order to understand and foresee how future events will unfold, exploring new, innovative, and respectful paths.
What will you learn in this online course?
11 lessons & 19 downloads
What is the future?
8 minutes, 43 seconds
Choosing a focal topic to start exploring
2 minutes, 13 seconds
Search for signs of change
7 minutes, 59 seconds
Scanning the world and looking for your own signals
11 minutes, 37 seconds
Futures wheel
11 minutes, 2 seconds
What if...?
7 minutes, 23 seconds
What's included in this course?
Stef Silva starts the course by telling you about her past in order to guide you towards the future. She tells you a little more about her professional journey and the artists that have inspired her creative process.
Next, look at the essential aspects of future thinking and do a series of exercises to delve deeper into the concept. Learn to look for relevant information that could signal change.
Keep working on the consequences and possible outcomes of all the things you previously detected. Get to know Jim Dator's future archetypes and represent the scenarios by way of a series of mood boards.
Create a basic road map with three key moments to get to the best possible scenario. Stef teaches you to make decisions that help get you that little bit closer to an ideal future for everyone.
What is this course's project?
Create four imagined futures based on different archetypes.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone from the world of design, business world, strategy, and even art.
Requirements and materials
The materials you need are: a long roll of paper, pieces of paper, sticky notes, colored markers, and a computer.
Reviews
- 3 months ago
Muy interesante
- 4 months ago
Esperaba más de una experta, como "nivel iniciación" queda muy justo. Prefería más herramientas, prácticas, recursos compatibles con la disciplina (ej: en vez de enseñar solo y extensivamente la rueda con ejemplos muy concretos, dedicar 1/4 del tiempo a presentar 4 alternativas; así cada quien puede escoger la que considere más útil o adecuada a cada fin). Apenas se explica el uso del cono. Además observo que Stef hace valoraciones de carácter moral o ético, un idealismo prescindible al tema.
- 1 year ago
Ótimo curso!!! Aproveitem!!!
- 1 year ago
tiene una visión y estructura fresca, te entrega herramientas o métodos para resolver cuando uno inicia proyectos, eso ayuda mucho para las personas que sobre piensan en sus proyectos,
- 2 years ago
Me ayudó a retomar el usp de herramientas basadas en el diseño. La expositora implementa un proceso sencillo y práctico para la exploración y diseño de posibles futuros.
Before starting her own business, she formed a key part of leading innovation agencies in Spain, combining this work with teaching at various universities and educational centers in the field of design. In 2021, she was named one of the 40 most important futurists in Spain by Forbes Magazine. She has also organized the international PrimerEU19 event on future thinking and participated in Speculative Futures Madrid for several years.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Presentation
- Influences
- U2
How to think about the future
- What is the future?
- Choosing a focal topic to start exploring
- Search for signs of change
- Scanning the world and looking for your own signals
- U3
Anticipating possible futures
- Futures wheel
- What if...?
- Imaginaries of the future
- U4
Commitment to the future
- Backcasting
- Monitoring
- FP
Final project
- Intro to Futures Design: Look Forward to Tomorrow
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FAQs
Future design is a discipline that anticipates possible scenarios by analyzing trends and signals of change. It helps visualize alternatives, make better decisions, and create adaptive strategies in personal, professional, and organizational contexts.
This course is aimed at intermediate learners, ideal for those with basic knowledge in design, social analysis, or strategy who want to deepen their skills in anticipation tools and future scenarios.
You will learn to spot signals of change, analyze trends, build future scenarios, apply foresight methodologies, create strategic roadmaps, and visualize consequences to anticipate and manage uncertainty across different fields.
You only need basic knowledge of design, creativity, or social analysis, plus access to collaborative digital tools. No advanced technical prerequisites are required.
The course uses tools like the Futures Cone, Backcasting, STEEPV/PESTEL, weak signal analysis, and scenario visualization exercises to anticipate trends and develop adaptive strategies.
Context mapping involves analyzing social, technological, cultural, and political dimensions to understand the environment and identify key forces of change that shape future scenarios.
You’ll learn to search for signals from various sources like social media or urban studies and classify them using frameworks such as STEEPV to organize and assess their impact in different areas.