Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow

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.

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.

Create four imagined futures based on different archetypes.

Anyone from the world of design, business world, strategy, and even art.

The materials you need are: a long roll of paper, pieces of paper, sticky notes, colored markers, and a computer.