Actionable Futures Workshop and Toolkit

Google Design2018-12-10

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The video combines design and foresight to help people envision desired futures, using techniques from game design and science fiction. It emphasizes discussing fears, building tangible ideas, and promoting diversity and inclusivity for sustainable and positive futures globally.

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Creating Actionable Futures Through Design and Foresight.

00:10

Techniques from game design and science fiction are utilized to envision the desired future, promoting empathy for what lies ahead.

Emphasis is placed on openly discussing fears and developing concrete ideas for the future, with an emphasis on sustainability and actionability.

Diversity and inclusivity are crucial in shaping a positive and inclusive future on a global scale.

The session aims to inspire optimism and a proactive approach towards building a better future for all.

00:01[Music]

00:04my session is called the actionable

00:07futures and it's about making fuses of

00:10matter so combining design and foresight

00:13into a framework kind of like a toolkit

00:15to actually enable people to look beyond

00:18just like what's next we will borrow

00:20techniques from game design from science

00:23fiction to actually figure out what is

00:25the world we want like it helps people

00:29to have empathy for the future

00:32imagination is really powerful tool for

00:35empathy if we set out the year let's say

00:372025 what is the world like who makes

00:40decisions who are the other stakeholders

00:41what's their motivations when we start

00:44figuring who are the change makers what

00:46are the macro trends that affect our

00:49lives after that we start mapping out

00:52what are the possible anti futures what

00:54are the risks we see in horizon the

00:56futures gonna be messy it's gonna be

00:59complicated this sort of like forces

01:01people to talk very honestly about their

01:05fears about the future this also that

01:07leads us into building very tangible

01:10ideas about the future our purpose is to

01:12make the futures the ideas we want above

01:15futures actionable so we can actually

01:18progressively start working towards them

01:20- prototyping - testing

01:21whatever what is needed really enables

01:24companies people think beyond the

01:27current problems they have usually when

01:30you work in a big corporation for

01:32example you get people with back-to-back

01:35meetings there's always the next fire

01:37around the corner that they have to pull

01:38out and we have to kind of look past

01:40just beyond immediate profit immediate

01:43growth and figure out ways to how to

01:46actually make the growth sustainable how

01:48to make our future sustainable when we

01:51talk about sort of futures we want

01:53futures day one it's not you or me I

01:55it's all of us so what's what's good for

01:57Humanity

01:59and that I think is very very important

02:03for tech industry so because we need

02:06more diversity we need more inclusive we

02:09need to look beyond just like northern

02:12America just Europe we need to make the

02:14futures that are more diverse and

02:16inclusive I hope that they have just a

02:19little spark the back of their heads

02:21actually that makes them want to build

02:23positive features make them want to be

02:25optimistic about change and build sort

02:28of the futures they want to happen

02:33[Music]

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