Bringing Futures to Life Through Design

Bringing Futures to Life Through Design: Prototyping Possible Tomorrows offers a practical approach to making uncertain futures tangible, enabling people to move beyond abstract forecasts and actively experience, explore, and shape possible tomorrows.

Structured around a seven-step framework - Think, Experience, Imagine, Story, Perform, Travel, and Learn - the book demonstrates how design can transform ideas about the future into immersive and physical experiences. Drawing on case studies from around the world, it shows how prototyping possible futures can help individuals and organisations explore the human implications of change across different cultures, contexts, and timescales. Moving beyond a narrow focus on technological innovation, the book provides practical methods for turning abstract challenges and aspirations into experiences that people can see, touch, discuss, and enact, encouraging more creative and participatory approaches to navigating uncertainty and imagining alternative futures.

This book will appeal to students and practitioners of design, futures studies, strategic foresight, and innovation, as well as strategists, educators, community leaders, and organisations seeking practical tools for anticipating change and shaping more desirable futures.