Distributed Knowledge Building and Flows at the International Conference on Design Futures * Journal of Futures Studies Facing the drastic changes in the current international society, thinking and looking into the future picture is becoming a new starting point and foothold for design innovation. Considering that, in ...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #designfutures and #futuresstudies help us focus on how to use #futuresconcepts to #redesign the present? Aiming to realize more #desirablefutures for the community with #sharedfutures through co-design, speculative method and #reflective time, how can

Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Critical Pedagogy for Design Futures Education * Journal of Futures Studies This essay considers the meaning of criticality in design futures education. It identifies three such meanings – criticality as an indication of importance, as a style of reasoning, and as attentivene...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #educators improve teaching for #transformation in the #future? What lessons can a critical approach to #pedagogy can be learned in the pursuit of improving #education curriculum for #designfutures? Come explore in this wonderful essay by Laura Barendregt,

adaptation and #crossparadigmatic learning. #futuresstudies #futuresdesign #designfutures #futuresliteracy #futuresthinking @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

#futuresliteracy #designfutures @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

“There’s a story there.”

Dr. Susan Strawn explores how meaningful innovation can start from personal archives. Her journey through textile history uncovers stories that connect the past and future.

⚫Full episode: youtu.be/V66OT9iJXm8

#iNNOVATIONInsights #DesignFutures #CulturalInnovation

Pair 3D printing with AI design, and we get structures that mimic nature — lightweight, organic, and strong.
Think bone or coral, but engineered by algorithms.
That’s how early starship “DNA” might look.
#AI #DesignFutures

Royal coat of arms and logo for the Royal College of Arts, one of the top arts universities in the world here in London. The white logo and text is superimposed on a dark purple-grey filtered photo of the Dyson building campus.

Couple of weeks to go before I’ll be doing a guest lecture at the RCA for their Design Ethics class, part of the Design Futures masters MDes. 🤗 #RCADesignFutures #DesignFutures #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco

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The Blueprint for Tomorrow: 建築設計３会's Proposals to 国交省 for Empowering Architects and Firms

#ArchitecturePolicy #DesignFutures #ProfessionalDevelopment #JapaneseDesign mos-architecture-design-en.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-blueprint-fo...

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Beyond the Blueprint: Decoding the 2025 Good Design Award Winners Announced via Digital PR Platform

#GoodDesignAward2025 #DesignInnovation #DigitalPR #DesignFutures mos-architecture-design-en.blogspot.com/2025/10/beyond-blueprint...

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Shaping Tomorrow: Makiko Tsumura to Lead World Design Organization into a New Era

#WorldDesignOrganization #DesignLeadership #DesignFutures #DesignInnovation mos-architecture-design-en.blogspot.com/2025/09/shaping-tomorrow...

seen in #bristol #designfutures ... @willsh.bsky.social because I literally do.. #travels #summer 😀

Hello Everybody Podcast, With Darwin Muljono - Harmonic Design David J. Staley is Associate Professor of History and (by courtesy) Design at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Alternative Universities:

How can futures thinking reshape service design?
Historian and futurist Dr. David Staley joins Darwin Muljono to discuss design, uncertainty, and long-term vision.
🎧 Listen now: thisisharmonic.com/hello-everyb...

#DesignFutures #ServiceDesign #Podcast

How Strategic Foresight Can Drive Innovation Breakthroughs - DFFRNT Innovation can’t rely on guesswork. Strategic foresight equips organizations with tools to anticipate change, uncover bold ideas, and turn future thinking into meaningful action.

Strategic foresight is emerging as a must-have capability—not to predict the future, but to shape it actively.

🔗 Read our latest blog to learn more about it: dffrnt.ca/how-strategi...

#StrategicForesight #DesignFutures #InnovationLeadership #InnovationDay

practice and constructs this liminal space. #designfutures #designthinking #protopia #transformativefutures #foresight @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

Communications for the climate emergency | Content Rising In-person gathering aimed at environmental creatives and content-producers, with inspiring talks, hands-on sessions and memorable storytelling from inspirational people. Our gathering takes place on 1...

#ecologicalcitizens are attending @contentrising.bsky.social on the 12th June if you want to #connect #design @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #designfutures #wakehurst #kew #kewgardens #milleniumseedbank or if we can connect you to our pjects ecologicalcitizens.co.uk or partners contentrising.co.uk

Preview of Dark Mirror S8 just dropped! 😳🥴😐 #SciFi2Fact #DesignEthics #Biometrics #DataPrivacy #DesignFutures

Join us @imaginationlanc.bsky.social in October for our #Masters #MA #DesignFutures course. Learn to #changetheworlds via #Design

www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Lets design #healthy #inclusive #sustainable #technological #ludic worlds together

There's plenty more from where these came from..

Denise Bianco. See how they utilize the #futurestriangle and #designthinking to present aspirational #visions of the #future that emerge from a process of #reimagination of #womenshealth and #genderequality. #futuresthinking #Designfutures #futures @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to share that Boris Kochan - GRANSHAN Chairman, designer, and one of Germany’s leading voices in design policy—will be on stage at DIVE’25 in Munich!

#DIVE25 #GRANSHAN #BorisKochan #DesignDialogue #DesignFutures

A Hesitant Futurist’s Reflections on Feminist Design Beyond Binaries * Journal of Futures Studies Reflecting on the arguments made in The Hesitant Feminist’s Guide to the Future (Milojević, 2024) and drawing on feminist approaches to temporality, this article explores whether/how design futures ca...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... Reflecting on Ivana Milojević's 'Hesitant Feminist's Guide to the Future', how can #designfutures move beyond reproducing the binary systems of thinking that are central to #social and #environmentaljustice? Explore some possibilities with Sarah Elsie Baker in defining

processes such as hope and #empowerment, utilizing #CausalLayeredAnalysis and #speculativedesign to explore alternative #futures. #designfutures #futureisfemale @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Three Future Frames An intuitive framework for design futures Three Future Frames is a model, workshop format and teaching tool I developed to help people actively and easily

I was asked recently where someone should link to for ‘Three Future Frames’, a framework I put together last year for teaching design futures - so I’ve made a page for it you can find here:

smithery.com/three-future...

#futures #foresight #designfutures

John V Willshire

John V Willshire & Dr Rob Phillips

Dr Rob Phillips

Participants working in a Futures Through Design framework

Delighted to be launching the Futures Through Design, a three-day Exec Ed course, with the Royal College of Art this July in collaboration with my good friend @robdphillips.bsky.social

www.rca.ac.uk/study/progra...

All resharing for reach much appreciated.

#futures #designfutures #foresight

Fantastic Day with #designfutures #MDes #RoyalCollegeofArt working with the #helenhamylncentre. Thank you #Chris McGinley, #beatricesangster, @willsh.bsky.social , #CarlaAmaral & #EliseHodson #brilliant day trialling #prototyping #making and some good #smiles #research led #teaching #workshop

Awesome students sharing their #collections today on #designfutures @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #natureconnectedness #ecologicalcitizens

From the twitter archives - posted on Sep 24, 2015:

FARM 432 by Katharina Unger
Demystifying eating insects. #ActOnClimate #designfutures

katharinaunger.com/

PRODUCT DESIGN CONCEPTS

Somewhere between 2d & 3d. Sneaker concept inspired by corals and fish scales.
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#Designstudio
#ProductDesign
#FootwearDesign
#FootwearInnovation
#DesignFutures
#Midjourney
#CreativeDirection
#MaterialInnovation

To the #game #seriousgames #boardgames #tabletopgames communities in here!

Can someone point me towards potential funding for a game I've been designing?

It's a #designfutures game to guide participants in designing preferable futures going through a meta #foresight process.

Thanks a lot ✌️

Great to be back in our Design teaching/research lab @imaginationlanc.bsky.social this week and introducing our MA Design Management studes to #DesignFutures.

Some fab #speculativeprototyping emerging.

Looking forward teaching more DF on our new MA -
www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Glimpse of my fictionalized book cover for a project with Matriarchal Design Futures #graphicdesign #designfutures