THE Future Scouting® TOOLKIT
Design possible futures, artefacts, and products
Learn how to design future worlds to bring back future innovations that will challenge and inspire
Future Scouting® is a unique speculative design method introducing newcomers to futuring through designing a tech-based, values-driven product from the future.
Design with core values
Speculative Design took form in the early 1990s as a response by designers to the 1980’s embrace of capitalism. Designers were frustrated by serving a mass-market machine without being allowed a thought beyond form and function, and they began to question their role in consumerism’s impact on the planet.
To maintain the spirit of speculative design’s origins, Future Scouting grounds itself in designing according to core values.
Choose your futures learning
The Future Scouting® ecosystem of learning tools includes the Game, Course, and Book.
Learn from the book
A fun and practical step-by-step guide to designing life-centred, values-driven technology with speculative design
“I just read Future Scouting and it’s on my top 5 recommendations list”
Phil Balagtas — Founder of the Design Futures Initiative
Take the online course
A fun and practical step-by-step guide to designing life-centred, values-driven technology with speculative design
“Useful for spotting concepts/exercises that I can draw on in my everyday design work with clients.”
Mackenzie, Service Designer
Learn AS A TEAM
A game of fast design, the Future Scouting® game combines speculative design with designing for values. You’ll ideate, sketch, and review and sabotage other Scouts in your quest to design the invention that best enables the Key Value.
Play the activity as a team or you can do it on your own.
“Refreshing and thought provoking”
Future Scouting® in action
See innovations created by users of the Future Scouting method!
Design products of the future
A fun and practical step-by-step guide to designing life-centred, values-driven technology with speculative design.
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