Future scenarios & speculative artefacts

We see the future as a space of possibilities. Instead of trying to predict it, we use future scenarios to design and actively shape different futures. Speculative artefacts make these scenarios tangible and invite us to adopt new perspectives.

Future scenarios and speculative artefacts open up dialogues about desirable and challenging developments, promote futures literacy and enable people and organisations to not only manage the digital transformation, but to proactively shape it.

With our approaches, we create space for innovation and help you to remain strategically agile in an uncertain world.

Our services

Scenario workshops

We develop future scenarios to make desirable developments tangible and use backcasting to identify concrete paths to a desirable future.

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Development of speculative artefacts

We design objects and appealing visualisations that make possible future developments tangible and stimulate discussions about desirable futures.

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Your benefit

Strategic foresight: Recognise trends at an early stage and proactively prepare for various future scenarios.

Promote innovation: Use creative impulses to generate new ideas and make your organisation fit for the future.

Participation and commitment: Actively involve employees and stakeholders in the design process and promote a shared understanding of future developments.

Let's shape the future together and prepare your organisation for the challenges ahead. Contact us for a non-binding discussion.

Ramona Sprenger
Ramona Sprenger

Selected case studies

GZA

GZA

Evaluation of the Greater Zurich Area's Development Potential

How will the Greater Zurich Area develop as a location and economically? This question was explored in a workshop using the scenario technique. In the end, various future scenarios for the growth of the GZA were developed.

Expedition Zukunft

Expedition Zukunft

Postcards from the climate-neutral future

Mobility in Switzerland is to be climate-neutral by 2050. But what exactly will that look like? Together with Expedition Zukunft, we have created five possible future scenarios in the form of postcards. This enabled parliamentarians to immerse themselves in possible futures during a policy sprint.

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TA-SWISS

TA-SWISS

Digital futures of democracy

The future must be actively negotiated and shaped - and in a democratic way. For the Foundation for Technology Assessment, the Dezentrum developed three future scenarios for a digital democracy in the year 2050. In a participatory and interdisciplinary process, three short stories were created, each illustrated by a speculative object.

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Shaping Futures worth Living

Shaping Futures worth Living

Experiments with Reduced Working Hours

In the midst of climate and health crises, a shortage of skilled workers and fears of globalisation and digitalisation, Switzerland is facing major challenges. Could fewer working hours be the answer?

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Speculative Reportages

Speculative Reportages

Speculative Reportages

Speculative Reportages, part of Kultur Labor Zürich's Arts for Future project, are fact-based fictions that look at climate policy from the perspective of the year 2050, beyond combustion engine bans and vegan menus. They aim to propose new possibilities for action in the present through future perspectives and to remain capable of acting in the face of the climate crisis.

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no1s1

no1s1

A self-managed house that belongs to no one

New technologies allow us to think differently about property, public space and collective goods. With no1s1 (no one's one), we hand over the management of a house to a blockchain-based smart contract. In this way, no1s1 can decide itself about its use and maintain itself autonomously.

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