Similarities Between Industrial Design and Futures Work
Where industrial design meets futures thinking—discover the overlap between making things and imagining what comes next.
How to Analyze Trends
Curious how best to analyze trends for foresight-driven innovation? We’ve created a short guide to get you started—from context to speculation, with a handy downloadable worksheet.
FUT(-)ILE: Avenear’s Design Futures Framework
Peek under the hood of our own method: FUT(-)ILE blends design thinking, strategic foresight, and making into a futures-ready workflow you can apply too.
Library | Strategic Foresight
A curated list of our favourite books on strategic foresight, speculative design, and innovation—straight from Avenear’s personal library.
Futures Bingo
Watch sci-fi with a side of critical thinking. Download our bingo cards to track tropes in future-themed movies, from predictably safe to wildly unexpected.
5 Consumer Trends to Consider
Five incoming trends that are shaping the future of products and services—here’s what to watch, why it matters, and what it could mean for design.
Futures Menagerie
A playful taxonomy of futures: Black Elephants, Grey Rhinos, Black Jellyfish, and Black Swans—what they mean, and why they matter for foresight work.
A Glossary of Futures + Design Terms
A glossary of key terms used in design, futures, and innovation work. Learn what Applied Futures are, what Futures Thinking means, as well as what characterizes Design Fictions or Critical Designs.
Looking Back to Better Look Ahead
Sometimes the best way forward is backward. Explore why revisiting the past can unlock deeper imagination and better future visioning.
Futures & Strategic Foresight Podcasts We Love
A list of futures and foresight podcasts to help you stay up to date with the ways technology and innovation are (and will potentially continue) shaping our world.
The Future Now Past
Examining visions of futures that have now come to past. What did past societies believe would be true for the future? We present a curated list of some of the more well known works that have taken a stab at future speculation in the hopes of kick-starting the imagination.
5 Futuristic Industries On Which To Keep An Eye
As technology and society continues to evolve, it’s only natural that new industries will pop-up while others fade away. Here I outline 5 industries that are likely to emerge as “everyday” future industries.
Mother of Invention
A quick review (share out) of Nnedi Okorafor‘s science fiction short story Mother of Invention.