Straight from our brains.
The futures sure feel complicated, but they don’t have to be.
How to Analyze Trends
Curious as to how best to analyze trends for more effective foresight-driven innovation? We’ve create this short guide to get you started with the foundations of trend analysis. From context setting to speculation, it’s all in here (with bonus one-pager to download and use).
FUT(-)ILE: Avenear’s Design Futures Framework
An overview of Avenear’s FUT(-)ILE framework for designing products and solutions for the future. It hybridizes methods from design thinking, strategic foresight, and design making to bring the futures to life through tangible artifacts and immersive experiences. Learn how to use this methodology for your own innovation project.
Futures Bingo
Watching sci-fi and future-themed movies is especially important as we’re influenced by what we see in these movies, but how many of the futures we’re shown are predictable versus unexpected? We’ve got two bingo cards to help you think critically about the futures you’re viewing. Print them out and fill them in the next time you watch a future-themed movie!
Futures Menagerie
A look at the menagerie of postnormal potentialities: the Black Elephant, Swan, Jellyfish with the addition of the Grey Rhino.