workshops

Parents, caregivers, and educators came together to re-imagine schools for the modern day.

What are the needs of childhood and adulthood? What roles do schools play in the lives of students, caregivers, communities, and our society?

The evening resulted in hopeful What Ifs turned into Future Truths, which groups surrounded with visions of what these futures could look like and feel like in the year 2040.

This workshop for impact-driven brands and businesses spoke to the importance of long-term thinking in implementing their missions and visions. Through the use of problem and vision statements, and backcasting, they practiced creating pathways to guide them towards preferable futures over time.

We collaborated on a series of participatory engagements to help an organization review and revise their mission and vision to align with their shifting values. They especially explored histories and present contexts to inform how they might shift their practices and offerings to better serve their changing community.

This session introduced futuring methods to leadership and administrative staff from colleges and universities to provide them with new tools to better support student populations. We especially focused on envisioning desirable and undesirable futures, and worked backwards to determine steps needed to make preferable futures into reality.

We tested a circular economy initiative using a futuring "wind-tunnel." Through present and hypothetical future contexts, we assessed and considered potential implications, gaps, and adjustments needed prior to the initiative's implementation.