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Living Futures: Scenario Kit is a design tool for understanding, discussing, and shaping the future. It consists of four alternative versions of year 2050 explored through narrated stories from future citizens, themed analyses, and other media files, as well as a set of design tools that puts the scenarios to work. The kit can be used to future proof business models, develop new strategy, and understand and discuss important trends and developments in the present.

The kit is flexible and can be useful in these situations:
1) Identify new opportunities - Discovering and mapping new ways forward, developing new concepts and ideas for strategies, products, or services
2) Wind tunnel ideas - Testing hypotheses about the future like strategies or business models
3) Discuss the future - Kickstarting fruitful discussions in a team or with diverse groups of stakeholders

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Can be remixed

Publisher

Danish Design Centre

Discipline or practice

Futures and Foresight

Link to toolkit

https://livingfutures.org

Source files

About this resource

Country/Territory

Denmark

Date Published

2020

License

Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Formats

Web-based resource

Card deck

Interactive canvas

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