Futures

By Abril Chimal & Lena Tünkers In 2024, the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent was held to address pressing global humanitarian challenges. As part of this important event, we were honored to be among the four winners of the IFRC Solferino Academy Speculative Competition. Our participation in this competition gave

Community is the future of brand-building. Participation is the future of retail.

Download our new report 📚 Exploring the Futures of Technology This report explores the accelerating landscape of emerging technologies and provides a…

Portfolio of Plot Generica, a collaborative creative practice making sounds objects and experiences with an optimistic mindset.

I asked an AI to predict the near future of art and creative work. This is the story it told me.

Check out Animal Futures for yourself and find out what the future could look like for animals, people and our world in 2050.

The Museum of Health Futures is an ongoing initiative to explore the future of health in the WHO Western Pacific Region

Zoom into the future and explore New York City 50 years from now, in a world redesigned to work for both people and the planet.

Tools from collective imagination practitioners around the world, for anyone who wants to explore ways of creating better, more hopeful futures, together.

Exploring Speculative Climate Futures

In August 2020, I moved to Eindhoven, bringing six months of lockdown spent in Delhi to a close. Not sure what to expect coming to the…

Learn more about Bellwether, X's moonshot to reveal the probable futures of the natural and built environment – harnessing AI to democratize and accelerate the ways in which organizations of all kinds interact with data about the physical world.

In September, the Near Future Laboratory conducted a workshop with the Mobile Life Center and Boris Design Studio in Stockholm. Our…

Imagine scenarios for using a social license when an AI agent is introduced in patient-clinician interactions in healthcare.

One of the first New European Bauhaus ‘lighthouse demonstrators’, this consortium encompasses 18 partners in 7 cities and regions across 4 aquatic ecosystems.

Creating fully generative stereoscopic images to help envision the future of D.C.

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illu...

99¢ Futures, 2013 On February 9th, 2013 a pharmacy & 99¢ store on Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn held a "Time-Warp Opening" selling a variety of products...

This website is an effort by the Design Institute for Health in support of the broader FORESIGHT initiative. Its purpose is to transport you into possible, alternate future Scenarios for health and well being.

(Update 28jun22: It was announced today that this project has won at the 02022 Core77 Design Awards  in the Speculative Design category! Ced...

This project interrogates the larger orders of our relationship to death, space, institutions, territories, technologies, and politics. In today’s society, d...

What would Australia look like in 2030 if we simply listened to the needs of its people? Regenerating Australia is the latest release by the team behind the award winning 2040 film.

An ongoing initiative brings together experts and futurists from around the world to consider planetary policy decisions that increase the odds of our survival.

A new immersive and interactive game can help philanthropy develop more flexible strategies, become more adaptive to different trajectories, and prepare for shocks to the system.

The OPTIC project is producing a bilingual comic book that explores the imaginaries of climate change in five locations across south Wales.

R&D's Advisory Team publishes its first foresight report, evaluating future technologies and trends.