Future Scouting

Inside this book lies a multi-future time machine, and by the time you finish reading it, you'll be plucking inventions from many possible futures-but you won't need expert forecasting or complex data analysis skills to do it. Future Scouting is a fun and practical step-by-step guide to speculative design and creating design fiction-thought-provoking prototypes to inspire better tomorrows. Including downloadable worksheets, Future Scouting will show you how to Catch a signal of emerging change Design a future invention Ideate a key scenario Extrude a hero and future world Compile your artefacts into a shareable prototype Drawing on the great work of future studies and speculative design practitioners past and present, Future Scouting combines product design, design thinking, life-centred design, and science fiction into one complete method to get you saving the world and back to the present well before the next pandemic!