Doing Futures: Local Workshops
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Overview
A masterclass is a learning experience where emerging practitioners step into the room with a master of their craft—not just to absorb theory, but to witness mastery in action and refine their own skills through direct, high-level feedback. This Transformative Innovation Masterclass follows that tradition, bringing together entrepreneurs and professionals who are ready to put the final touch on their future-focused ideas.
Unlike a typical innovation workshop, this masterclass is not about starting from zero or brainstorming possibilities. Participants arrive with a developed idea, vision, or early concept shaped by futures thinking. The role of the masterclass is to elevate that idea to a higher level of clarity, precision, and impact, under the guidance of an expert in futures-led innovation.
In practice, this means each participant shares their work-in-progress concept, receiving real-time critique, strategic foresight insights, and reframing techniques. The master challenges assumptions, illuminates overlooked opportunities, and demonstrates advanced methods for shaping ideas that can thrive in uncertain, rapidly evolving contexts. Other participants gain just as much by observing this process—learning not only from their own session but from the master’s interaction with peers.
The goal is not simply to teach but to demonstrate innovation craftsmanship at its highest level: how foresight can be transformed into robust, actionable, and compelling ventures. By the end, participants leave with sharper ideas, a stronger narrative, and a heightened sense of what “radical innovation” truly means.
Time and Dates
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Specifications
- English
- Documentation
Audience
Inspired by learning modes in the musical arts, master classes serve gifted and experienced practioners in furthering their existing base of practical knowledge. This transdisciplinary format brings together entrepeneurs, scientists, designers, educators, and technologists with futures practitioners, systems thinkers, and speculative designers. Ideally, participants arrive with prior practical exposure, agnostic of the discipline, and intense intellectual curiousity in order to equally contribute and receive most out of this learning format. In order to achieve a high standard of study, learners will need to feel comfortable with reading texts, and minimal individual preperatory works prior to the session. This not only increases the quality of, and time-spent in, the masterclass itself – it also makes this format more accessible to other participants.
Bonus
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
Downloads
- Syllabus (pdf)
Work with peers and deliver the final touch that distinguishes your strategy from good to great.
Explore what the class has
to offer and learn about the capabilities you'll gain.
Beyond Silicon Valley
Long coveted as the standard at which world-changing innovation is measured against, the Silicon Valley mode of tech entrepreneurship not just fails society, it threatens planetary capacities. With its monopolising tendencies, Silicon Valley’s big tech firms privatise and manufacture futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming.
- Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical Futures
Uncoding Discourses
Explore how Gigatrends, changes of transformational magnitude, don’t just challenge existing systems, but also give rise to entirely new societal paradigms. Learn to distinguish between shallow hypes and tectonic shifts and map interconnected events to reveal their underlying dynamics.
- GigatrendsHorizon ScanningSocial Wavefront Mapping
Radical Futurities
Ask: ‘What if?’ as you converge systemic shifts as seeds of alternative lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Map constraints, resistance and contengencies that influence change dynamics over time. Detail the conditions of tomorrow’s daily life and co-author, vivid yet provoking narratives and unearth emerging aspirations, needs and problems that might frame future human experiences.
- Actor MappingFutures WheelScenario Design
Futures Architecture
Visualise tomorrow’s human experiences: Co-author vivid and provoking narratives to unearth emerging aspirations, new behaviors or underserved needs. Foster your thinking on new problems or sources for conflicts that may arise. Learn to get a feel for potential solutions to address these gaps through future products, transformational experiences or imaginative solutions.
- Future PersonaFuturegramVisiontyping
Disruption by Design
Breaking with the Status Quo isn’t radical sentiment: it’s an calculated design choice. In this module, you’ll learn what creates transformational innovations that are positioned to win. Learn how, by analysing economic incentives and path dependencies, to trap incumbents in strategic dilemmas – and create undisturbed opportunity spaces to innovate freely.
- Theory of Disruptive InnovationThree Horizons FrameworkValue Curve Modelling
Beyond Silicon Valley
Long coveted as the standard at which world-changing innovation is measured against, the Silicon Valley mode of tech entrepreneurship not just fails society, it threatens planetary capacities. With its monopolising tendencies, Silicon Valley’s big tech firms privatise and manufacture futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming.
Long coveted as the standard at which world-changing innovation is measured against, the Silicon Valley mode of tech entrepreneurship not just fails society, it threatens planetary capacities. With its monopolising tendencies, Silicon Valley’s big tech firms privatise and manufacture futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming.
- Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical Futures
Uncoding Discourses
Explore how Gigatrends, changes of transformational magnitude, don’t just challenge existing systems, but also give rise to entirely new societal paradigms. Learn to distinguish between shallow hypes and tectonic shifts and map interconnected events to reveal their underlying dynamics.
Explore how Gigatrends, changes of transformational magnitude, don’t just challenge existing systems, but also give rise to entirely new societal paradigms. Learn to distinguish between shallow hypes and tectonic shifts and map interconnected events to reveal their underlying dynamics.
- GigatrendsHorizon ScanningSocial Wavefront Mapping
Radical Futurities
Ask: ‘What if?’ as you converge systemic shifts as seeds of alternative lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Map constraints, resistance and contengencies that influence change dynamics over time. Detail the conditions of tomorrow’s daily life and co-author, vivid yet provoking narratives and unearth emerging aspirations, needs and problems that might frame future human experiences.
Ask: ‘What if?’ as you converge systemic shifts as seeds of alternative lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Map constraints, resistance and contengencies that influence change dynamics over time. Detail the conditions of tomorrow’s daily life and co-author, vivid yet provoking narratives and unearth emerging aspirations, needs and problems that might frame future human experiences.
- Actor MappingFutures WheelScenario Design
Futures Architecture
Visualise tomorrow’s human experiences: Co-author vivid and provoking narratives to unearth emerging aspirations, new behaviors or underserved needs. Foster your thinking on new problems or sources for conflicts that may arise. Learn to get a feel for potential solutions to address these gaps through future products, transformational experiences or imaginative solutions.
- Future PersonaFuturegramVisiontyping
Disruption by Design
Breaking with the Status Quo isn’t radical sentiment: it’s an calculated design choice. In this module, you’ll learn what creates transformational innovations that are positioned to win. Learn how, by analysing economic incentives and path dependencies, to trap incumbents in strategic dilemmas – and create undisturbed opportunity spaces to innovate freely.
- Theory of Disruptive InnovationThree Horizons FrameworkValue Curve Modelling
About our participants
Students arrive with one mandate: Drive societal transformation through innovation. Our learning experiences help them do that.
Format
'Inspired by arts education,
masterclasses iniate learners into advanced practices through expert instruction, intensity, and social learning.'
Social Learning
Each workshop is unique: As a participant you set, and shape your learning objectives within safe, peer-driven spaces.
Small Groups
To maintain a high standard, we limit workshop partication to maximum 15 people to convey commitment to rigour.
Personal Instruction
Your teachers are there to help you build momentum and get started implementing what learn in a real-world environments.
Intensity
Learn how to apply futures on-task by studying cases, building robust theoretical fundamentals and applying intellectual rigour to a further your repertoire of entrepreneurial and innovation methods.
Private Study
Augment your social learning experiences with additional resources and papers for free.
William Chitangala works as a futurist, fusing a decade of practice in emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and design research to discover, and deploy alternative modes of innovation that transform societies from within.
William Chitangala is a futurist with a fusing his backgrounds in technology, design research and entrepreneurship to discover, develop and deploy alternative modes of building new ventures that transform societies from within.
Time and Dates
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Specifications
- English
- Documentation
Audience
Inspired by learning modes in the musical arts, master classes serve gifted and experienced practioners in furthering their existing base of practical knowledge. This transdisciplinary format brings together entrepeneurs, scientists, designers, educators, and technologists with futures practitioners, systems thinkers, and speculative designers.
Ideally, participants arrive with prior practical exposure, agnostic of the discipline, and intense intellectual curiousity in order to equally contribute and receive most out of this learning format.
In order to achieve a high standard of study, learners will need to feel comfortable with reading texts, and minimal individual preperatory works prior to the session. This not only increases the quality of, and time-spent in, the masterclass itself – it also makes this format more accessible to other participants.
Bonus
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
Downloads
- Syllabus
Logistics
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Details
- English
- Documentation
Bonus Material
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
Some useful resources
that prepare, enhance and augment your workshop experience.
Some useful resources
that prepare, enhance and augment your workshop experience.
Q: Who is this workshop for?
So far we've welcomed a highly diverse set of people, all united by the prime task to drive societal transformation.
Prior participants include design thinkers, angel investors, UX professionals, sustainable business experts, product innovation managers, marine biologists, software developers, social activists, urban developers, academic researchers, policymakers, technology entrepreneurs – and also classical music pedagogues.
They've all attended with the aim to raise their current expertise with 'futures literacy' for the purposes of applying futures in their fields.
We also recommend this format if you are transitioning careers. We're glad to offer you financial support – you can apply the 'Low Income' ticket by applying teachone50.
Q: Can I join with my team?
Do you want to attend with +3 people from your team or organisation? Reach out at workshops -at- chitangala.io and we'll offer you a group discount.
Q: Do I need to have any prior experience in foresight or futures?
Q: How do you differ from other foresight and futures thinking courses?
Q: Will I get access to the tools and resources from the workshop?
Q: How can I apply for a 'Low Income' ticket?
These are issued on a trust basis using the discount code teachone50 at the checkout page. Please decide carefully for yourself if you wish to apply this discount to keep access open to fellow-innovators in need.
Q: Will I get an official certificate?
Q: What is your refunds policy?
Because of this pre-work, we have developed a refund framework that is fair to you, the other participants, and the educators preparing the session. The first 7 days of your booking? You'll receive a full refund.
Cancelling up to 2 weeks before the event? You'll receive a 50% refund.
Cancelling 2 days before the event? Sorry, no take-backs.
Q: Who can I contact for support?
Support
Q: Who is this workshop for?
Prior participants include business owners, design thinkers, angel investors, UX professionals, sustainable business experts, product innovation managers, marine biologists, software developers, social activists, urban developers, academic researchers, policymakers, technology entrepreneurs – and also classical music pedagogues.
They've all attended with the aim to raise their current expertise with 'futures literacy' for the purposes of applying futures in their fields.
We also recommend this format if you are transitioning careers. We're glad to offer you financial support – you can apply the 'Low Income' ticket by applying teachone50.
Q: Can I join with my team?
Do you want to attend with +3 people from your team or organisation? Reach out at workshops -at- chitangala.io and we'll offer you a group discount.
Q: Do I need to have any prior experience in foresight or futures?
Q: How do you differ from other foresight and futures thinking courses?
Q: Will I get access to the tools and resources from the workshop?
Q: How can I apply for a 'Low Income' ticket?
These are issued on a trust basis using the discount code teachone50 at the checkout page. Please decide carefully for yourself if you wish to apply this discount to keep access open to fellow-innovators in need.
Q: Will I get an official certificate?
Q: What is your refunds policy?
Cancelling up to 2 weeks before the event? You'll receive a 50% refund.
Cancelling 2 days before the event? Sorry, no take-backs.