Doing Futures: Local Workshops
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Doing Futures: Local Workshops
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Work with peers and deliver the final touch that distinguishes your strategy from good to great.
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 hallmark of world-changing innovation, Silicon Valley’s mode of technology entrepreneurship doesn’t just fail society; it is coerces democracies, threatens humanity and devours nature. With its monopolising tendencies, Big Tech privatises the manufacturering, and advertising of futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming. It’s on time to challenge that.
- Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical Futures
Tracing Gigatrends
Explore Gigatrends: Changes of transformational magnitude. Not only do they challenge existing societal paradigms, but also give rise to entirely new ones. This module teaches you to distinguish between shallow hypes and truly tectonic shifts and provides you with techniques to relate surface-level events with deeper dynamics and map out patterns of change.
- GigatrendsHorizon ScanningSocial Wavefront Mapping
Imagining Future Lifeworlds
Asking ‘What if…?’ converges the prism of systemic shifts into a plethora of future lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Learn to map constraints and resistance, disconinuities and contengencies over time. Learn to ideate and define alternative lived environments to unearth emerging aspirations, novel needs and also problems that shape humanity’s future experiences.
- Actor MappingFutures WheelScenario Design
Speculative Design
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
Delivering Opportunity
Learn how to deliver futures into the real world: Create, curate and evaluate your portoflio of futures-driven innovation partnerships, probes and projects that set the stage for venture building. Get to know two new types of organisations that drive societal transformations: ecosystems and collectives. Discover also avenues for starting a community-based practice that embeds futures at the grassroots.
- Community ProtocolEntrepreneurial EcosystemsOpportunity Management
Explore what the class has
to offer and learn about the capabilities you'll gain.
Beyond Silicon Valley
Long coveted as the hallmark of world-changing innovation, Silicon Valley’s mode of technology entrepreneurship doesn’t just fail society; it is coerces democracies, threatens humanity and devours nature. With its monopolising tendencies, Big Tech privatises the manufacturering, and advertising of futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming. It’s on time to challenge that.
- Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical Futures
Tracing Gigatrends
Explore Gigatrends: Changes of transformational magnitude. Not only do they challenge existing societal paradigms, but also give rise to entirely new ones. This module teaches you to distinguish between shallow hypes and truly tectonic shifts and provides you with techniques to relate surface-level events with deeper dynamics and map out patterns of change.
- GigatrendsHorizon ScanningSocial Wavefront Mapping
Imagining Future Lifeworlds
Asking ‘What if…?’ converges the prism of systemic shifts into a plethora of future lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Learn to map constraints and resistance, disconinuities and contengencies over time. Learn to ideate and define alternative lived environments to unearth emerging aspirations, novel needs and also problems that shape humanity’s future experiences.
- Actor MappingFutures WheelScenario Design
Speculative Design
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
Delivering Opportunity
Learn how to deliver futures into the real world: Create, curate and evaluate your portoflio of futures-driven innovation partnerships, probes and projects that set the stage for venture building. Get to know two new types of organisations that drive societal transformations: ecosystems and collectives. Discover also avenues for starting a community-based practice that embeds futures at the grassroots.
- Community ProtocolEntrepreneurial EcosystemsOpportunity Management
Listen to what other innovators, entrepreneurs and change makers have to share.
William Chitangala is a futurist fusing a decade of
practice in emerging technologies, entrepreneurship
and research to discover, develop 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
Bonus
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
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?
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.