Starting November 6: [Call for Participants] Future Foresight Workshop

Outline

Future foresight is an approach to exploring possible futures and navigating uncertainty in an increasingly volatile and complex world. Originating and gaining popularity primarily in Europe and North America, it is now used in Japan by private companies and public-sector organizations as a methodology for fostering innovation, alongside design thinking.

Rather than simply extrapolating from current trends, future foresight explores multiple possible futures and uses them as a starting point for reexamining the present. This process helps uncover new questions and opportunities. It also requires a willingness to challenge existing assumptions and conventional wisdom and to reframe how we understand problems.

This workshop will introduce Living Futures (Future Foresight × Anthropology), an approach that combines conventional foresight methods with anthropological perspectives and improvisational theater. By observing future societies through an anthropological lens and enacting the lives of people in those futures, participants will explore not only technological and societal changes but also shifts in human values and behavior.

In addition, with the support of Terumo Corporation, a leading medical device manufacturer, participants will receive an overview of the current landscape related to the workshop theme.

Join us for this hands-on learning experience and explore how humanity and society might transform—not simply to predict the future, but to imagine and investigate alternative ways of living.

Facilitators

-Shigeki Matsuki, Minako Sawada
(Senior Consultants, Future Design Lab., Research Consulting Dept., The Japan Research Institute, Limited (JRI)
-Natsuko Higa
(Anthropologist, Co-founder of Meshwork LLC., Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Yamanashi Prefectural University, Board Member of Mitsukaru + Wakaru (General Incorporated Association))

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