Bridgette Engeler leads a session on critical futures and speculative design. Participants reflect on past imagined futures and use them to critique present systems, developing strategies for more resilient, imaginative, and intentional future-making.
What can we learn from futures that have already been imagined?
How might past foresight effortsused, discarded, or realisedstill shape our understanding of the present, and influence the directions and decisions we now choose to take?
Five years ago, we developed a foresight tool intended to support strategic thinking and long-range planning.
Since then, it has remained largely dormantan artefact of its time.
But futures do not stand still.
They evolve, mature, and sometimes fade.
This workshop will return to that tool, not to simply revive it, but to interrogate it: How has it aged?
What assumptions were embedded within it?
Which signals have since strengthened or disappeared?
And crucially, how might it be renewedor purposefully retiredas we navigate the futures ahead?
By revisiting this tool with fresh perspectives, we invite participants into a conversation about the lifecycle of foresight artefacts: what we create, what we leave behind, and what