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 toCatch a signal of emerging changeDesign a future inventionIdeate a key scenarioExtrude a hero and future worldCompile 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!