Reinventing the Wheel : The Future Ripples Method for Activating Anticipatory Capacities in Innovation Teams

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2022-06-13

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en

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387-399

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Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22)

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Global and systemic sustainability challenges increasingly require innovation teams to incorporate holistic, long-term thinking into their ideation. Since a comprehensive foresight process would prove too burdensome, faster methods are needed. The Future Ripples method was devised to meet this need through reflective practice in four consecutive workshops. It builds on the well-known Futures Wheel foresight method, which offers a collaborative process for brainstorming consequences and impacts. Additionally, the new approach encompasses scanning for weak signals and trends while catering to innovation teams. Analysis of the workshop activities and outcomes suggests that the Future Ripples method can nurture the anticipation skills of innovation teams and help them develop diverse, novel, yet plausible futures. The paper also discusses the role of reflection, metaphors, and the balance between critical and creative thinking in developing holistic futures.

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Epp, F A, Moesgen, T, Salovaara, A, Pouta, E & Gaziulusoy, I 2022, Reinventing the Wheel : The Future Ripples Method for Activating Anticipatory Capacities in Innovation Teams . in F F Mueller, S Greuter, R A Khot, P Sweetser & M Obrist (eds), DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference : Digital Wellbeing . ACM, pp. 387-399, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Virtual, Online, 13/06/2022 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3534570