Envisioning future innovative experimental ecosystems through the foresight approach. Case: Design Factory
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2017-12-29
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FUTURES RESEARCH, Volume 6, issue 1
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Change makers are visionaries who wish to bring change to their respective fields. As technological change is accelerating, it is relevant to consider, how the way and what we teach can evolve with the future to remain meaningful and pioneering. Design Factory at Aalto University, as an innovative experimental ecosystem with interdisciplinary principles and new teaching methodologies has been successful in and at the forefront in educating the students to be change-makers. The paper presents a case study of holistically anticipating plausible futures for innovative experimental ecosystems utilizing a foresight approach. We analyze how the ways of working, spaces, and teaching methods of one such ecosystem, Design Factory at Aalto University in Finland, could support students learning in the year 20 x 6 {x = 2, 3}. We present the process of drawing virtual lines that connect trends, future drivers, visions, and scenarios using a contemporary approach that fuses qualitative and quantitative methods. The results from the study are six future scenarios for the Design Factory, that have implications for innovation ecosystems in general. These results are expected to further foster or trigger new research and development experiments, directions for building radical environments, new teaching methods and ways of working.Description
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Foresight, Future ways of working, Future problemsolving, Scenarios, Future education, DELPHI
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Munigala, V, Oinonen, P & Ekman, K 2017, ' Envisioning future innovative experimental ecosystems through the foresight approach. Case: Design Factory ', European Journal of Futures Research, vol. 6, no. 1, 1 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s40309-017-0128-2