Client
Global foresight community.
Originated at Dubai Future Forum 2025.
Services
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Strategic foresight facilitation
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Community practice design
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Open-source methodology development
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Design-led research
Deck of Disruptions
Question
What changes when foresight is no longer something we facilitate for others, but something we practice in our own lives?
Method
Deck of Disruptions is a community-facing foresight practice designed to help practitioners apply futures thinking beyond professional settings. The work originated as a facilitated workshop titled Radical Change Waves, first developed at the Dubai Future Forum in 2025. What began as a single session quickly surfaced a broader pattern within the field and evolved into an ongoing, open practice.
The method invites participants to build a personal deck of disruption cards across six categories, adapted from the Futures Cone and expanded to reflect lived experience over time. The six categories include previous, past, persistent, probable, plausible, and possible disruptions.
Rather than resolving uncertainty through idealized future scenarios, the practice focuses on response. Participants imagine themselves 12 to 15 years into the future and reflect on how they act with intention amid layered disruptions. The activity is designed to be revisited over time, used independently or facilitated in community settings, and adapted across contexts.
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Disruption categories adapted from the Futures Cone.
40+
Foresight practitioners engaged through initial and ongoing sessions
100%
Open-source materials available for independent and facilitated use.
Results
What emerged
A repeatable foresight practice anchored in a tangible artifact that practitioners can return to as life and circumstances change.
What shifted
Foresight practitioners to experience futures thinking as a lived practice, not only as a facilitation method for others.
How might we identify potential consumer preferences in 2050 using community-driven design processes?
Bigwidesky, a communication and foresight consultancy, wanted to help their community explore speculative design as a tool for strategic foresight. We collaborated on a five-month engagement to host a community-driven, three-part interactive webinar series focused on futures literacy and speculative design. The series introduced Bigwidesky’s five-step foresight process—probleming, researching, imagining, gathering insights, and strategizing—while guiding participants in co-designing artifacts and products from 2050. Deliverables included speculative design artifacts, narratives, and a takeaway futures starter kit.
Between sessions, our team conducted sociocultural research to refine the community’s speculative concepts, ultimately producing the Human+ 2050 product catalog featuring three finalized, future-forward artifacts. Visual renders and narratives brought these artifacts to life, immersing participants in a plausible 2050 future and demonstrating how speculative design can inform business strategy. This project exemplified participatory futures literacy, with each artifact grounded in sociocultural signals of change and shaped by the collective imagination of Bigwidesky’s community.