Welcome to Future ShapersShaping the future of a sustainable world

Gemma Adams, Louise Armstrong, Kester Byass, Charlene Collison

#futureshapers

Forum for the FutureForum for the Future is an independent non-profit

working globally with business, government and other organisations to solve complex sustainability challenges.

Change happens at the basic unit of the citizen

FutureShapers network

Technology shapes how we live

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EU-INNOVATE | Future Shapers Workshop

Time Description

10:00 Introductions and reflections

10:55 Citizen driven innovation

11:40 Break

11:50 Preparing for and stepping into the future

12:45 Lunch

13:15 Exploring the future and how we got there

14:50 Break

15:00 Return to 2014 with insights, reflection

16:00 Close

To get the most out of today:• Keep an open mind

• Scenarios aren’t predictions, but descriptions of plausible alternative futures. You’ll learn more by exploring them and asking “what if?” questions than by ruling out possibilities.

• Be adventurous• The workshop is a place to play with and explore what might

happen in the future. We invite you to dive and experience what it might be like.

• Share in the creative commons• Share insights you are comfortable with giving to others; this is

about collaborative learning and idea creation.

1 | Significant objects

Describe the object you have brought to a partner.

What is it? What does it represent?Identify three key words that describe the

importance of the object.Write the three words on a tag and attach it to

your object.

Citizen driven innovationWe believe citizen innovators have an important part to

play in creating change towards a sustainable future

Ebay | 1995

Airbnb | 2008

Landshare | 2008• Connecting

growers with people with land to share

• Sharing gardening knowledge, recipes, resources online.

BoKlok | 1997• An affordable housing

concept jointly developed by Ikea and Skanska.

• Co-created blocks of flats and terraced houses for low- and middle-income people, involving community design input.

• Maximise small living spaces through smart design and communal recreation areas.

Citizen innovation:• Offer is shaped by citizens / users• Promotes and enables sustainable lifestyles and

behaviour• Can range from small to large• May be driven by corporations or small

entrepreneurs.

The future will look different

2 | Looking around

What citizen innovations are you seeing around you?

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2013

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2012

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2009

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2005

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1998

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1992

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1989

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3 | Looking back

What have been the biggest changes over the last 20 years?

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2015

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2020

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2025

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2030

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Volatile

Uncertain

Complex

Ambiguous

Scenarios• Scenarios are plausible, coherent and

challenging descriptions of possible future worlds.

• They are predictions, not forecasts• Scenarios help us to explore what might happen

in the future, anticipate key uncertainties, be better prepared to mitigate risks and seize opportunities presented by a changing world.

Technology shapes how we live

How we live shapes technology

Collective cultureIndividualistic culture

3Sustainable

Society in Europe

1Sustainable

Society in Europe

2Sustainable

Society in Europe

4Sustainable

Society in Europe

2050

Technology shapes how we live

How we live shapes technology

Collective cultureIndividualistic culture

3Sustainable

Society in Europe

1Sustainable

Society in Europe

2Sustainable

Society in Europe

4Sustainable

Society in Europe

2050

now

Technology shapes how we live

Individualistic culture

Technology shapes how we live

Individualistic culture

Four very different worlds… but

• share the same ‘boundaries’ for society• reduce the amount of resources we’re

consuming per person per year toa quarter of what it is today

• Global• Competitive• Data driven and

personalised• Status through

learning

• Wikidecomcracy• Peer Networks• Collaborative interest

groups• Digital, virtual living• Open data, open source

• Local loops framework encouraged by EU

• The Guild Economy• Sharing and

collaboration between regions

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• Absence of global financial and political systems

• Empathy guides everything• Community based• Scarcity

4 | Travelling forwards

Explore pathways to each of the four sustainable worlds in 2050

Which world are you most curious to find out about?

Stand next to the gift box you most want to open

4 | Travelling forwards

Share your initial thoughts on what attracted you to this world.

How is it different to today?Consider whether the three key words that

matter to you exist in that scenario – and how you feel about that.

5 | In 2050

1. What would be your hopes and fears if you lived in this world?

2. What sort of lifestyle would you have?3. Where do innovations come from in this

world?

6 | Travelling back

Along the way, you meet someone who is a citizen innovator.

Who are they? What are they doing? What are their motivations, ambitions and

challenges?

Technology shapes how we live

How we live shapes technology

Collective cultureIndividualistic culture

3Sustainable

Society in Europe

1Sustainable

Society in Europe

2Sustainable

Society in Europe

4Sustainable

Society in Europe

2050

now

7| Reflection

What would this future citizen say to you as a citizen innovator today?

8| Group sharing

Introduce your character to another group?

How are the similar to us? How are they different?

Capture them on the template provided

How do you want to support each other?

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Thank youEU-Innovate and Future Shapers Network

Gemma Adams, Louise Armstrong, Charlene Collison

Extra slides

To use or refer to as needed

“The future is already here; it’s just not evenly

distributed.” William Gibson

John M. Richardson, Jr.

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people:

those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and

those who wonder what happened.”