Location: Berlin
Format: Elective module for interdisciplinary students in 4 block seminars. The module ran across two consecutive semesters.
Duration: 4 Days
Participants: ~40 students across both terms from diverse study programs, e.g., renewable energy, business communication, fashion design, accounting, applied informatics, etc.
Team: Lena Jacobi
My Role: Co-Concept & Facilitation, Input on Systems Thinking
Our Favourite Future(s) is a workshop-based course module that introduces students to futures thinking, speculative design, and systems thinking as practical tools for navigating uncertainty and complexity. The format guides participants from understanding signals and dynamics in the present to developing visions of desirable (and undesirable) futures—grounded in values and collective reflection.
Team-building for psychological safety and strong group dynamics, short input sessions, hands-on practice with STEEP, Futures Wheel, and systems mapping, values-based dialogue, vision-building, prototyping and making future artefacts.
The workshop format was first shared at the 3rd Systemic Design Symposium and later adapted and taught as an interdisciplinary elective at HTW Berlin.
A wide range of speculative future artefacts, including a future podcast episode, a short play, an ad campaign for an “apple” with a critical design component, and a gamified point-system concept for the HTW mensa to support healthier eating.
Our Favourite Future(s) is a workshop-based course module that introduces students to futures thinking, speculative design, and systems thinking as practical tools for navigating uncertainty and complexity. The format guides participants from understanding signals and dynamics in the present to developing visions of desirable (and undesirable) futures—grounded in values and collective reflection.
