Inclusive Design and Frugal Design

Description

Presenter: Daniel Ura

Notes

• What is Strategic Foresight?
  • Futures thinking helps to understand and organize situations, environments and problems
  • Laws of the Future:
    • Future cannot be predicted because it does not exist
      • Alternative futures can and should be forecast
      • Preferred futures should be predicted and evaluated
    • Useful ideas about the future should appear to be ridiculous
      • Should seem impossible and then becomes familiar and the normal
      • What is considered "likely" is the least likely futures
      • If futurists expect to be useful they should be ridiculed and ideas initially rejected
    • "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us"
      • Technological change is often the basis of social/environmental change