Inclusive Design and Frugal Design

Presenter: Daniel Ura

• 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