Applying PESTLE Analysis to generate supportive fiction for Speculative Design
In this post I will use PESTLE analysis as a method to interpret and envisage the world in which Agi Haines’ speculative design work, Transfigurations, may occupy.
1. Drivers, Trends, and Mega-Trends
This first episode is to introduce concepts of Drivers, Trends, and Mega-trends. These are essential components of Futures Thinking as they have a strong influence on the type of plausible Future being explored.
2. Driver Mapping
In this 2nd episode of 1 Minute Futures Methods we build on the knowledge of Drivers and Trends by describing the use of PESTLE analysis and gaining finer detail research by the use of Relevance Trees. This is called Driver Mapping.
Using Futures Methods in Design Thinking Processes
A short animation introducing the overlap between the 2 systems of innovation of Futures Thinking and Design Thinking.
Designers using Futures Thinking. Superflux Case Study
To shape the future, the use of scenarios, artefacts from the future, and prototyping used as exploratory media and to act as provocations, are prime areas for designers to bring innovative ideas to life.
Futures Thinking – Where are we?
85% of responders want to learn more about Futures Thinking and discover how to apply it in their practice.
Futures Thinking & Design Thinking
In a brief comparison of Futures Thinking and Design Thinking, this post introduces a brief history, the similarities, overlaps and differences between the two systems of problem solving, and the outcomes that each process generally creates.