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Navigating the Next with Resilience: Global Portfolio Strategy in a World of Uncertainty
Apparel & footwear (A&F) give us social identity, protection and a means of self-expression. But in a pandemic these ways of thinking about clothing are essentially pointless. When the world shuts down...
Little Dramas Everywhere: Using Ethnography to Anticipate the Future
In this article, the chairs of EPIC2021 reflect on the idea of Anticipation, and what ethnography reveals to us that may not be readily apparent through other means. Looking backward at the year of planning a conference that was to be focused on the future, the authors describe various revelations...
Future Frictions: Social Complexity in the ‘Blue Skies’ of Innovation
Innovation is often conceptualized as taking place in ‘open space’, as though the work starts from a tabula rasa...
Anticipation for Grand Challenges: An Ethnographic Study of Future-Making Practices in a Technology Company
Visions that highlight new technological capabilities often depict frictionless futures in which data,...
Tutorial: Using Ethnofutures to Build Resilience
Pre-session Homework This video was created to watch prior to the main tutorial video. You can also review the additional resources below to go deeper! https://youtu.be/wfmoJ4VmMVk Download Article: Future Readiness Playbook...
Fluidity and Friction: An Experiment in Ethnographic Foresight
Ethnography can be a divining rod for the future. Though speculative, the study of cultural signals to seed...
Career Pivots: Strategy & Foresight Consulting
Presenters Rebekah Park is a Partner at Gemic, where she co-leads the Tech and Health practices. Over two decades...
How New is the New? Reflecting on How to Design for Tomorrow through the Case of Autonomous Vehicles
An EPIC2021 Sponsored Panel by Waymo How do we anticipate the futures of the things we are bringing into the world, and the experiences they will help shape? The autonomous vehicle is posited as a net-new innovation. Never before have vehicles without human drivers at the helm roamed the same...
Forecasting Friction: Ethnofutures Techniques for Creative Scenarios and Strategic Decisions
https://player.vimeo.com/video/897551968?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 Materials & Resources: Presentation Deck Forecasting Basics, Signals, and Drivers (video) Future Skills Map (Report) Future...