Futures Design Lab & Foresight

Fresh updates from our work in strategic foresight and planning—from new projects to methods we’re testing to insights that support innovation and long-term direction.

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3rd Forum without Barriers | Centre for Culture ZAMEK | Accessible Cinema Futures

How to watch a film that hasn’t been made yet? Foresight (for) accessible future(s) cinema (2026)

Carlsberg Polska | Strategic Design

Foresight-to-Strategy: Carlsberg Polska Vision 2035 Pathways (2025)

TransferHub, FISE | A foresight-based innovation for professional development

My Career Path in Futures Scenarios (2026)

Discover our distinctive approach to foresight and strategic planning, helping organizations anticipate change and unlock innovation.

End-to-end strategic foresight: from horizon scanning through scenario building to actionable strategy. We design rigorous, multi-stage processes around your specific challenge — not from a template — so you leave with scenarios you can actually use, strategic options across multiple futures, and the capability to keep updating as conditions change. For organisations navigating deep uncertainty over 5–30 year horizons.

Your strategic radar for an unpredictable world. We run horizon scanning as a daily professional practice — combining human expert intelligence, ethnographic fieldwork, and critical interpretation to surface fresh signals before they become obvious. The result is not another trend list but a dynamic map of patterns, convergences, and early discontinuities, published biweekly in our Emerging Cases series and delivered as tailored intelligence for clients. We transform volatility into anticipatory advantage — and turn signals into prototypes, strategies, and new directions.

Where futures are made, not mapped. We combine design fiction, systemic design, and anthropological fieldwork to create tangible prototypes and immersive experiences from possible worlds — objects, narratives, and simulations that make alternative futures concrete enough to examine, challenge, and shape. This is our most experimental format, drawing on curatorial and artistic traditions most consultancies never touch.

Foresight for leadership teams who feel the ground shifting. Through workshops, decision rehearsals, and futures coaching, we build real capacity to lead under uncertainty — not a one-off inspiration session, but an upgraded practice of strategic thinking. From a 1-day executive intensive to an ongoing advisory relationship, your team learns to spot change early, stress-test strategy, and hold direction without rigidity.

The future begins where trends end. Every two weeks we publish one emerging issue — a first crystallisation of change detected where most scanning never reaches, interpreted by a multidisciplinary team, and translated into material you can act on. Not a trend list. An invitation to see what’s forming before it becomes consensus.

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“Ideas” is a space for testing new concepts and cultivating sustained theoretical reflection on foresight, technology, social questions, and culture. It lives at the intersection of rigorous inquiry and experimental sensibility: a place where methods meet imagination, and where thinking about the future remains both grounded and open-ended.

You will find here a spectrum of formats—ranging from deeper, research-oriented and essayistic texts on emerging tools and approaches to working with futures, to more impressionistic notes: fragments of observations, weak signals, and art signals.

A snapshot of our recent projects and collaborations.

Energy Transition Uncertainties Map

Energy Transition Uncertainties Handbook (2025)

Climate-KIC | Expert Workshops Programme Subcontracted analytical contribution for 4CF

FutureLab: Embedding Foresight in an Analyst Workflow (2025)

Instytut Zachodni | Strategic Foresight Training | Subcontracted training design & facilitation contribution for 4CF

UK / Poland Season 2025 Imagining Future Collaborations

UK/Poland ‘Imagining Future Collaborations Reports’ (2022)

British Council Poland | Cultural Diplomacy