IO3: Design Futures Scouting

In this part of the project, scouting has been taken up as a means to develop alternative presents that can grow into scalable emergent futures. This we have done within a Master’s in Design for Emerging Futures (IAAC-Elisava) in which exploring pedagogies and practices of design futures literacies has been central. The following sections propose novel design education methodologies that can give actual agency to professionals and students seeking to engage in these current crises, turning the envisioning of possible futures into a real exercise of actively modifying the present through the power of making with others.