Futuring Design

Part of the Planetary Dreaming movement 

Futuring Design is a research cluster founded by researchers and design educators at the Royal Danish Academy as a network for sharing knowledge and providing research, artistic and strategic development addressing organizational and societal change. 

As part of this focus, the cluster is particularly dedicated to exploring, developing, and documenting new approaches to facilitate development and change processes within and between organizations, while also gathering knowledge on how these new approaches and forms of collaboration manifest in practice

Within this focus the cluster, we do research into the education and formation of design professionals for the purpose of their becoming active co-creators of a sustainable future by way of innovative, speculative, strategic and entrepreneurial ideation and action. 

Our research is tested and continually developed in dialogue with the bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D.-programs as well as in the Academy’s continuing educational programs for professional designers and architects and the many innovation- and development-oriented companies and organizations who follow our courses.

Our particular focus areas are design methodology, strategic design, collaborative didactics and social transformation, the pivotal points being the powers of design imagination and participation in decision-making, diversity, and value creation in companies and society.