CHRIS JACKSON - WORKSHOP FOR DESIGN TEAMS
Help your design team see what their current way of working can’t handle.
Your team is excellent at delivery. This workshop builds what comes next: the capacity to anticipate change, not just respond to it.
Duration
2-Hours
Format
In-person or online
Group size
5-20 people
Experience
No prior Foresight experience needed
Topics
Ready to go or created with you
THE PROBLEM
Most design teams are highly effective at delivery. But as expectations shift, a different constraint starts to show up.
Not a lack of skill, but a limit in how the team thinks about change, uncertainty, and long-term direction.
Designers are trained to solve the problem in front of them. But increasingly, they’re being asked to contribute to problems that aren’t fully defined yet.
Strategy. Direction. Anticipation.
Without a shared way of thinking about the future, those conversations stay abstract, or don’t happen at all.
This workshop makes that gap visible.
WHAT YOU GET
Practical futures thinking in two hours.
Your team will leave with visibility, shared perspective, and new ways of framing the challenges ahead.
Your team leaves with a shared way of exploring possible futures
New perspectives on how change might impact your current work
A clearer sense of where existing ways of working may fall short
A practical starting point for bringing futures thinking into everyday design practice
For many teams, this workshop becomes the first time underlying assumptions about how the team operates are surfaced and discussed explicitly.
WHAT FUTURES WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS SAY
In their words.
“It was such an engaging and inspiring workshop.
It really forced me to think deeply, question my perspective and imagine the future in a completely different way to normal — which was really refreshing.”
“The feedback for this workshop was resoundingly positive from both students and staff involved.
The outcomes were genuinely transformative for many participants in their approach to design practice, and it was repeatedly referenced by the student cohort as one of the most valuable learning experiences of their entire year.”
“Coming from a background of design innovation it was great to stretch the mind, learn, and uncover new ways of futures thinking.
We are currently planning on using some of these methods with our team to keep up the practice.”
IS THIS FOR YOUR TEAM?
The right fit if:
you're curious about strategic foresight but haven't had the right opportunity to explore it
you want to expand your team's creativity and innovation with new strategic tools
you're building long-term strategic capability in your design team or organisation
you want a team session that's as practical as it is thought-provoking
you're interested in where Design Futures and Speculative Design fit into your practice.
About Chris.
“I’m a Design Futurist and Strategic Design Leader based in Wellington, New Zealand. I’ve been practising and teaching futures thinking for over 15 years, always in service of real design outcomes rather than as a standalone academic discipline.
I’m a certified IFTF Strategic Foresight Practitioner and have run futures thinking sessions for design teams across government, financial services, technology, and education, in NZ and internationally.”
Ready to book your workshop?
Unsure if this is the right entry point for your team, or whether a diagnostic would be more useful. If you want a quick start, I’ll work with you to unpack your Design Team Health Check and identify where you can make an immediate difference to your team.
Not quite ready for a workshop? Download the Futures of Design 2045 Scenarios—a free resource for design leaders thinking about what's ahead.
If you prefer, you can send me an email to explore your options.