What We Do.
We develop capabilities to intervene…
We are multidisciplinary practitioners in policy and strategy who help weave caring and thoughtful future ideas and recommendations.
We practise a unique foresight methodology called relational foresight that involves more voices and builds fairer ideas for the future. We believe foresight can be used to plan for and develop better long term futures in a caring and inclusive way.
How We Work.
We give people confidence to do work sensitively with complexity…
Futures projects at Careful Industries employ unique methodologies to bring people together across sectors, themes and regions to create a plurality of ideas about the future.
Our outputs include impactful strategic and policy recommendations which have the potential to transform the present in preparation for better long term futures.
We work with clients to tackle future facing problems, both at a project level and at an organisational level, using both bespoke foresight methods and workshops as well as through advisory outputs.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy
Activities
Mesh.
Careful Industries has developed a bespoke approach to understanding the future called relational foresight. This approach shapes how we research the future and who we involve. Our methods are participatory: they seek to involve a range of lived and learnt experience and we combine this with unique foresight activities to ensure that participants can relate in new ways. This meshing process uncovers a potential plurality of futures.
Design.
We design bespoke participatory and research methods for each client based on their project need and the topic of inquiry. All our workshop and research methods incorporate our relational foresight approach, creating caring and fairer ideas about the future.
Illuminate.
We work with decision makers in government, business, civil society and foundations who face complex strategy, policy, and business questions; our bespoke futures and foresight method allows us to develop innovative and imaginative solutions. We combine our research methodologies to provide impactful recommendations and useful outputs.
In More Depth
Improving Foresight
The importance of moving beyond “top-down” approaches that entrench traditional forms of power.
Relational Foresight
Why creating connections between plural possibilities is critical for coming to terms uncertainty.
Visualising relational foresight
How do we stop replicating the past when we think about the future?
We offer a Foresight journey.
What is the role of digital rights and campaigning organisations in forecasting the future?
© 2023 Open Society Foundations
This short report seeks to bridge the gap between the theoretical discipline of foresight methodologies and how foresight happens in practice. Written for the Open Society Foundations (OSF) it aims to investigate how digital rights organisations perceive and use foresight, as well as reviewing various approaches to thinking about foresight.