Getting Smart calls themselves solution designers. "We help," they say, "leaders, schools and systems ideate, design and implement innovations for equity."
While they wrote this article for educators, it is relevant to any organization seeking to better understand how to navigate a future that is very different from the past. The authors cite a workshop with the Stanford d.school. In it they worked through a variety of exercises that followed a new framework of five approaches for encountering uncertainty like a futurist. They are: Worldbuilding, Trace Change Over Time, Seek Visions of Coexistence, Seeing in Multiples, and Empathy for the Future.
As the d.school says, "the future isn’t up to someone else. It’s up to us. All of us."
Article: The Time For Futures Is Now
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