The programme, in full
Every stage starts from what's real today and builds towards 2040.
Every format runs on the same four ways of thinking and ends with participants presenting something real.
Programme pathway
From today to 2040 and back, in eight stops.
1Jump forwardFutures thinking
- 01Name today's problemsClimate, civic and social, without softening them.
- 02Build scenariosThemed teams imagine plausible versions of 2040.
- 03Live in 2040Sketch it, write it and stage it until it feels real.
2Look backSystems thinking
- 04Ask what it tookEach thing that 2040 needed becomes a What If question.
- 05Map the systemResearch, precedent and the levers that move it.
3BuildDesign and business thinking
- 06PrototypeA rough, testable version of the strongest idea.
- 07Model itSocial, environmental and financial returns, and a roadmap.
★ShowThe exhibition
- 08ExhibitTeams present to people who can take the work further.
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I shape each programme around your group and can bring in founders and leaders from sustainability and green tech.
From the sessions
What a cohort makes.
Illustrations of the kind of work a cohort makes, tagged with the stop it comes from.
Formats
Three ways to run it.
Half-day
Half a dayJumpLook backBuildShow
- Jump to an optimistic 2040
- Name the ventures it needs
- Shape one on the green business model canvas
Works as a class session, a leadership team meeting or a club meeting.
One day
A full dayJumpLook backBuildShow
- Jump into the group's own place in 2040
- Draw, build and stage it
- Turn it into What If questions
- Shape solutions around the strongest one
- Exhibit at the end of the day
Works as a campus workshop, a team offsite or a community visioning day.
Multi-session
5 sessionsJumpLook backBuildShow
- FFutures: the problem and a 2040 scenario
- SSystems: the levers worth pushing
- DDesign: ideas and a rough prototype
- BBusiness: a model that weighs all three returns
- ★The exhibition
Teams work between sessions. Works as a semester module, an innovation sprint or a project incubator for a club or ward.