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Blending Design Thinking and Design Futures: Facing the Complexity of Uncertain Futures

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Due to the increasing complexity that comes from exponential technological development, this paper highlights Design Thinking shortcomings when confronted with multiple, non-linear, tangled futures. The methods of Futures Thinking and Design Future, by their nature, deal with those futures and their declinations. By analysing these three methodologies, similarities and differences were emphasized. This paper aims to bring these disciplines together in order to reach a futures-ready Design Thinking that maintains its ties with the present day within the tangible realm, to avoid severing its connection with user needs.

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  1. Design Department, IDEActivity Center, Politecnico di Milano, Via Durando 38/A, 20158, Milan, Italy

    Maria Rita Canina, Laura Anselmi, Carmen Bruno, Chiara Parise & Davide Minighin

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  2. Department IELM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke

  3. School of Arts and Social Science, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Amic G. Ho

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Canina, M.R., Anselmi, L., Bruno, C., Parise, C., Minighin, D. (2021). Blending Design Thinking and Design Futures: Facing the Complexity of Uncertain Futures. In: Markopoulos, E., Goonetilleke, R.S., Ho, A.G., Luximon, Y. (eds) Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80094-9_4

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