Patterns of Light and Dark

Imagining futures in the plural gives us the tools to make sense of and adapt to uncertainty. An inclusive, collaborative cross-disciplinary approach can make those desirable futures more meaningful and tangible for more people and helps us prevent and prepare for less desirable ones.

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This book features future scenarios as envisioned by a group of designers, doctors, architects, UX researchers, city planners, academics, and artists. It became clear that it is impossible to explore the futures of designing behaviours in the health, mobility and sustainability spaces without contemplating well-being for the planet and its non-human inhabitants.

Through four immersive workshops, the group imagined, developed and revised a series of possible, preferable and preferable futures for Southern Sweden in 2050. The broader community participated and contributed trends, signals and helped our core contributors explore the assumptions or ethical implications of each future scenario.

The foresight process was funded by Swelife – a strategic innovation programme, funded by the Swedish Government via the Swedish innovation agency, Vinnova.