Project overview

 

Designing the Future was a strategic event series focused on exploring emerging trends and speculative futures across diverse domains including sexuality, music industry, death, cannabis, education, food, gender, humans-computers interactions.

 

Each event combined historical analysis, current trend mapping, and future scenario exploration, positioning my venture at the time, Radicalzz Studio as an early voice in future-oriented strategic consultancy and critical design discourse.

 

The series functioned as both a knowledge platform and a strategic tool for demonstrating the studio’s capability to translate complex futures thinking into accessible, engaging and business-relevant experiences.

 

Strategic objectives

 

The project was intentionally designed to support long-term positioning and business development through:

 

Expertise positioning: establishing my company as a thought leader in foresight, trend analysis and speculative design.

 

Community building: creating a curated network of forward-thinking professionals, potential clients and collaborators through shared intellectual and experiential environments.

 

Market differentiation: strengthening my studio’s visibility by addressing unconventional and complex topics through an accessible yet conceptually rigorous format.

 

As the creator and strategic lead, I was responsible for the full lifecycle of the project, including:

☀︎ Leading interdisciplinary research and trend analysis

☀︎ Developing conceptual frameworks and future narratives

☀︎ Designing event formats and workshop methodologies

☀︎ Creating scenario-based presentations

☀︎ Managing partnerships and expert collaborations

☀︎ Coordinating production and logistics

☀︎ Designing audience engagement strategies

☀︎ Overseeing communication and brand positioning

 

Achieved results

 

The series effectively strengthened the market position of Radicalzz Studio as a credible authority in future-oriented strategy and speculative thinking.

 

Its hybrid format combining knowledge dissemination with participatory experiences attracted clients seeking innovative approaches to complex systemic challenges and long-term planning.

 

The growing diversity of participants and partnership opportunities confirmed the project’s relevance within the strategic design ecosystem.

 

Main reflection

 

What began as a positioning initiative evolved into a sustainable business development platform.

 

The project demonstrated my company’s core strength: translating complexity into clarity and enabling audiences to engage with future-oriented thinking in a way that was both intellectually rigorous and practically applicable.

 

It confirmed that futures literacy, when strategically framed, becomes not only an educational tool but a powerful driver for cultural and business transformation.