TY - JOUR
T1 - Scenarios and design
T2 - Scoping the dialogue space
AU - Selin, Cynthia
AU - Kimbell, Lucy
AU - Ramirez, Rafael
AU - Bhatti, Yasser
N1 - Funding Information:
The Oxford Futures Forum was supported by Saïd Business School, Green-Templeton College and the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives from Arizona State University and benefited from scholarships generously funded by the Global Business Policy Council of AT Kearney. This research has drawn from the notes captured during the event by Ali Naghieh, Alice Redfern, Candy Chan, Debbie Ding, Farzana Dudhwala, Irina Fedorenko, Kiely Flanigan, Muhammad Azeem Faraz, Neena Veeraraghavan, and Saba Riaz. Visual notes by Matthias Augustin.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - This paper examines the intersections between two futures-oriented domains of practice and research: scenario planning and design. Both are practice-led, with uneasy but productive relationships with theorizing. Exploring their relations offers ways to address challenges faced by interdisciplinary management research, which struggles to connect research and practice. The authors describe how they brought the two fields together. We outline how we convened, designed and facilitated the fourth Oxford Futures Forum held in May 2014. This event brought together leading practitioners and researchers in a collective inquiry based on self-organizing, generative and reflexive making and dialogue. How participants engaged, from responding to the invitation to take part, as well as their practical and discursive encounters with one another during the event, threw up similarities and differences between the two fields. We present nine themes that capture the links and spaces between design and scenarios, yet suggest that they are not a straightforward overlap or a simple relationship, but rather a range of interactions between the fields, including feeding in, bridging, tension and repulsion. The paper's contribution is to suggest how scenario planning can engage with design, resulting in new opportunities for research and projects. These modes of engagement provide a framing to explore dialogues between other management disciplines.
AB - This paper examines the intersections between two futures-oriented domains of practice and research: scenario planning and design. Both are practice-led, with uneasy but productive relationships with theorizing. Exploring their relations offers ways to address challenges faced by interdisciplinary management research, which struggles to connect research and practice. The authors describe how they brought the two fields together. We outline how we convened, designed and facilitated the fourth Oxford Futures Forum held in May 2014. This event brought together leading practitioners and researchers in a collective inquiry based on self-organizing, generative and reflexive making and dialogue. How participants engaged, from responding to the invitation to take part, as well as their practical and discursive encounters with one another during the event, threw up similarities and differences between the two fields. We present nine themes that capture the links and spaces between design and scenarios, yet suggest that they are not a straightforward overlap or a simple relationship, but rather a range of interactions between the fields, including feeding in, bridging, tension and repulsion. The paper's contribution is to suggest how scenario planning can engage with design, resulting in new opportunities for research and projects. These modes of engagement provide a framing to explore dialogues between other management disciplines.
KW - Design thinking
KW - Engaged scholarship
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Scenario planning
KW - Strategic design
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U2 - 10.1016/j.futures.2015.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2015.06.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949625921
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 74
SP - 4
EP - 17
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
ER -