Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space |
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Affiliation: | 1. Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;2. Arizona State University, United States;3. Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;4. Saïd Business School & Green-Templeton College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;5. Imperial College and University of Oxford, United Kingdom;1. Department of Management Studies and Quantitative Methods, Parthenope University of Naples, Generale Parisi Street 13, 80132, 80133 Naples, Italy;2. Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Via Durando 38/A, 20158 Milano, Italy;1. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Tekniikankatu 1, Tampere, P.O. Box 1300, 33101 Tampere, Finland;2. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Vuorimiehentie 3, Espoo P.O. Box 1000, 02044 VTT, Finland;1. Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, United States;2. Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet, DTU – Building 424, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Scenario planning Design thinking Strategic design Engaged scholarship Interdisciplinarity |
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