Creagile Futures Literacy Living Lab

Have you ever wondered why familiar strategies and methods sometimes no longer work? Do you know the feeling of losing orientation in complex or unpredictable situations? How do you respond to questions for which there are no ready-made answers while still being expected to act, decide or communicate? – This on-campus interdisciplinary winter living lab addresses such real-world challenges through Creagile Futures Literacy. Students learn to remain action-capable in uncertainty, ambiguity and non-linear situations by combining creagile methods such as exploratory inquiry, iterative experimentation, narrative prototyping, perspective shifting and holistic creative reflection.
Working in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams, participants explore how not-knowing, intuition, presence, diversity and open-endedness can be used constructively to shape sustainable, desirable and alternative futures.

Typical questions we may work on include: How can complex and ambiguous information be communicated in ways that reach people from different professional, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds? How can dialogue be designed so that differences are respected and translated into inclusive solutions? Which creative techniques can strengthen resilience while expanding one’s own perspective? How can health and well-being awareness be promoted in ways that respond to the needs of patients while also supporting professionals and organisations? How can interdisciplinary teams be led so that diversity becomes a source of innovation rather than friction?

This interdisciplinary and experimental space for courageous pioneers combines short inputs, creagile interventions, prototyping and collaborative inquiry. It invites
participants to engage with complex societal, organizational and professional challenges in ways that are both systematic and experimental, evidence-informed
and imaginative. Through the Creagile Futures Literacy process, participants experience interprofessional and intercultural collaboration, expand their creagile and future-oriented competence profile and co-design proposals for contexts such as health, social work, language and communication, entrepreneurship and innovation, organizational transformation, sustainability and responsible human-AI collaboration.

Target audience: The module is designed for Bachelor’s, Master’s/MSc and PhD students from ZHAW, the EELISA Alliance and other international institutions. It welcomes participants from diverse disciplines such as communication, language and media, social work, psychology, health sciences, management and business, engineering, sustainability, design, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as related fields.

The future starts now!

The future is “creagile”!

The future is you!

The future is us!

Now! 

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