What We Do

While Changeist is constantly experimenting with new approaches to what we do, our primary work falls into the four categories below. We’re happy to have a conversation about how our twenty-plus years of skills and experience can help you address a challenge, equip a team, inform an audience or uncover new insights.

  • Research & Consulting

    We are continuously scanning for weak signals, trends, and driving forces, so that we can deliver rich insights for the organisations we work with through our strategic advisory practice. We apply sensemaking tools, develop scenarios, imagine narratives and prototype new ways of experiencing possible futures for clients and partners. This includes designing new tools, platforms and approaches that help define preferable futures and make them tangible for decision-makers and stakeholders.

  • Capacity Building

    Using our How to Future methodology, we offer workshops, intensives, custom studio courses and immersions that put the tools of futures discovery and creation into the capable hands of organizations, teams and individuals. We've created learning experiences in dozens of countries, organizations and contexts worldwide. A number of our workshops and intensives are now available online for distributed teams, as single events or programmed learning.

  • Public Engagement

    We create content and design strategies to help people experience futures in immersive ways — using various media, materials, and objects to spark discussions about possible and desirable outcomes. We collaborate with businesses, cultural institutions, and public organizations to share what's coming and encourage public conversations about change.

  • Content & Narrative Design

    We create stories, incorporating both the real and the imaginary, to transport audiences to unexpected and diverse futures. This work includes topical research, creating original content, script consulting, developing programming, designing experiences, crafting journeys and collaborating with media companies, content creators, and independent producers.

  • Strategic Simulations

    This new capability draws from our skills and experience—from trends research to artifact development to narrative and game design to capacity building—to create custom immersive learning experiences that help organizations safely explore frontier risks, and build participants’ strategic agility to lead in contexts of deep uncertainty and surprise.

Public Projects

The Changeist team has worked across dozens of sectors, markets and cultures, ranging from media, technology, mobility, retail, finance, health care, security, and energy to education, governance, culture, humanitarian relief and human development. Each experience informs the whole of our knowledge and approach.

While many of our projects are internal or proprietary in nature, we are able to share the examples below. Contact us if you would like to know more.

The Future of Arts & Culture

Collaborative research

Imagining Feminist Futures

Learning design

Nesta Trends Library

Futures intelligence

Future is Now

Experiential artifacts

Future Climate Challenges

Public engagement

Future Trends & Signals System

Futures intelligence