Academic objective and positioning

Academic objective

The CAS Crafting Futures enables participants to enter and deepen their knowledge of futures thinking and strategic work. The CAS enables participants to conduct and accompany futures workshops in their own organisation or community as designers, strategists and facilitators and to shape change. Various methods, tools and technologies help participants to expand their existing professional profile and incorporate aspects of futures thinking into their professional repertoire.

Graduates of the CAS:

  • can independently apply and guide futures methods with others.
  • can make abstract concepts tangible and experienceable.
  • can use analogue and digital technologies in a targeted way to shape and communicate futures.
  • can use futures thinking to guide strategy and transformation processes.
  • can win others over to projects and anchor concepts organisationally.
  • can sharpen and develop their own profile for the job market.
  • strengthen their skills in the areas of creativity, imagination, strategy and facilitation.

Positioning

In the context of the MAS Strategic Design, the CAS Crafting Futures programme takes a time horizon that actively uses future social, technological and ecological changes to initiate the right strategic steps today. The programme is particularly suitable for courageous people who want to explore alternative possibilities, initiate change and perceive uncertainty as a productive resource in order to lead future workshops and transformation processes in groups themselves.

The «spider model» shows the dimensions of curriculum in strategic design.

Know Yourself – Develop an awareness of yourself and your own value system, and an understanding of how these influence your own positioning and strategic behaviour.

Master Tools – Gain a broad knowledge of the concepts, methods and other instruments which help with strategic decision-making and support the required processes.

Shape Experiences – Build up expertise in aesthetic and experience-based elements and their influence on, and interaction in, the implementation of strategic decisions.

Enable People – Empower third parties by the clever application of collaborative and communication skills.

Navigate Complexity – Learn how to handle complex systems and about contextual relationships and how these can be influenced by interventions.

Transform Organizations – Learn about the idiosyncrasies of organizations and other communities.

Understand Technologies – Raise awareness of the potential of technological developments and their direct interaction with cultural aspects of everyday life.