The CAS Crafting Futures takes participants through the various phases of futures thinking and offers a space for experimentation and learning in order to break through habitual thought patterns, try out active methods and tools and familiarise themselves with new and proven approaches. Finally, participants jump in at the deep end, organise a suitable intervention and gain the experience and confidence to design and support futures thinking processes in a self-determined way in the future.
The CAS is completed over a period of five months. It comprises four thematic blocks and a total of seven teaching modules, each lasting two to three days. Lessons take place on site at the ZHdK in the Toni Areal, remotely or on excursions. Each of the four thematic blocks is dedicated to one phase of the Futures Thinking process. The first thematic block focusses on exploration in order to imagine alternative futures and develop them in concrete processes. In order to make these futures tangible, negotiable and communicable, the second thematic block examines various forms of prototyping and communication. The third thematic block focuses on activation and anchoring: How can facilitators design and accompany such processes? How can these futures be strategically transferred to the present and what initial steps can organisations take today?
In an individual certificate project, the participants consolidate the modules and organise a future workshop in their organisation or community themselves. They reflect on, document and present these experiences and results as part of a final event in the fourth thematic block. Throughout the CAS, participants are supported by various experts, mentors and the fellow students, who actively share their experiences and knowledge.