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    CAS Crafting Futures

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    • Target audience
    • Positioning
    • Dates
    • Cost
    • Application

    Short description

    Imagine Futures, Create Spaces of Possibility and Move Organisations

    Futures Literacy enables people and organisations to shape the future, to experience it today and thus to actively drive forward urgent changes. The CAS provides the necessary tools and mindsets and cultivates the creativity needed to support processes as future agent with a high level of imagination, to tackle challenges with courage and to develop pioneering strategies.

    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, and participants consolidate the modules in an individual certificate project and organise a future workshop in their organisation or community. They reflect on, document and present their experiences and results at a final event.

    Target audience

    The CAS Crafting Futures is aimed at all people who deal with transformation processes in organisations, with communities or as service providers:

    • Creatives who want to use futures thinking more strategically.
    • Strategists who want to think more creatively about the future.
    • Managers who want to recognise new developments early on and prepare for them.
    • Organisational developers, innovation, change and project managers, marketeers, business analysts, specialists, managers or employees from institutions who want to guide transformations. 
    • Anyone who is curious about shaping the future and wants to expand their creative methodological competences and facilitation skills.

    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.

    Dates

    The CAS Crafting Futures starts anually in March and lasts until July. Roundabout 20 to 25 participants will be accepted. The languages of instruction are German and English.

    Next edition
    Academic year 2026: 5.3.2026–4.7.2026

    Subject to change

    Cost

    Early-bird-price until November 3, 2025: CHF 7900.– (zzgl. CHF 200.– Anmeldegebühr)
    Regular prices as of November 4, 2025: CHF 8800.– (zzgl. CHF 200.– Anmeldegebühr)

    Application

    More information (main page): CAS Crafting Futures