Solutions Lab: Urban Foresight

Seoul, Korea

Facilitated the Global Cities Foresight Workshop at the Metropolis 40th Anniversary Congress in Seoul.

Through immersive role-play and scenario games, participants stepped into parallel urban futures as delegates meeting at a Cities Summit in 2040, co-creating stories, examining “artefacts from the future,” and backcasting the strategic steps that could take cities from 2024 to those possible futures. The workshop closed with a time capsule of participants’ hopes, fears, and recommendations for 2040, reinforcing how foresight can help city leaders navigate perma-crisis by steering intentionally toward the futures they want.

With Amber de la Haye, JT Mudge, Julia Munroe and Oscar Chamat-Nuñez, for Metropolis.