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<aside> 🗓️ Mon 21 - Tue 22 February

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<aside> 👋 Hi, we’re Nile - a strategic design company HQ’d in Edinburgh. We’re excited to be joining you at the end of February. We’ll be running a 2-day speculative futures design sprint! First, let us introduce ourselves, the brief and a bit about futures.

We help large organisations and promising start-ups use design to solve big problems faster. We also practice Futures Thinking. What is Futures Thinking? We’ll guide you through this at the sprint, but this article is a good place to start!

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A bit about the brief:

Rather than focusing on the past for insights, organisations are increasingly looking forward. For the pensions industry, this means understanding how we might fund later life in the face of demographic, technological and environmental changes.

You have been approached by Greater Life, a UK pensions company, to help them forecast long-term changes to the way we might fund ourselves in later life. Explore signals of change relating to their industry and bring a speculative future scenario to life. Finally, advise them on what strategic decisions they could make today.

Read the full brief 👉

Design Futures: Funding Later Life.

Over the two days, we will:

<aside> 📡 Explore signals of change related to the brief

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<aside> 📡 Forecast a future scenario, including products and services relating to the brief

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<aside> 📡 Prototype artefacts from the future to bring this scenario to life

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<aside> 📡 Highlight consequences & recommendations for the client

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<aside> 📡 Present your final output to the client (and industry expert) from Greater Life

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