Futures by Design: Expectations, Foresight and Scenarios E-MTN103

The course is suitable for employees – inlcuding formal leaders – at all levels in the private, public, and voluntary sectors, who want to contribute to the transformation and innovation required to deliver on the green shift, through a better understanding of uncertainty, risk, and prerequisites for change and transformation.

Knowledge

After completing the course, candidates will:

• have an in-depth knowledge of various theories, models, methods, tools, and key concepts related to futures thinking, and collective intelligence.
• be able to apply knowledge about anticipatory skills and how a creative approach based on collective intelligence contributes to a broader and deeper understanding of alternative futures, what it can bring, and how we can contribute to creating it.
• have an in-depth knowledge of various creative methods for developing new understandings of the future, and how this approach can be anchored in organizations.

Skills

After completing the course, candidates will:

• be able to contribute to co-creation, exercise leadership in support of innovation and anticipation, and embrace risk and uncertainty.
• be able to apply various design methods and tools to gain insight into how we see the current situation (status quo), and how we address the future, be able to benefit from this understanding in strategic work and decisions, and have a developed anticipatory and strategic competence in support of the development of organisation and society.
• be able to use different tools, prototype, test, and innovate against user groups to develop alternative understandings of the future.

General competencies

After completing the course, candidates will:

• be able to apply a good understanding of the basic dimensions of Futures Study Labs, so that knowledge and skills for understanding new issues and opportunities within organization and society are increased.
• be able to communicate professional issues both with specialists and with the public, and be able to convey co-creation and self-reflection orally and in writing, using a language that is natural within the field and society.
• be able to analyse and relate critically to organisations' future knowledge and own practice.

The course is built on the design principles of 'discovering, defining, developing and delivering'. It will not be lecture-based, but built on lecture elements, Futures Study Labs, group work, fellow student guidance, presentations, self-studies, and colloquium work. Various theories, models and methods are lectured. Theories and tools are discussed and used in workshops where the candidates draw on their own experience. Writing reflection notes based on both own development work, and relevant theory in the field. There may also be guest lecturers from the private, public, and voluntary sectors, who share their experiences around problem definition and solution.

Lectures for Spring 2026:

• TBA

Project assignment (100%; planning and implementation of Futures Study Lab; group work; grading A-F). Must be supported by relevant theory and critical understanding of this.Exam/evaluation: In the same semester as submission.

Requirement for exam/assessment

The candidate must have a minimum of 67% attendance (4 out of 6 days; a necessity for co-creation), and have delivered an individual critical reflection of the learning journey (approved / not approved) in order to be able to deliver the exam.

a) Bachelorgrad, cand.mag.-grad, annen grad eller yrkesutdanning av minimum 3 års omfang, utdanning som i henhold til § 3-4 i lov om universiteter og høyskoler er godkjent som jevngode med ovennevnte grader eller utdanningsløp.
b) SV-fakultetet ved Universitetet i Stavanger kan i spesielle tilfeller godkjenne andre dokumenterte kvalifikasjoner som helt eller delvis likeverdige med utdanningsløpene nevnt i a. – Opptak på bakgrunn av realkompetanse.
c) I tillegg kreves minst to års relevant yrkespraksis. Det er mulig å søke på bakgrunn av realkompetanse.

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