Futures Researcher
[y]our 2040
3 months | La Punt, Switzerland
[y]our2040 is a participatory futures initiative based in La Punt Chamues-ch, Switzerland. For the 2025 Tomorrow Envisioned gathering, the focus shifted from imagining futures to enabling action, supporting participants to move from long-term visions to concrete pathways and commitments.
My role was to design and develop the Pack of Possibilities, a card deck of innovations used to support backcasting, strategic dialogue, and solution prototyping during the gathering, and to co-author the post-gathering report.
The 2025 gathering needed a tool that could hold global complexity, remain accessible to non-experts, support structured backcasting conversations and bridge imagination and implementation.
Pack of Possibilities
Design Process
Research: Sourced and reviewed over 200 reports, articles, and case studies to identify globally relevant innovations.
Sensemaking: Organised the innovations using the STEEP framework and mapped them across three time horizons (Now / New / Next) to support temporal thinking.
Design: Developed each card with a short description and a set of provocative questions to stimulate dialogue, challenge assumptions, and inspire cross-pollination.
The Pack of Possibilities was used during facilitated backcasting sessions, where participants explored long-term visions, identified intermediate pathways, surfaced near-term actions and commitments. The cards helped participants move fluidly between global examples and local realities, long-term aspirations and present-day decisions.