Project Manager Probes Program
Current
World Design Forum
Eindhoven Area, Netherlands
A ‘what if…’ question is the starting point of a probes program. What if this would be the situation in 15 years from now. What could that mean? A probe process starts with a radical proposition, an extreme future perspective. To stimulate your creative thinking, your imagination. You don’t have to think about reality, about feasibility, you’re unrestrained. Use your imagination to think and visualize a future where things are possible that we can hardly imagine today. Probing is a design-driven research methodology to gather insights in the intrinsic drivers, believes, wishes, dreams and values of people. A probe is a visualisation of a possible future situation, provocative, empathic, confronting, meant to provoke spontaneous reactions and emotions. These insights feed the debate; politically, economically, socially and ecologically for different, including unlikely, developments in the world. In a probes program we want to identify the inspiration and opportunities for the concepts of tomorrow, for products, services, new business models, new processes, situations and collaborations.