Styling the future. A philosophical approach to design and scenarios

Here, then, we will investigate the creative, even innovative, opportunities that emerge from a reworking of the value of style that comes from a critique of Design Thinking, a perspective on future-thinking (especially scenario planning (e.g. Schwartz, 1991, Li, 2014, Ramírez and Selin, 2014), but also some work from organisation and management studies (e.g. Tsoukas, 2005, 2015)), and an encounter with philosophy (particularly the work of Deleuze and Guattari, 1984, Deleuze and Guattari, 1987, Deleuze and Guattari, 1994. We will highlight the affective capacities of style - in design and scenarios, both as creative constructing of futures - by way of creatively accessing uncertainty, complexity and indeterminacy in the production of strategic maps for living (both individuals and organisations).