The Co-Creative Futures Triangle: A Workshop to Build Shared Intent for Transformation

Abstract

Although the Futures Triangle, developed by Sohail Inayatullah in the 1990s, has become a staple mental model for the futures/foresight field, it has not been well explored in the academic literature in the context of other futures tools. Here, the authors use a variation of the Futures Triangle as a springboard for foresight work in groups of any size, with a particular focus on facilitating the mindset shift that precedes organizational transformation. The authors present directions and an 80-stakeholder use case of the Co-Creative Futures Triangle, an effective tool to help diverse members of a system to co-ideate unique, positive futures created from a pool of shared values and current realities.