Worked examples
The Double Hexagon, worked through
Twenty-five topics, each walked step by step through the Double Hexagon — from focal question through scanning and sense-making into scenarios, worldbuilding, and artifacts.
Every step is signposted, so you always know which phase you're in and which tool is doing the work. Each one ends with a Try it yourself prompt you can run on your own topic, with or without an AI. Claims about the world are referenced; the futures are clearly marked as constructed.
Serious · global
civilisational-scale risks and systems
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Antibiotic Resistance
How might humanity live with bacterial infection in 2050, as the antibiotic era's guarantees fade?
Three HorizonsDator's ArchetypesFood Security
What holds the global food system in its current fragile shape, and what would have to give for a resilient one to grow?
Three HorizonsCausal Loop DiagramGlobal Migration Patterns
What might belonging and movement look like in 2050, when both climate displacement and borderless remote work pull in opposite directions?
Dator's ArchetypesSpeculative PolicyDesign FictionNuclear Fusion Adoption
What might the adoption of commercial fusion power look like in 2045?
2×2 Scenario MatrixDesign FictionOcean Governance
How might the high seas be governed in 2045 — and who gets to decide?
2×2 Scenario MatrixSpeculative PolicyWater Stress
If freshwater stress intensifies as projected through 2050, what reorganises — and what would a water-secure 2050 have required us to do, working backward?
Futures WheelBackcasting
Policy-adjacent
institutions, work, care, governance
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Cancer as Chronic Condition
What does it mean to live — for decades — with a cancer that is managed but never cured?
Three HorizonsDesign FictionCaregiving
If care became fully visible as labour by 2040, what would the paperwork look like — and what would we have gained and lost?
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)Design FictionCircular Economy
If global material throughput is structurally circular by 2050, what had to happen — in what order — between now and then?
BackcastingDisability and Accessibility
If society stopped disabling people by 2045, what had to change — and what would an ordinary day feel like?
BackcastingDay-in-the-lifeThe Future of the Firm
What organisational forms hold our working lives in 2045, when the default corporation is no longer the default?
Dator's ArchetypesDesign FictionMental Health Framing
How might we understand and respond to mental distress in 2045 — and which frame wins?
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)Three HorizonsNeighbourhood Mutual Aid
If mutual aid becomes mainstream infrastructure by 2040, does it stay mutual aid — or become outsourced welfare?
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)Speculative PolicyPublic Space
Who will own and govern public space in 2045 — and what will it be for?
STEEP+++Worldbuilding Canvas
Personally resonant
culture and everyday life
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Adult Friendship
If friendship becomes something you must deliberately make and maintain, what does adult life feel like in 2040?
Futures WheelDay-in-the-lifeAutomation × Gen AI × Skills — Individual Navigation
How might Maya — a 34-year-old freelance illustrator in Mexico City — read her own next 7 years?
Three HorizonsFutures WheelCompetitive Board Gaming
What does competitive tabletop gaming become by 2045, as analog play booms in a digital world?
Three HorizonsFuture of Childhood
What might childhood feel like, from the inside, in 2045?
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)Day-in-the-lifeHandwriting
What becomes of handwriting by 2045 — extinction, niche, or something stranger?
Three HorizonsHealthy Ageing
What might healthy ageing look like in 2045, if we let the myth shift first?
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)Futures WheelDesign FictionHeat
What might a global / regional response to chronic extreme heat look like by 2040?
Futures WheelSpeculative PolicyHow We Mourn
How might we mourn in 2045, when the dead can answer back?
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)Worldbuilding CanvasK-pop
If K-pop's production methodology continues its current trajectory, what does global popular culture look like in 2040?
Futures WheelLibraries
What does the library become by 2045, when books aren't the point?
Dator's ArchetypesWorldbuilding CanvasSleep Culture
If sleep becomes fully quantified and performance-relevant, what does rest become by 2040?
Causal Loop DiagramDesign FictionNo worked examples use that tool yet.