{"id":517,"date":"2025-05-20T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tha.de\/honors\/2025\/?p=517"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:44:37","slug":"digital-transformation-with-optimism-a-design-futuring-workshop-on-positive-digital-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tha.de\/honors\/2025\/2025\/05\/20\/digital-transformation-with-optimism-a-design-futuring-workshop-on-positive-digital-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Transformation with Optimism: A Design Futuring Workshop on Positive Digital Visions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blog, May 13, 2025, Eighth Week Honors Seminar<\/em> Prof. Dr. Stephan Zimmermann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe future we want must be invented, otherwise we will get one that we don\u2019t want.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Joseph Beuys<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This quote opened our session and it set the tone for everything that followed. In this week’s Honors Seminar, we weren’t just asked to think about the future, we were invited to imagine it, shape it, and design it-with optimism at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by Prof. Dr. Stephan Zimmermann, this session focused on how digital transformation and design thinking can be combined to create positive, tangible visions of the future. It wasn’t a lecture. It was an experience. And it left many of us thinking: What kind of future do we actually want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Technology Trends to Thoughtful Questions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We began by reflecting on current and emerging technologies-AI, cloud computing, big data, IoT, robotics, and more. These are shaping our world every day. But instead of looking at them in isolation, we zoomed out and asked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What impact will these have on our lives in the long term?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how can we use them in ways that serve people and the planet, not just progress?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This led us into the world of Design Futuring — a structured but creative method for building scenarios of possible futures, grounded in present trends and values. The focus? Not perfect futures, but optimistic, meaningful ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1: Exploration<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

We split into small rotating groups and explored major megatrends like Health, Eco-Intelligence, and Knowledge Culture. At each table, we used the Future Triangle method to analyze:<\/p>\n\n\n\n