Futurity Works
Futurity Works aims to help consultancies unlock their imagination to think beyond the present and speculate possible futures, to adapt and build prevention for emerging needs. Our service consists of two parts, a future hackathon and an intelligence collective platform, to cultivate creative conversations through a fun way of storytelling and dynamic collaboration.
Service
Service Design
Design strategies
Speculative Design
Client
Consultancy
Year
2020

ABOUT
The Future of Consulting Services
Reimagine new concepts of how consulting services might be shaped to meet new challenges for both markets and ways of work. Identify external challenges over 3-5 years and develop a new organisational design and ways of working.
Futurity Works is a service that transforms the way consultancies narrate their vision to clients through speculative storytelling frameworks, aiming to facilitate future design thinking. It consists of a hackathon and an intelligent digital platform, which are designed to help both employees and clients create curiosity and understand the value of speculating future scenarios. Through the collaborative activities during the hackathon, they can establish the short term strategies that could be adopted, such as prevention, adaptability, transformation and sustainability for emerging needs.
CHALLENGE
Most of the tech consultancies are just being reactive to what clients ask for, by providing delivery-oriented solutions which will eventually lead to a decrease of competitiveness in the market. It is necessary for consultancies to be involved in the earlier stages of the design process and establish a collective understanding of creative thinking preferable futures with clients in order to build a long term relationship with them.

DESIGN APPROACH
DESK RESEARCH
Problem scope
Right now an estimated 12.7 million tonnes of plastic – everything from plastic bottles and bags to micro beads – end up in our oceans each year. That’s a truck load of rubbish a minute. Millions of tons of waste plastic from British businesses and homes may be ending up in landfill sites across the world, the government’s spending watchdog has warned.
Plastic Recycling in Dharavi
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The recycling industry in Dharavi is a £700m industry
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80% of Mumbai’s solid waste is recycled; that is close to 8000 metric tons
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Plastic waste is bought by the kilogram at (approx.) 15p per kg of plastic bottles
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The plastic recycling industry employs close to 10,000 people
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20,000 single-room factories support the economy of the slum
Housing Situation in Dharavi
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1 million people live in Dharavi with a population density of 869,565 people per square mile
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The most basic housing relies on materials like corrugated iron sheets and bamboo or wooden planks
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Dharavi receives heavy monsoon rains, which takes its toll on poorly built houses
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Most structures are built through manual labour due to narrow streets and lack of space for heavy machinery
WHAT IS IT FOR?
Tech consultancy
01/
Point of plastic waste accumulation
Almost all of the plastic waste from Mumbai
02/
Recycling industry
-Employing almost 10,000 people
-Having 20,000 single-room factories
-A £700m industry
03/
Need for durable housing
-869,565 people per square mile
-Built through manual labour
How might we help consultancies attain a competitive advantage, through instilling a future design thinking mindset?

SERVICE CONCEPT


TRIGGER CARDS

SERVICE CONCEPT
SERVICE

FINAL PRODUCT



VALUE CREATION
How will it benefit for residents in Dharavi slum

Business profit
Creating valuable end-products compared to raw materials.

Open source
Open Source toolkit of process and product with the use of accessible materials

Impactful design
No toxic gases, no concrete and cement, overall positive environmental impact
VIDEO
TEAM
Cammy Sha
Irene Liao
Radhika Agrawal