Futures in action - the ‘Futures Action Model’ a new tool for Living Labs Gareth Priday and Jose Ramos a a
Action Foresight, Melbourne (Australia)
Abstract We present the ‘Futures Action Model’ (FAM) as a framework to support the initiation of new Living Labs but also as an innovation support tool in itself. FAM bridges the gap between emerging futures and real life action, whether articulating the core purpose of an organisation or developing a new service. We believe the FAM would be a useful addition to the existing innovation tool set for the Living Lab community and fits well with existing techniques. Key Words FAM, Futures, Strategy, Service, Innovation 1 Introduction Living Labs are relatively new to Australia with only one a member of ENOLL. Australia has an innovation policy of using Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) as a mechanism to bring together Industry and University researchers. Australia also has a long history of using large scale search conferences and systemic action research as ways to bring cross sector stakeholders together for join inquiry and action, following the work of Fred Emery and others (Wadsworth, 2010). In this paper we present FAM, a framework which fits well with the ethos of living labs and can be used as a framework to inform the set-up of a new Living lab (or CRC) and as a useful component of the project innovation cycle. 2 Introducing the Futures Action Model The Future Action Model (FAM) was developed to bridge the gap between emerging futures and real life action (Ramos, 2013). FAM has 4 Layers · · · ·
Emerging Futures Global Responses Community of the Initiative Initiative
While the layers are presented from ‘Emerging Futures’ to ‘Initiative’, in practice when completing the framework there will be significant jumping around between the layers as people usually have some view on the required initiative already. This
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