Futures Garden – Using Speculative Design to Inspire Policy Making

Abstract

The EU Policy Lab is experimenting with speculative design as a tool to support innovative policy making. The context and process of the experiment are described including some of its preliminary results. The futures artefacts clearly support futures literacy and co-creation processes, both with citizens as well as policymakers. At the same time more opportunities can be explored reaching deliberative democracy and concrete outcomes in the policy creation process.