# Changeist

> International strategic foresight consultancy working with governments, brands, and cultural institutions. We design research, simulations, and experiences that make the future usable.

## Core
- [Home](https://changeist.com/): overview and positioning
- [Philosophy](https://changeist.com/philosophy): approach and frameworks
- [Team](https://changeist.com/team): team overview
- [Scott Smith](https://changeist.com/team-scott-smith): founder bio, career, credentials
- [Susan Cox-Smith](https://changeist.com/team-susan-coxsmith): partner bio, career, credentials
- [Books](https://changeist.com/books): How to Future (Smith with Madeline Ashby, Kogan Page, 2020) and Future Cultures (Smith and Cox-Smith, Kogan Page, 2023)
- [Events](https://changeist.com/events): talks, workshops, appearances
- [Media](https://changeist.com/media): press coverage and podcast conversations

## Services
- [Consulting](https://changeist.com/consulting): research sprints, team learning, and exhibition design for governments, brands, and cultural institutions
- [Research](https://changeist.com/research): research systems that scan for weak signals, map emerging trends, and translate uncertainty into strategy
- [Workshops](https://changeist.com/workshops): hands-on foresight method training, from half-day intensives to multi-day programmes
- [Strategic Simulations](https://changeist.com/stratsims): custom immersive simulations that test leadership under frontier risk
- [Public Experiences](https://changeist.com/engage): exhibitions, speculative artefacts, and installations for cultural institutions
- [Speaking](https://changeist.com/speaking): keynotes, panels, and expert commentary

## Projects
- [Projects](https://changeist.com/projects): client and commissioned work
- [Museum of the Future, Dubai](https://changeist.com/projects/museum-of-the-future-dubai): foundational future concepting frameworks for one of the world's most-visited future-facing institutions
- [Foom: AI Governance Simulation](https://changeist.com/projects/foom-ai-governance-simulation): a role-play simulation exploring the future of AI policy across sectors
- [FOREVER](https://changeist.com/projects/forever): research and design advisory for an exhibition on death, memory, and time
- [BEGINNINGS](https://changeist.com/projects/beginnings): an interactive diagnostic on personal foresight archetypes for MOD., Adelaide
- [DyNaMo & IBER](https://changeist.com/projects/dynamo-iber): speculative field kits for humanitarian crisis response, commissioned by the IFRC
- [Community Resilience in Emergencies](https://changeist.com/projects/encountering-the-future-community-resilience-in-emergencies): five speculative artefacts on resilience in emergencies, commissioned by Nesta
- [Signals of Tomorrow Innovation Lab](https://changeist.com/projects/signals-of-tomorrow-innovation-lab): a four-day design lab convening UK and Singaporean creative talent
- [Winning Formula](https://changeist.com/projects/winning-formula): a speculative look at the future of data, sport, and culture
- [Money for Mars](https://changeist.com/projects/money-for-mars): a space-economies design workshop, now an ongoing offering

## R&D
- [R&D](https://changeist.com/r-and-d): in-house method and tool development
- [AREAS Framework](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/areas-framework): how we built a positioning framework for the 10F Consortium
- [Regional Futures Observatory](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/regional-futures-observatory): a live database for sensemaking the future of a rapidly changing region
- [Simulating Pharma Frontiers](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/simulating-pharma-frontiers): testing whether a simulation engine built for AI risk could carry a different kind of frontier
- [Simulating Mobility Futures](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/simulating-mobility-futures): making future transportation tradeoffs feel like lived decisions, not policy abstractions
- [Archivists and Futurists](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/archivists-and-futurists): a workshop built around a failure that had already happened
- [The Container Problem](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/the-container-problem): without a defined container, nothing is clearly showable, so we built one
- [APE, Observed](https://changeist.com/r-and-d/ape-observed): what does an autonomous system attend to when no one tells it what to make?

## Journal
- [Journal](https://changeist.com/journal): essays and longform writing
- [Design for the Pull of the Future](https://changeist.com/journal/design-for-the-pull-of-the-future): why museums and science centres are taking on the future as a subject
- [Working Notes from the Edge of Practice](https://changeist.com/journal/lge2iwso4kcywye6c9ofjbmjedk1yb): notes on recent work pushing the practice forward
- [We Ran a Business LARP. People Went Deep.](https://changeist.com/journal/we-ran-a-business-larp-people-went-deep): twenty-four participants investigating six fictional organisations that tried to embed futures thinking
- [When The Future Pushes Back](https://changeist.com/journal/when-the-future-pushes-back): on AI sector leaders withdrawing from policy negotiation

## Optional
- [Contact](https://changeist.com/contact)
- [Newsletter](https://changeist.com/newsletter)
- [Newsletter archive](https://changeist.com/newsletter-archive)