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Working together to design future-facing policy

Posted by: Lizzie Greenhaigh and Joe Randall, Posted on: 12 July 2018 - Categories: Futures Capability & Resource

What do you think policy-making will look like in 2030? How can government make policy future-facing? In the Projects team in the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat (EDS), these are the types of questions we regularly ask ourselves. Our team …

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Data for our future selves

Posted by: Professor Jeremy Myerson, Posted on: 10 February 2017 - Categories: Ageing
2D visualisation of Figure 7.2 from Foresight's Future of an Ageing population project report. The chart shows how horizons shrink for the over 70s with fewer miles travelled, and how commuting falls away the older you get.

How Foresight data has found its way into a national design museum.

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Design for an ageing population

Posted by: Cat Drew and Stephen Bennett, Posted on: 19 October 2016 - Categories: Ageing
The image shows a Padio, a cuboid, wooden interface for tablet computers.

The UK is in the midst of significant changes to our population. Foresight recently worked with Policy Lab and Central Saint Martins to investigate how design can help an ageing population.

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