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Futures12 August 20267 min read

Futures from the global south are not a smaller copy of the north

Most published futures work is written from a handful of cities. The constraints that shape technology adoption across India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East produce a genuinely different set of futures — and they are worth designing for on their own terms.

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Frameworks · WISE29 July 20266 min read

The brief is usually not the problem

Every engagement arrives with a solution already attached to it. Design research is the discipline of spending two weeks finding out whether that solution addresses anything real — and it changes the answer more often than clients expect.

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Frameworks · WISE15 July 20268 min read

An AI operating model, not an AI project portfolio

Pilots are easy and evaporate. What survives is an operating model: how ideas enter, how they are evaluated, who is accountable, and what gets measured after release.

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Signals · PULSE30 June 20265 min read

Signals: what is actually shipping inside enterprises right now

A read across the engagements and conversations of the last two quarters — where AI budget is moving, what stalled quietly, and the three shifts we would bet on next.

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AI in the Enterprise10 June 20266 min read

Immersive is finally a business tool, not a showcase

Spatial and immersive work spent a decade as a marketing set piece. The applications now earning budget are training, simulation and complex sales — and they are judged on the same numbers as everything else.

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Futures22 May 20265 min read

Teaching young minds to design what comes next

If design is a way of thinking rather than a subject, it should not wait for university. UVO is our attempt to put futures literacy, design thinking and AI judgement in front of students while it still shapes how they see the world.

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Futures from the Global South

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