We are passionate about growing a brave, connected and inclusive community on foresight & futures.

How we work
Our Practice

Building a community of practice

Embedding
Te Ao Māori into futures thinking

Creating brave spaces to nurture creativity & push boundaries

Exploring, co-creating and imagining multiple futures

Sharing capability and resource

Who we are
Meet the Team

  • Victoria Mulligan

    CO-FOUNDER + DIRECTOR

    Victoria is a builder of things - teams, strategies, services and futures - and uses strategic foresight and participatory futures tools to create more resilient and adaptive strategies, and purposeful cultures. She is the creator of the Aotearoa Futures Network Map, Co-Founder and Director of Design Futures Aotearoa. She is a member of the Global Futures Society and a regular contributor to consumer and academic publications worldwide.

  • Jade Tang-Taylor

    CO-FOUNDER + DIRECTOR

    Jade is a Designer, Facilitator, Innovator, Collaborator & Educator, and deeply passionate about Co-Designing Better Futures. Currently, Jade wears a few hats; Innovation Advisor & Facilitator at academyEX, Tech Futures Lab, Fractional Director of ThinkPlace and Co-Founder & Director of Design Futures Aotearoa.

  • Alice Dimond

    Alice Dimond

    FUTURES FELLOW

    Alice Dimond     (Kāi Tahu) is a social innovation and futures practitioner with a passion for using these approaches to create more collective and equitable futures. As Project Manager at Tokona te Raki, she leads Mō Āpōpō Future-Makers, a project that equips young people to imagine and create better futures. This work includes designing a toolkit grounded in Māori perspectives and stories, empowering rangatahi to use these perspectives to navigate complexity and drive transformative change.

    In addition, Alice is a Fellow with Next Generation Foresight Practitioners and an Advisory Trustee at Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Trust. She is also the National New Zealand Lead for the Futures Methods from Around the World project, where she explores how Māori worldviews, ways of thinking, organising, and acting can unlock new pathways to better futures. 

  • Dr. Cheryl Doig

    Dr. Cheryl Doig

    FUTURES AUNTY

    Dr Cheryl Doig is a futurist, weaver and connector, often known as the #futuresaunty. She is part of many global projects connected with intergenerational ambition and future generations.
    Cheryl is co-designer of the Aotearoa Futures Barometer and the Aotearoa Futures Forum and coordinates futures networks across Ōtautahi, Aotearoa and Oceania.
    Cheryl is one of 12 futurists globally to be chosen as a Friend of the Forum, supporting the design and engagement with the Dubai Future Forum.

  • Howard Lange

    COMMUNICATIONS LEAD

    Howard blends curiosity with strategic thinking to develop innovative solutions to complex challenges. He is drawn to projects involving strategic design and interconnected systems, embracing open conversation and shared ideas.
    Howard oversees our external communications and, alongside Victoria, built and continues to maintain the Aotearoa Futures Network Map.

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Our Futures Friends

  • Alexanda Whitcombe

    FUTURES FRIEND

    Descendant of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi tribe in Whanganui New Zealand and Lakepa village in Niue. Alex is a senior design strategist for The Cause Collective, Healthy Families South Auckland, and project director of Kai Innovators. He is passionate about inter-generational impact amongst social issues that face New Zealand - Education, Entrepreneurship, Urban Development and Environment.

  • Jo Mitchell

    FUTURES FRIEND

    Jo Mitchell is experienced at working in the space where insights, strategy and lived experiences collide. She uses a human-centered design approach to help organizations develop and implement impactful strategies. Her particular areas of expertise are in marketing, branding, communications and diversity, equity and inclusion. As Tangata Tiriti, Jo is interested in the connection between futures thinking, equity-centered design and Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the implications of this in her ways of working.

What is Design Futures?

The practice of creating concepts & prototypes pulled from visions of the future in order to reimagine and transform the systems, experiences, processes, services, products, and objects that define our dominant reality. TSFX

According to Dunne and Raby, designers shouldn’t just address issues of today, but also take a look into the future and ask, “How can we address future challenges with design?”

Creating interactions with "the future," learn from those interactions, and apply those learnings to your life and work. 
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