This course equips you with the tools and mindsets needed to make sense of interconnected challenges and design meaningful change. You will develop foundational knowledge in systems thinking and strategic foresight, learning to analyse dynamic relationships across environmental, social, and economic systems. Through hands-on exercises in systems mapping, leverage point identification, and problem structuring, you will gain practical skills to understand how systems behave-and where to intervene.

You will also explore futures thinking techniques such as horizon scanning, trend analysis, and scenario planning to map plausible futures and inform long-term decision-making. Drawing on these combined approaches, you will learn to design integrated, adaptive strategies that respond to deep complexities and uncertainties.

Whether you are working in policy, design, management, engineering or innovation, this course will build your capacity to lead in contexts where resilience, adaptability, and forward-thinking action are essential.

This course is an option course in the Regenerative Futures minor.