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Workshop registrants can add on a copy of Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future at the reduced rate of $25 (regular price is $35)
Catalyst: Assembling Tomorrow. Designing a Thriving Future.
How can design help us navigate change and shape a better tomorrow? Find out in this interactive four-part workshop series led by Atlanta educator Kevin Day, with special guest speakers.
Inspired by Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future by Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter (Stanford d.School), this series blends book discussion with hands-on design exercises. You’ll explore key ideas and apply futures-thinking tools through:
- Storytelling – Craft compelling narratives about the future
- Interactive Prototyping – Experiment and bring ideas to life
- Speculative Design – Imagine and design possible futures
Perfect for designers, educators, futurists, and curious minds, this series invites you to think critically about the world ahead and design responses to emerging challenges.
How It Works
Each session introduces a concept from Assembling Tomorrow, explores real-world and speculative examples, and engages participants in creative design challenges.
📖 No reading required! You’re welcome to follow along with the book, but it’s not necessary.
✅ Flexible attendance! Join a single session or sign up for the full series.
Let’s shape the future—together.
Session 1: Unintended Consequences—How Design Shapes the Future
Wednesday, April 16 6-8:30 pm
This session introduces the concept of "runaway design", exploring how innovations like social media, artificial intelligence, and urban planning have shaped the world in ways their creators never anticipated.
Session 2: Histories of the Future—How Might Design Shape Tomorrow?
Wednesday, May 14 6-8:30 pm
In this session, we’ll explore the power of storytelling and speculative fiction in imagining what’s next. By crafting future headlines and designing fictional prototypes, participants will examine how today’s choices shape tomorrow’s realities—and how we can use these insights to build a better future.
Session 3: Futuring and Speculative Design—Exploring What’s Possible
Wednesday, June 18 6-8:30 pm
In this session, we’ll explore design futures tools that help us map possibilities, understand long-term consequences, and imagine alternative futures. Through hands-on activities, participants will practice techniques for visualizing and preparing for change in design and society.
Session 4: Assembling a Better Tomorrow—Designing for Impact
Wednesday, August 13 6-8:30 pm
In this final session, participants will apply everything they’ve learned to real-world challenges, using design as a tool for responsible, forward-thinking solutions. Through a hands-on hackathon, we’ll brainstorm innovative ideas and craft personal or professional commitments to shaping a more intentional future.
📖 No reading required! You’re welcome to follow along with the book, but it’s not necessary.
✅ Flexible attendance! Join a single session or sign up for the full series.
Let’s shape the future—together.
About the Workshop Leader
Kevin Day is the Impact Design Lab Coordinator at the Mount Vernon School. His course invites eighth graders to learn and lean into design thinking as a stance of generous curiosity, empathy-fueled problem-finding and problem-solving, and a purpose-full path by which learners of any age might participate in designing a better world. He is leaning into his eighteenth year of classroom teaching this year; his vocational journey has also wound through cross country and track coaching and hospital chaplaincy. When the school day ends, he fights traffic to get home to Duluth, GA, where he and his wife (Katie) do their best to keep up with their beloved son (Elijah, 7). Kevin loves running, aspires to write more, and means to live authentically - and today - towards the intersection of design thinking, spiritual practice, and creative courage.
About the Workshop Collaboration Leaders
Stay tuned!
Registration: $25 | $15 for MODA members
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Accessibility: Designers with different styles of learning or special needs are welcome in MODA public programs. We will be able to most effectively help everyone learn and enjoy this experience if we know about those needs in advance of the program. Please email miranda@museumofdesign.org with questions or information.
Cancellation Policy: MODA reserves the right to cancel a program if the minimum enrollment requirements are not met, but don't worry: should MODA have to cancel, we will gladly issue a full refund to all registrants. If you need to cancel your plans for any reason, we kindly request that you notify us at least 7 days prior to the event start. By doing so, we can process a refund for the ticket cost (minus a small $10 processing fee per class). Unfortunately, we cannot provide refunds for cancellations made less than 7 days before an event.
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