Designing future worlds
The future will always be dynamic, volatile, uncertain, and complex. Today’s challenges may not be the same as tomorrow’s. We need better tools to assess the potential opportunities and threats that lie ahead.
HABITAT is a Futures Thinking advisory and consulting group that provides design, training and strategy services.
Get the new book by Phil Balagtas on O’Reilly
Making Futures Work
Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation and Strategy
Empower your organization with Futures Thinking
Fascinated with the future and looking to upskill your design or strategy team? We can help provide training and guidance to help build your capabilities and new offerings leveraging the principles of Futures Thinking.
Be a pioneer in the markets of tomorrow
Leveraging Futures intelligence will help you prepare for new opportunities and be the first to make your mark in your industry. Whether it’s looking at short term or long-term time horizons, we can guide your projects into actionable roadmaps toward future products and services.
When we think about the future we often only think about technology. But the world is much bigger than that. We must envision future worlds, people, policies, and new operating environments—new HABITATS that we will eventually live and work within.
HABITAT is led by Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative, and the global Speculative Futures community. We fuse principles from Strategic Foresight and Speculative Design to craft rich visions of tomorrow.
"Phil has an exceptional ability to inspire organizations to think big, beyond the present and near term, to envision their futures. He deftly leads teams of people through design thinking and design doing journeys in order to reinvent themselves and make a new future possible.”
Aliza Dzik, Associate Partner
McKinsey Design
“We had the chance to benefit from Phil’s rich experience in speculative design, design thinking and strategic foresight through joint projects and initiative. His support has helped us immensely in engaging creatively in strategic planning and anticipatory decision-making. Phil’s passion for unconventional approaches and profound expertise in design has been both a source for inspiration and concrete results.”
Martin Waehlisch, Political Affairs Officer
United Nations Dept of Political & Peacebuilding Affairs
“Phil is an experienced practitioner in Foresight and Speculative Design, he led an immersive training workshop at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Liverpool University in very inspiring and empathic way, all participants learned much and were able to make knowledge transfer of his methodologies in their teaching.”
Massimo Imparato, Head of Industrial Design
Xi'an Jaotong - Liverpool University
Listen to the Voltage Control podcast
featuring Phil Balagtas
“One of the myths that we’re trying to dispel is that futures thinking is not necessarily this whole other body of practice. Just like service design isn’t a whole other body of practice. It’s still Design, it’s still systems thinking. They just have different tools such as a service blueprint…”
