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Designing for a New Normal

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An explanation of foresight in the context of engineering projects and its importance in engineering education.

Josef Hargrave gives an overview of foresight as a methodology, strategy and tool to help engineers and their clients understand what the future looks like in a structured way.

With practical examples of foresight projects he explains the trend analysis and how this affects strategic actions.

This video is from our 2018 Academic Conference.

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Josef Hargrave is Associate Director for Foresight at Arup.

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00:21:16
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