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Designing for a New Normal

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.

Speaker 

Josef Hargrave is Associate Director for Foresight at Arup.

Additional information

Format:
Video
Video Length:
00:21:16
Publisher:
IStructE

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Training Education Video

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