Workshops, research and process facilitation.
Working with Jonas Drechsel means clarifying the question first, then choosing the method. He asks and wants to know exactly, until your assumptions about the future become negotiable. Depending on what your question needs, the work disrupts, dreams, experiments or just gets going. Method-agnostic, with a clear stance, as a futurist since 2018.
Ten years across research and practice
give me an eye for what is still missing.
I'm commissioned for these projects myself, as a futurist, researcher, process designer, facilitator or author. The brief decides which role it is. At Slow Mobility in Culture I was the future planning facilitator, at Faktor D the method designer, on the WDR report on synthetic media a researcher in co-production with Third Wave, at Futures4Europe the platform owner and project lead.
You need orientation on an unclear futures topic? You want to get people talking about futures without buzzwords and are looking for a format that connects stance, method and delivery? If you want my thinking and my work directly, we work together. If the task needs several skill sets and a team, youngk is the better way.
Format
From two hours, online or in person, in German or English. With research and documentation.
What you get
You put your images of the future on the table and sort them into three perspectives, projected-official, plausible-alternative and absurd-utopian. Afterwards you share a language for strategic debates and have first points to work from.
What you get
I collect trends, how they shift, hypes and weak signals and build scenarios from them. For four years I produced trend reports like this for the Kultur- und Kreativpilot*innen (U-Institut).
Format
Three to twelve months, several workshops, interim formats, handover.
What you get
What remains are structures in which others carry on working. That was the case at Futures4Europe and in months of coaching for Biga towards a strategic narrative.
Four possible lives, one story, three next steps. The scenario method from my work with organisations, applied to your own life.
Four sessions over two to three months, online or in person, in German or English.
Above all, got foresight communication going ↗
Three-day sprint, strategy condensed into a book ↗
Corporate foresight for VW, WDR, Novo Nordisk ↗
Trend reports over four years ↗
Developed and ran a workshop format ↗
Small-town barometer and scenario workshop with mayors ↗
Concept focused on the futures wheel, including a playbook
Future workshop, sufficiency played through in practice ↗
Lecture series in the bachelor's, basics in the design master's
StimmlosTrend, designed, set up and analysed along the lines of BerlinTrend ↗
Months of coaching towards a strategic narrative, backed by plausible futures ↗Got a question on your mind and not sure yet whether I'm the right person for it? A free 30-minute first call.
Book a first call ↗hallo@jonas-drechsel.info
