welcome to the design2050 challenge

Create a Drivers of Change Card

We invite you to create a card for the future; what do you think will be driving change in the year 2050?

While we cannot predict the future, it is absolutely vital that each of us consider the years to come, so that we are more prepared to prevent, anticipate and cope with that which may occur...or more simply put what will be Driving Change?

The future is fiction...It is only when tomorrow transitions to yesterday that will we have the clarity of hindsight; only then, can we know what the future really was.

If you are not familiar with Arup’s Drivers of Change, please click on the template card below for a short description.

Anatomy of the Drivers of Change cards

Whatever the topic being presented, the anatomy of the Drivers of Change cards is always the same.

Each card has:

(1) a category fitting it into the STEEP framework (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental or Political); though the issue presented always has implications for the other four categories.
(2) an issue that is "driving change."
(3) to further articulate the issue, a thought provoking question.
(4) a factoid which expands on the consequences of each issue.
(5) an image which is a visual representation of the issue or its potential consequence.

Create your Card

1. Into which STEEP category does your issue best fit? It might fit into more than one but please pick the most relevant.
social technological economic environmental political

2. What is the issue? What is the force driving the change? (This should be one or two words, state it simply, you'll expand on it in the next two questions.)

You have of 60 characters left.

3. What question illustrates the sheer impact of your issue?

You have of 80 characters left.

4. Can you expand on the potential consequences of the issue? (in about 80 words or less)

You have of 400 characters left.

5. Upload an image, sketch or graphic here which you think best illustrates your issue.

6. Please enter your email address, so that we can attribute your idea, contact you in the future, and email you the image of your drivers of change card.

7. Click the 'Submit' button below, and wait a few seconds for the confirmation page.

[the small print]

All content submitted must be original. The participants agree that their character, and their story, either in full or partially, may be part of a presentation to the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore at the end of November [ see the ICSID site for more information ].