Online Program

Futures Design Accelerator

Grow your business, improve lives, and shape a thriving future — in the accelerator built for the next generation of changemakers.

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Starts

June 2025

Format

Live online cohort

Duration

8 weeks, 3 hrs/week

Overview

Grow your business.
Shape the future.

Whether you work in culture, the arts, education, or any other creative field — and you’re building a business to make a real impact, not just profit — this accelerator is for you.

Over 8 weeks, you’ll use Futures Design to explore alternative futures, challenge today’s thinking, create a vision for a fairer, more sustainable tomorrow, and redesign your product, business model, and marketing to help get us there.

This isn’t just a program — it’s a launchpad for the next generation of changemakers shaping a brighter future for people and the planet. Join us.

Build a changemaker business
Explore the future to get more customers, improve lives, and lead meaningful change.
Grow with purpose
See what others can’t, spot emerging opportunities, and grow your revenue — while making a real impact.
Spark a movement
Reimagine what’s possible, and build exciting futures where people and the planet thrive.
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Go beyond the past, the present, and the predictable to connect to what’s coming, and see what others can’t.
Third item
Go beyond the past, the present, and the predictable to connect to what’s coming, and see what others can’t.
Build a changemaker business
Explore the future to get more customers, improve lives, and lead meaningful change.
Grow with purpose
See what others can’t, spot emerging opportunities, and grow your revenue — while making a real impact.
Spark a movement
Reimagine what’s possible, and build exciting futures where people and the planet thrive.
Third item
Go beyond the past, the present, and the predictable to connect to what’s coming, and see what others can’t.
Third item
Go beyond the past, the present, and the predictable to connect to what’s coming, and see what others can’t.
Build a changemaker business
Explore the future to get more customers, improve lives, and lead meaningful change.
Grow with purpose
See what others can’t, spot emerging opportunities, and grow your revenue — while making a real impact.
Spark a movement
Reimagine what’s possible, and build exciting futures where people and the planet thrive.

Program
structure

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Introduction

Learn the process and core ideas of Futures Design. Define your project and get started.

Topics:

  • What you’ll learn and how the accelerator works  
  • Warm up: events from the future  
  • Introduction to the Futures Design

Assignments:

  • Share your business and goals  
  • Define your futures interests and scope

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Horizon Scanning

Spot signs of change and make sense of emerging trends.

Topics:

  • Anticipate the future through horizon scanning  
  • How to identify weak signals in everyday life  
  • Making sense of rising trends
  • The future of creative and cultural industries
  • Stay connected to the future

Assignments:

  • Browse the internet in search of the future  
  • Field trip to spot early signs of change in your environment
  • Identify the people and forces shaping the future
Alternative Futures

Challenge today’s thinking and explore how the future can be radically different.

Topics:

  • Look back to look forward
  • Uncovering, challenging and reframing assumptions  
  • Introduction to scenarios 
  • Your business across alternative futures

Assignments:

  • What if questions to challenge assumptions
  • Describe your business in four alternative futures
  • Analyze risks, opportunities, and implications for your business and the world
  • Choose your preferred future
Extraordinary Futures

Imagine, prototype, and co-create exciting futures worth fighting for.

Topics:

  • Introduction to World-Building
  • Storytelling and speculative design to bring futures to life
  • Behind the scenes of a speculative design studio
  • Engage your community to envision better futures together

Assignments:

  • Imagine, describe, and visualize your preferred future
  • Write a story and create a moodboard to share your vision
  • Co-create a desirable future with your community
Strategy and Product Redesign

Define the strategy, products, and services to drive your changemaker vision forward.

Topics:

  • Define your changemaker vision, your role, and your positioning
  • Guiding principles to enable better futures through your work
  • Designing and prototyping near-future products or services  
  • Backcasting: planning your path from future to present

Assignments:

  • Manifesto for a brighter future
  • Create a product or service that enables it
  • Tell the story of how it’s used in everyday life 
  • Define your action roadmap
Business Model Innovation

Make your cultural or creative business more profitable, sustainable, impactful, and future-facing.

Topics: 

  • Business thinking for changemakers  
  • Introduction to business model design 
  • Futures-driven impact business models

Assignments:

  • Define the value proposition of your near-future offering 
  • Design a future-ready changemaker business model
Marketing Strategy

Inspire action, attract customers, and build a changemaking movement.

Topics:

  • Marketing strategies for changemakers
  • Relationship building, storytelling, and experiences
  • Creating early traction with an innovative go-to-market strategy
  • Movement making, network effects, and growth engines
  • Growing with purpose: turning early traction into revenue and impact growth
  • The flywheel of change

Assignments:

  • Craft your go-to-market strategy and traction experiments 
  • Create your marketing and communication assets
  • Define your growth engine and impact flywheel
Leading Change

Activate your strategy and shape what’s next.

Topics:

  • Launching your movement
  • Leading the transition towards desirable futures
  • Wrap up: reflections, takeaways, and what’s next
  • Join the Make Better movement

Assignments:

  • Package and present your futures design work  
  • Apply your futures design strategy across your business
  • Launch your vision

Meet your instructor

Maurits Montañez is the Associate Director of the BBA in Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design in Paris, and the founder and CEO of Manuvo.

Named one of the Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review, Maurits combines design and culture with foresight to address global issues.

From preserving indigenous languages to nurturing creativity and literacy skills, his work focuses on empowering underserved communities and driving positive change.

Join Maurits on a journey to explore and design a brighter tomorrow.

How it works

Learn, grow, and create impact through an 8-week, hands-on experience — applying every concept directly to your business with tools, guidance, and creative collaboration.

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Live training

Join a weekly 2-hour live session with Maurits every Monday at 14h CET. Learn with your cohort.

Hands-on project

Create a brighter future and a changemaker business through a guided, 8-sprint project.

1:1 coaching

Get business-specific guidance in three private sessions to sharpen your results.

Creative community

Connect, share, and grow together with cultural and creative changemakers like you.

Certificate

Complete the program and share your new skills and project results with the world.

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Changemakers

“As someone who works with fashion trends, it was fascinating to think beyond my usual scope and explore new ways of thinking about the future. I discovered surprising insights I can bring into my work.“

SANDRA MATHEY GARCIA-RADA – TREND CONSULTANT AND FASHION EDUCATOR

“What a unique subject to make sense of the future, and put it into practice. And it's lots of fun! — what more could we want? I now feel more optimistic about the future and believe we can influence it positively.“

STEPHANE HOSSARD – FORMER PROJECT MANAGER, APPLE

“This program helped me take some steps back to identify change patterns, and then take (a lot) of steps into the future to think about possibilities and implications. Very thought provoking.”

EDWIN GARCIA – DIRECTOR, REDBOX INNOVATION US

"Amazing program that made me rethink the way I practice design every day. This training opened up new avenues for designing with freedom and exploring different paths. It was refreshing and inspiring."

ALEXIS DESBOIS – EXPERIENCE DESIGNER, FROG

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