Future-ready textiles: Activate desirable futures
Future-ready textiles: Activate desirable futures
November 21 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Climate regulation, circular business models, labour shifts, and rapid technological disruption are reshaping the textile industry. To thrive, organisations need more than compliance: they need foresight, practical tools, and cross-sector collaboration.
Take compostable packaging: a promising innovation, but its impact is limited without proper disposal systems or local infrastructure. Imagine if it had been co-created with municipalities, behaviour experts, suppliers, and brands — designed for real system change and grounded in economic and social viability. That’s the kind of thinking this programme fosters.
This structured, three-part online journey will guide you from understanding system-wide industry drivers, to exploring future business scenarios, to designing actionable innovation portfolios. By completing all three modules, you will develop a project idea grounded in tangible scenarios, insights from leading industry players, and proven case studies, future-proofing your organisation while creating lasting value for your stakeholders.
Module 3: Activate desirable futures
Shift from foresight to action. Translate desirable scenarios into innovation portfolios that balance incremental, adjacent and transformative initiatives. Design systemic interventions across product, process, business model, policy and culture.
Outcome: A portfolio of actionable innovations co-developed with industry leaders that shows how to turn a scenario into a viable cross-industry project and create tangible impact. Participants leave with practical tools for networking, engaging and securing collaboration.
