Visual Forecasting with AI

Scenarios are not predictions. Visualising a possible future can influence which futures become easier to imagine, discuss and support. Images can also make one future appear more desirable or inevitable while obscuring alternatives. The course therefore focuses on both building and questioning visual futures.

The course begins with a hands-on futures game using prepared cards to map possible developments according to how likely and desirable they appear. This opens up questions around whose perspective defines what is likely or desirable, and what would need to change for different futures to emerge.

Selected developments are then combined into a focused “What if?” scenario and applied to a real project, challenge or decision. The scenario is explored in relation to its potential impact on users, audiences, organisations or markets, including the possibilities, needs and tensions it could create. Two contrasting directions are developed before one is selected using defined criteria.

The course introduces a practical structure for directing generative image AI through subject, action, environment, composition, light, material, atmosphere and visual reference. The selected future is visualised through three connected perspectives: the wider environment or system, an artefact or touchpoint that provides evidence of that future, and the lived experience of a person affected by it.

The final stage focuses on critically examining the resulting imagery: what it makes attractive, inevitable or invisible; whose perspectives may be missing; and what is grounded in evidence versus speculation. The scenario is then revised against a deliberate constraint or overlooked perspective and translated into a concrete implication, decision or experiment.

The result is a Project Future Board and a repeatable method for using visual futures as a tool for exploring and shaping future directions.

What you'll leave with:

• A visual scenario board, not a slide deck.
• A repeatable method 
• Practical AI art direction: prompting, references, structure
• A framework for judging bias, omission, and false inevitability
• Criteria for when to iterate, when to stop, and when AI isn't the tool
• A plan for using visual futures methods in your own work

This course is for anyone who wants to become more deliberate about imagining and shaping the future, rather than responding only to what already exists.

It is particularly relevant for designers, creative directors, strategists, educators, innovation leads, founders, and people navigating a professional or organizational transition. You do not need to work in foresight or have prior experience with generative image AI. Bring a personal, professional, product, service, cultural, or organizational question you want to explore. Alternatively, you can work with a scenario provided during the workshop.

Knowledge of Miroboard is pre-requisite ( but not a membership or subscription), and you will need one available image AI tool subscription (Gemini, chatgpt, Midjourney, Runway, Flux or other). Basic familiarity with generative AI helps; no technical background required.

Do I need any prior knowledge?

Basic familiarity with generative AI helps; no technical background required.

Course fee

Fee excl. VAT
7 920 SEK

Fee incl. VAT
9 900 SEK

Additional Information

By clicking "REGISTER" on this page, you take your first step towards enrolling in the course. At this point, there are no financial commitments. If your profile and experience align with the course requirements, you will receive an enrollment offer. Only after accepting your place will you be asked to provide invoicing details. Invoices are issued once the minimum number of participants have been enrolled and the course is confirmed to run.