Future in Praxis: Tracing Changing Creative Practice Around Three Areas of Complexity
Future in Praxis: Tracing Changing Creative Practice Around Three Areas of Complexity
The Foresight Lab has released its new report, Future in Praxis, the latest publication in the Foresight series exploring the future of convergent media production. Building on Introduction to Moments (2024), this report shifts focus from technological possibility to lived experience, asking how people working across the creative sector are responding to rapid transformation in their everyday practice.
Through continued horizon scanning and interviews with creative workers, industry leaders, and cultural experts, the report continues the exploration of three interrelated areas of complexity: Who gets to own machine learning? What platforms will facilitate culture? How will creative work evolve?
The report brings user insights together into patterns and offers five design principles for human-centred innovation, which were tested and elaborated on in a speculative co-design exercise with the Foresight Board. The resulting artefacts, four near-future interventions, translate abstract ideas into tangible prototypes for what creative innovation could look like in practice.
At its core, the report examines how agency in the creative industries may be rebalanced, and what this means for ownership, authorship, and collaboration. As convergent media becomes a testing ground for AI, data ethics, and new business models, understanding the human dynamics behind innovation is essential for anyone shaping policy, funding, or investment. Here is one framework for identifying where meaningful innovation is likely to emerge, and what kinds of support, governance, and routes to market will be viable.