Facilitated working environments

Future Centers are facilitated working environments that help organizations to prepare for the future in a proactive, collaborative and systematic way. They are used to create and apply knowledge, develop practical innovations, bring citizens in closer contact with government and connect end-users to industry. (more…)

Links To Some Future Centers:

• OpenFutures European project: www.open-futures.net
• Future Center Alliance: http://www.fc-alliance.net/
• Het Buitenhuis: www.het-buitenhuis.nl
• LEF: http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/over_ons/lef_future_center/
• MindLab: www.mind-lab.dk
• Royal Mail Innovation Lab: www.Royalmailgroup.com/thelab
• Dialogues House: http://www.dialogueshouse.nl/

 Resources on Future Centers

• H. Kune (2008). The reality of Future Centers in Europe.
• R. Dvir (ed.) (2008). OpenFutures – Operating System for Future Centers (2008). See OpenFutures website: www.open-futures.net
• H. Kune (XPIN: 2005). Future Centers: Space for Innovation. Available in Dutch. (more…)