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Editorial 2002 Interaction Ivrea: Jan Christoph Zoels, Silvia Gabrielli Design Council Project role � to manage the project, organise workshops, identify trends to be addressed and to co-ordinate dissemination activities. Agency for the Promotion of Industrial Creation (APCI), Paris Project role - to lead the identification areas of current design forecasting practice, and prepare and disseminate the final report. University of Helsinki (UIAH), Helsinki Project role - To lead the development of case studies. The Bureau of European Designers Associations (BEDA), Barcelona Project role - to organise and deliver the Future Perfect conference. Interaction Design Institute (IVREA) Project role - to support the identification of areas of current design forecasting practice and the development of case studies. Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), Paris Project role - to lead the development of the linkages with Foresight thinking in science and technology policy development. In addition, CNAM is helping to identify areas of current forecasting practice by providing quality assurance of research methodology and to develop case studies. Project Website: DFFN  Illustration from Whirlpool Project F book How can EU policymakers use design methods to better plan for the future? Is there a commonality between the EU's emphasis on stakeholder involvement and user-centred design methods like participatory design? Designers use tools and techniques to understand people's needs, behaviour, model ideas into seemingly real situations and elicit valuable responses from stakeholders. Design for Future Needs was an EU-funded research project to explore how these and other strategic design methods can help policymakers plan more effectively, particularly in the areas of science and technology. The project was run for the EC by UK's Design Council and a group of project partners from France, Italy, Spain and Finland. Interaction-Ivrea's contribution was a case study of Whirlpool Europe's recent foresight projects to show how one corporation has begun to embrace strategic design to shape its business policy for the next ten years. Interaction-Ivrea showed how such design methods can enhance the current planning tools that policymakers use, by making them more visual, spatial and experiential, therefore easier for stakeholders to understand and to give feedback that can affect the direction of projects earlier in their development. The case study was presented at a conference for EU policymakers in Brussels on 10 and 11 December 2002.  Illustration from Whirlpool Project F book Related Files
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