Social Design Dreaming

Hillary Carey is an award-winning product designer, a trusted leadership coach, a Ph.D. in designing for long-term visions, a teacher, and justice advocate.

Hillary support futures thinking + design + social change in several different ways

“If we have the ability

to create stories around these preferable visions of futures,

do we then have some sense of agency and ownership over
what the future becomes?”

Radha Mistry, Foresight Practitioner, 2024

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Vision-Setting

What does success look like?

My work helps people imagine, on small and large scales, what radical success looks like. That's what visions do.
Visions describe the outcomes of change so that other people will come along with you toward better possibilities.

Publications:
I write about design, futures, and radical imagination

I argue for a new practice of design, called Social Design Dreaming, that emphasizes long-term visions as a leverage point for social change. I clarify why visions are effective by drawing on design theory and practice, futures studies perspectives and methods, and utopian and radical imagination theories.