Your browser doesn't support javascript. This means that the content or functionality of our website will be limited or unavailable. If you need more information about Vinnova, please contact us.

Four peepholes into the future

Published: 16 December 2022

Joakim Skog

Program manager

How can we shape and lead the way towards a desirable future? As an expert authority in innovation, Vinnova runs several initiatives to pave the way for how business and the public sector can work exploratoryly with social change.

In 2022, Vinnova has financed 11 project that worked with tools and methods in foresight and speculative design.

In the process, actors active in the art world, the business world, the public sector and academia have worked to expose, examine and renegotiate the values, norms and ideas that underlie the way we organize our society.

The result is a number of Future Prototypes - which shape and test new thought models and challenge our idea of what the society of the future might look like.

We have met four of the prototypes during the work process. Here you get an insight into how they have worked with questions about the future.

The prevention clinic

Signs of change

The conversion hotel and the marine allotments

The epic of the mobile society

If you want to try tools to look into the future and practice radical innovation, read here.

Text: Joakim Skog

Leave a comment

You have chosen to disallow certain cookies and funtions on our website, such as commenting on blog posts. You can change your privacy settings at any time to allow these functions and get a better experience.

Change privacy settings

 

Latest blog posts

The importance of time between acceleration and friction.

6 juli 2026

Rickard Mosell

Senior rådgivare, Ideon

What happens to the future when development and implementation move at different speeds? The courage to unlearn in order to want to learn new things is relevant.

What happens to the future when development and implementation move at different speeds? The courage to unlearn in order to want to learn new things is relevant.

Singapore and the question of what it means to win the future

6 juli 2026

Andreas Johansson

Win the Future, Rise

Dennis Pamlin

Win the Future, Rise

Experiences of common challenges and opportunities for Singapore and Sweden.

Experiences of common challenges and opportunities for Singapore and Sweden.

Robots: from the air to the ground, from Silicon Valley to Sweden

26 mars 2026

Helena Samsioe

VD & Grundare, Globhe

Robots are no longer the future. They are here and now. In different ways, in different places and with different hopes and fears. Blog post by Helena Samsioe, Globhe

Robots are no longer the future. They are here and now. In different ways, in different places and with different hopes and fears. Blog post by Helena Samsioe, Globhe

Last updated 28 November 2025