Explored the Future of Industries
Novo Nordisk, Ernst & Young, NASA
Led futures research, design workshops, and prototype explorations across healthcare, mobility, and space gastronomy.
Category / Type
Futures research; speculative design; design strategy; innovation workshops; product prototyping; team training.
Client / Venture / Internal
Client work via Futurity for Novo Nordisk, Ernst & Young, and NASA.
Context
Across Futurity, Lucas worked with major organizations exploring how emerging technologies, behaviors, infrastructures, and cultural shifts could reshape their industries.
The work spanned healthcare, automotive and mobility systems, electric charging infrastructure, architecture, and food systems for space environments. Each engagement used futures thinking as a practical tool: not prediction for its own sake, but a way to help teams prototype, discuss, and act on possible futures.
Wicked Problem
Organizations often know their industries are changing before they know how to respond.
Healthcare teams can see connected devices and patient behavior changing chronic care, but still need prototypes that make those futures tangible. Mobility and architecture teams can see electrification reshaping cities, charging, and transportation, but need shared language and workshop methods to explore consequences. Space organizations can imagine new forms of living beyond Earth, but need ways to make everyday systems like food, ritual, and gastronomy concrete enough to design around.
The deeper challenge was translating future uncertainty into useful creative material: workshops, prototypes, scenarios, and strategic conversations that teams could use to think beyond quarterly constraints without drifting into science fiction theater.
Solution
Futurity used design research, speculative prototyping, and facilitated workshops to help each organization explore futures in a tangible way.
For Novo Nordisk, the work explored future insulin monitoring and device experiences, creating prototypes that made patient and care interactions easier to discuss, critique, and develop.
For Ernst & Young, the work focused on the future of automotive systems, e-charging, and architecture. Lucas helped run a 12-hour workshop series designed to train the team, structure futures thinking, and explore how mobility infrastructure could evolve.
For NASA, the work explored the future of gastronomy in space through workshops with their team, using food as a lens into everyday life, culture, habit, and human experience beyond Earth.
Outcome / Impact
The work gave client teams structured ways to explore uncertain futures, translate emerging signals into design questions, and use prototypes or workshop outputs as material for strategic decision-making.
Prototype exploration for future insulin monitoring and device experiences with Novo Nordisk.
12-hour futures workshop series for Ernst & Young on automotive futures, e-charging, and architecture.
Future of gastronomy workshops with NASA.
Cross-industry futures methods applied to healthcare, mobility, infrastructure, and space life systems.
Role / Contribution
Futures researcher, design strategist, workshop facilitator, and prototype lead via Futurity.
Lucas helped frame the futures questions, facilitate workshops, translate signals into design directions, and create tangible prototypes or workshop outputs that teams could use to reason about what might come next.
Supporting Proof / Artifacts
Novo Nordisk future insulin monitoring/device prototypes.
Ernst & Young automotive, e-charging, and architecture workshop series.
NASA future of gastronomy workshop materials.
Futurity futures research and design strategy practice.
