This innovative tool will help anyone concerned with trying to anticipate and respond to the challenges facing the world - from software designers to civil engineers, architects to executives. What will the world look like in 2050? How secure is your water supply? Can we all be consumers? When does waste become a resource? These are just some of the provocative questions posed by this collection of cards focused on why and how our world is changing.

Conceived and designed by the Foresight, Innovation and Incubation team at Arup, the influential consulting firm that advises on all aspects of the built environment, this card set features seven topics that have been chosen as headings for further discussion: energy, waste, climate change, water, demographics, urbanization and poverty. The 189 cards are divided into five domains known as the STEEP framework: societal, technological, economic, environmental, and political. Each card represents a single driver of change—for instance urban migration, ageing population, austerity—along with a challenging and thoughtprovoking question. The flip side of the card provides pertinent data to expand on the question.