CAPTURED
Complexity Appropriate Participatory Techniques Utilised for Reimagining Energy policy Design (CAPTURED) is a Futures Study on UK’s green economy transition. Using Horizon Scanning & Futures Cone in participatory settings, experts across sectors identified transition challenges and opportunities.
Overview of CAPTURED
Project team
Dr Kavin Narasimhan Link opens in a new windowis the Principal Investigator with a wonderful and exciting team of Collaborators, Dr Sumedha Basu Link opens in a new window& Dr Catherine Bale Link opens in a new windowfrom the University of Leeds, Research Assistant Andra SoneaLink opens in a new window, PGT Research Assistants Peter Iziomo and Daniel Tones, and Associate Director (Business Partnerships) Penny Triantafillou Link opens in a new windowfrom the University of Warwick.
Snapshots of CAPTURED journey - Lightning Talks (Workshop 1); Project team (Workshop 1); Experts and project team (Workshop 2); Experts brainstorming futures (Workshop 2)
CAPTURED used a participatory futures study approach to investigate potential transitions in the UK Green economy from 2025 to 2050.
We held two full-day participatory workshops at Scarman, Warwick Conferences Link opens in a new windowin March and May 2025. Participants included experts come from across central, regional, and local government, industry, and academia. Ahead of the workshops, participants completed an online survey, where they reviewed green economy signals and trends identified by the project team through desk research. Survey responses helped refine three key thematic areas for further exploration.
At the first Horizon Scanning workshop, participants took part in a multi-stage elicitation process, discussing seed documents prepared by the project team on the shortlisted themes. Together, they identified signals, trends, potential wildcards, risks, and opportunities across Social, Technological, Economical, Environmental, and Political dimensions.
In a second workshop, we applied a Futures Cone approach. Building on current trends and signals, participants (re)imagined the UK's green economy in 2050 through a spectrum of potential, plausible, and possible trajectories.
Our futures inquiry suggests many opportunities and likely challenges that lie ahead for the UK's green economy. We expect to publish the CAPTURED project report towards the end of 2025 - please watch this space!