Trisha Mehta

About

Trisha Mehta is a Design Futurist, Creative Strategist, and Social Entrepreneur. She uses future foresight, speculative design, and other futures methods to explore industrial as well as critical futures. Her expertise in design research and innovation management helps her analyse trends, anticipate signals, and create forward-thinking frameworks that drive change.

Trisha’s thesis project, “Visions for the Future of Mobility” examines the future of mobility in the city of London by 2050, employing both qualitative and quantitative research to develop scenarios that address technological advancements and ecological imperatives. Four distinct scenarios were envisioned to explore a wide range of possible futures- each detailing a specific interplay between technological advancements and ecological imperatives. The 4 scenarios were:

1. Symbiotic Progress: A future where technological and ecological factors synergistically drive positive social and economic change.
2. Innovation in Devastation: A future in which technological factors drive positive social and economic changes but without the consideration of ecological factors.
3. Regeneration Stagnation: A future in which ecological factors drive positive social and economic changes but at the cost of technological progress.
4. Business-As-Usual: A future in which neither ecological nor technological factors drive positive social and economic changes.

This project aims to envision how Mobility products, services and infrastructures in each of these future scenarios might meet industrial design values, and fulfil future needs.