Early signs of change.
Possible futures for social work.
Signal scanning is a strategic foresight practice for identifying emerging changes before their implications are fully understood. This library documents signals explored from a social work futures perspective, including my own and those shared by the broader social work community. I invite you to share a signal, because futuring is done best when it’s done in community.
What is changing?
Why might it matter for social work?
What should we keep watching?
Signals Library
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About the Library
Signal scanning is a strategic foresight practice for noticing early or emerging changes that may have implications for possible futures. Signals are not predictions. They are concrete developments worth watching, questioning, and revisiting.
Notice
Start with a specific development that suggests something may be changing.
Consider
Ask what it could mean for people, communities, systems, and the futures of social work.
Revisit
Return over time to see whether the signal is strengthening, fading, or evolving into something larger.