This research addresses the crucial role of the industrial sector in achieving a sustainable future amid escalating anthropogenic pressures. The study explores a Technology Center's perspective on and understanding of the future through two visual design workshops centered around the center's visualizations. The results show that, in the Technology Center, the current understanding of the visualizations in relation to the future is shaped by the idea of the visualizations as a support for making (new) things, for example new technologies, robots, systems for human-machine interactions, physical and digital spaces for industrial development. The results also show that the stories around a sustainable future evolved around economic and social sustainability, yet the narratives around the environmental aspects are less predominant. The paper contributes valuable knowledge at the intersection of sustainability, design, and industry.
Keywords: visualization, sustainable future, visual design method, manufacturing