I run discovery research upstream of R&D and innovation, long in the field, establishing what is shifting before anyone has written a brief for it. The work requires oscillating between individual issues and broader societal challenges at higher levels of complexity.

Financial infrastructure is my current terrain, read at every scale it operates: personal finance, mobile money, neobanks, fast payment systems and digital rails, the cash cycle, sovereign monetary architecture, sovereign AI and the global stacks clearing above all of it. I am futurist in residence at SICPA, where this research runs across four countries.

My work ranges from sense-making and rapid ethnographic deep dives to rich future scenarios and mapping innovation tracks. I have a reputation for uncovering structural issues, framing paradigms and asking new and relevant questions that open up space for change-making.

I also work as a creative director for speculative futures, building worlds with their own rules, artefacts, images and stories, rendered close enough to walk into.

Since 2010 I have been experimenting with generative arts, exploring how AI can enhance creativity, knowledge work, future thinking and discovery research in strategic design. I teach Creative Futures at ECAL.

This is my augmented unlearning journey. My slow-motion blog is here. I am writing a Codex to help designers drive more impact. I am also documenting my strategic design system Wangjitsu. You can see my explorations with AI and images over here.

You can connect with me using my contact page form, by scheduling a call or following me on social media.

Pascal Wicht