The assignment was to make a prediction of long term and short term trend of the the topic "4th wave of Feminism" by researching the topic and taking any one aspect or multiple aspects of it to making two fashion/lifestyle predictions that can be valid at
a) 2 years (short term forecasting)
b) at 5 years (long term forecasting).
The process of doing the assignment:
1. Creating a collection of articles/trends/news/products
2. Watching what trend is emerging from them
3. Doing a cross cultural analysis
4. Creating a virtual or real evidence wall
5. Confirming the three times rule
6. Speaking to three people for an expert panel
7. Writing a trend thesis
8. Doing a deep dive about the trend with 10 people.
9. Creating a trend cartogram
10. Making two predictions, one for 2 years Trend Forecasting and the other for 5 years forecasting
by naming the trend and explaining it.
Marking out its constituent elements and creating a trend Cartogram.
