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Micro Trends

Dirt as Dissent

Crafted dirt is re-emerging as fashion’s language of dissent, resisting disposability and digital polish through soil, stains and the marks of huma...

Fashion : Beauty : Luxury

Big Ideas

Muscle Longevity

As Longevity Lifestyles evolve, consumers are increasingly focused on building and preserving muscle health well into later life.

Technology : Health & Wellness : Design

Micro Trends

Mood-matching Fashion

Emotionally attuned styling and shopping tools are reshaping fashion discovery, helping consumers to move away from keyword and product searches to...

Retail : Technology : Fashion

Daily Signals

Adolescence extends to early 30s, new five-stage brain map reveals

New research mapping how the brain’s wiring shifts across life suggests adolescence doesn’t end until around age 32.

Generations : Adolescence : Life Stages

Daily Signals

Stat: High earners no longer feel rich as UK wealth perceptions shift

According to a new wealth survey by Times Money and YouGov, just 21% of Britons earning more than £125,000 ($164,5000, €142,085) a year consid...

Wealth : Society : Statistic

Daily Signals

Stat: Gen Z lead European travel boom with highest spending and trip frequency

Gen Z are driving a significant surge in European travel, outspending and out-travelling all other generations, according to MMGY’s 2025 Portrait o...

Travel

Daily Signals

Stat: Study finds generative AI attacks are on the rise

Generative AI is fuelling a sharp rise in cyberattacks, with 62% of organisations hit by deepfake incidents in a 12-month period, according to ...

Stats : Statistic : AI

Daily Signals

Stat: Girls’ sport participation could unlock leadership potential at work

Girls who play extracurricular sport in the UK are 50% more likely to go on to achieve senior professional roles at work, according to Game Changin...

Sport : Women's Sports : Teenage Girls

Daily Signals

Stat: Hobbycraft and Mind study links crafts to better mental health

A new survey from Hobbycraft and mental health charity Mind has revealed that 72% of people believe healthcare experts should recommend arts and cr...

Hobbycraft : Mind UK : Mental Wellbeing

Daily Signals

Student designs retrofit innovation that turns rain into water for toilets

Northumbria University graduate Hope Underwood has developed a retrofit rainwater harvesting kit designed to cut UK household water bills and reduc...

Sustainability : Retrofitting : Home

Daily Signals

Peachy Den and Adidas spotlight the enduring power of female sporting legends

British fashion label Peachy Den has teamed up with global sportswear giant Adidas to re-imagine the bold spirit of 1980s and 1990s football kits, ...

Fashion : Sports : Adidas

Daily Signals

Rare Beauty launches debut fragrance and customisable layering balms

Rare Beauty has entered the fragrance market with a debut scent that reflects its feel-good ethos.

Beauty : Fragrance : Rare Beauty

Markets

Communal Living Market

Once a fringe experiment, communal living is entering the mainstream. From multigenerational households to co-buying with friends, people are redef...

Future Spaces : Society : Health & Wellness

Markets

Luxury Train Travel

Upmarket rail holidays are becoming a channel for storytelling, ecological responsibility and prestige tourism, driven by younger wealthy audiences...

Luxury : Travel & Hospitality : Design

Big Ideas

Web Summit 2025: Tech’s new era of resistance

Web Summit 2025 marked a shift in tech zeitgeist, with start-ups, creators and sports innovators showing how tech is breaking old rules and buildin...

Web Summit 2025 : Technology : Start-ups

Daily Signals

Dutch Design Week 2025: kidult aesthetics and serious play

On a rainy day in Eindhoven, the design capital of The Netherlands, artists and designers showed us something that really makes us human, that sets...

Design : Dutch Design Week : Play

Micro Trends

Equitable Energy Futures

As reliance on non-renewables becomes increasingly unsustainable, green energy will turn into a resource that local communities must learn to harve...

Design : Sustainability : Society

Big Ideas

New Ways of Seeing 2025: Embracing Multiplicity in Modern Creativity

For the cross-pollination of ideas and alternative viewpoints, look no further than New Ways of Seeing 2025, a festival of creative thinking spanni...

Design : Culture & Media : Technology

Behaviours

Luxury Hospitality’s AI Opportunity: Future:Poll

Our latest Future:Poll report reveals the attitudes of luxury travellers in the UK and US towards the integration of technology and AI in high-end ...

Luxury : Technology : Hospitality

Daily Signals

Stat: Gen Z women in the UK feel the sharpest gender tensions

New research from King’s College London and Ipsos suggests that while public discourse often frames gender as a battleground, most citize...

Society : Gender : Statistic

Daily Signals

Foresight Friday: Maria Blanco, project manager

Every Friday, The Future Laboratory team offers an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, ...

Technology : Music : Culture

Big Ideas

Global Wellness Summit 2025: Everyday Longevity

This year’s Global Wellness Summit challenged thought leaders to explore how the £5.2 trillion wellbeing economy can translate its scale into ...

Health : Wellness : Hospitality

Markets

ADHD and the Attention Economy

Soaring ADHD diagnoses are fuelling demand for non-medicinal interventions, with therapeutic gaming, functional music and non-invasive nerve stimul...

Design : Health & Wellness : Technology

Big Ideas

Dutch Design Week 2025: Designing for Humanity

Dutch Design Week 2025 showcased how designers are using empathy, play and care as tools to shape more human-centred futures in a tech-driven world.

Design : Health & Wellness : Technology

Micro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2025: Collagen’s New Frontiers

Growing alongside collagen’s strong foothold in the beauty, health and supplements categories, a new wave of collagen-infused products is making a ...

Food & Drink : Beauty : Health & Wellness

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