Tracking Signals About the Future of Care
We monitor emerging trends, experimental practices, and new ideas that are beginning to reshape the field of care. The Care Radar brings together weak signals, emerging debates, and innovative initiatives from Türkiye and around the world to make possible futures of care more visible.
Care systems are constantly evolving. New technologies, demographic shifts, the climate crisis, changing patterns of work, community-led initiatives, and cultural transformations are reshaping how care is provided, received, and organized. Yet many of these changes are not immediately visible. Major transformations often begin as small signals, experimental practices, or ideas that initially appear marginal.
The Care Radar was created to track these early signs of change.
What Are Weak Signals?
Weak signals are developments that may not yet be widespread but could point toward significant future transformations. A new care model, a local community practice, an emerging technology, a shifting social expectation, or an innovative policy proposal can all be considered weak signals.
A single weak signal cannot predict the future. However, when similar signals begin to emerge across different geographies and sectors, they can offer valuable clues about how care systems may evolve.
Why Do We Track Weak Signals in Care?
Care crises often become visible only after they have already deepened. The ability to respond and adapt depends not only on understanding current challenges but also on recognizing emerging changes before they become mainstream.
That is why we track and document developments related to:
- New forms of organizing care
- Emerging care technologies
- Policy innovations
- Community-based care initiatives
- Cultural and social shifts
- New approaches to the care economy
- Evolving care relationships with non-human beings and the living world
How Can You Use the Care Radar?
The Care Radar organizes signals across a range of care-related themes and focus areas.
Within each thematic area, you can explore recent weak signals, identify emerging trends, and discover new possibilities for the future of care.
Not Predicting the Future, but Imagining It Together
The purpose of the Care Radar is not to predict the future. Rather, it aims to expand our collective imagination by making emerging signals visible and opening space for new conversations about what care could become.
The future of care will not be shaped by technology or policy alone. It will also be shaped by the relationships we build, the practices we cultivate, and the alternatives we are able to imagine together.
We see the Care Radar as a shared space for learning, sense-making, and nurturing collective imagination about the future of care.
