Future Taonga: Creating inclusive futures by design - Chris Jackson
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Chris has just returned from a trip to the US, where he delivered one of the mainstage presentations at the Industrial Designers Society of America. He will present a version of this talk, alongside some reflections on his trip, which took in Chicago, Portland and San Francisco. There will be time for questions and discussion at the end.
"Future Taonga: Creating inclusive futures by design"
In a project with Te Ātiawa – a Māori tribe in New Zealand – we combined tools from futures and design thinking with Tikanga Māori (loosely translated as the Māori ‘way of doing things’), empowering rangatahi (Māori youth) to express their ideas and images of the future.
Through this work, we have learned about designing for inclusion, and the advantages of combining complementary methods with indigenous perspectives to unlock culturally empowering ideas.
We have also experienced how Tikanga Māori has improved our design practice and inspired us to think more holistically, and are looking forward to sharing this work, following our presentation at IDC 2019 in Chicago.
Bio
Chris is Founder and Director of We Create Futures, a globally connected strategic foresight and innovation practice, based in Wellington.
For the last 18 years, Chris has created and led strategy, design and innovation projects across public, private and the third sector. His experience is broad and deep, having been a full-time academic, public servant, working agency-side at DNA and coming full-circle back to running his own business.
He has been part of many successful projects, from creating domestic products with leading manufacturers in Europe and designing award-winning exhibitions, to building co-design capability with communities in Taranaki and re-designing the New Zealand immigration experience.
A design advocate, Chris has keynoted UX Homegrown and spoken at the 2019 International Design Conference (Chicago), UX New Zealand and the Customer Experience and Engagement Summit. He has also delivered talks at Ravensbourne University (London), UTS (Sydney), SAIC (Chicago), Kingston University (London), Raffles Design Institute (Singapore) and Massey University (Wellington).
Chris is always searching for new ways to diversify his perspective and develop his practice. He has learned from some of the best practitioners in an array of fields, including Jan Chipchase, Dave Snowden, Liz Sanders, Sohail Inayatullah, Institute for the Future (IFTF) and most recently completed Seth Godin’s altMBA.
Chris has won 23 individual and team awards given by organisations including IXDA (USA), DINZ (NZ), ICOGRADA (ITALY), ICFF (USA), ADI/FAD (SPAIN), DesignBoom (ITALY), Blueprint/100% Design (UK) and Seth Godin’s altMBA (USA).
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