World Interaction Design Day is an annual event where we come together as a united global community to show how interaction design improves the human condition.
We are taking part in the global initiative and celebrate together with you, our local community, with a very specific take on this year's theme Trust and Responsibility.
📢 The talk: Building Better Worlds
We can’t go on like this. The industrial growth era is, after many centuries, running out of oxygen. Democracy and justice are fraying; automation threatens to redefine the role of the human; climate crisis will forever transform our planet and economies. Neither our infrastructures nor our imaginations are ready for the profound changes ahead.
It’s easy to succumb to fatalism, to feel powerless in the face of a world tipping off its axis. But this is no time for mourning. Designers and technologists will play an essential role in refactoring our outdated institutions and in prototyping positive visions of the future. In the process, we’ll have to reimagine design itself. User-centricity has blinded us to harms befalling society and planet alike, but speculative and futures-leaning approaches can lend us critical, inclusive perspectives on the world’s biggest challenges.
Cennydd Bowles, author of Future Ethics, will describe new responsibilities for design in a world on the brink: embracing the moral duties interwoven into making, becoming planetary custodians, not ransackers, and giving the many, not just the few, a stake in the future. We must not only depict brighter times ahead, but also navigate the hazardous roads that lead us there. Better worlds are possible, if we wish them.
🙋🏻♂️ The speaker
Over a sixteen-year career, Cennydd Bowles has written two popular books ('Future Ethics' and 'Undercover User Experience Design'), led design at Twitter UK, and established a reputation as a global leader in digital product and UX design. As an independent consultant, he has worked with clients including the BBC, Samsung, WWF, Cisco, and Ford.
Cennydd’s focus today is the ethics of emerging technology.
⏱ The agenda
18.00
Doors open, mingle and snacks
18.30
Talk :: Building Better Worlds :: Cennydd Bowles
19.10
Break
19.30
Panel discussion on Trust and Responsibility, moderated by Guro Røberg, with
Cennydd Bowles, on ethics of emerging technology
Anja Schönhaug, on privacy and equality
Bente Kalsnes, on news and information
Josina Vink, on reshaping social structures through design
