////Prepare//// Alex Mcintosh, James Tooze, Tomas Diez & Tobias Revell

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The guests for this for this meetup all run future facing courses so this will be a debate around different approaches to teaching futures thinking. The speakers will partly to talk about their courses/platforms but also about where they want their courses to go and the dream project to come out of the courses they are creating.

The presentations will short and we'll try to keep to 20 mins per talk 10-15 mins for presentations and 5-10 for questions. At the end we'll have a group discussion of 20 mins so the whole evening should be 90 mins. Then we'll finish in the pub, usually the Hare on Mare Street.

There are only 30 places for this meet up so please only accept invitation if you will definitely come and let the organisers know if you cannot make it. Thank you!

Alex McIntosh, Course Director - Fashion Futures at London College of Fashion
http://www.arts.ac.uk/fashion/courses/postgraduate/ma-fashion-futures/
Alex is a long-standing member of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Managing Director of the pioneering menswear brand Christopher Raeburn. His research interests revolve around the exploration of business models that nurture sustainable innovation, community engagement and creative thinking.

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Tobias Revell, Course Leader, BA (Hons) Information and Interface Design http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-information-and-interface-design/

His teaching focuses on working across design disciplines, particularly with speculative and critical techniques such as diegetics and design fictions to engage students critically in the wider effects and contexts of their work. He also works from a strong technical background being an experienced film maker and interactive artist.

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James Tooze & Tomas Diez, Senior Tutors RCA design products: Exploring Emergent Futures Platformhttp://www.rca.ac.uk/schools/school-of-design/design-products/?page=2

Tomas Diez is a Venezuelan-born urbanist, who specialises in digital fabrication and its implications on future cities. He is co-founder of the Smart Citizen project and StudioP52 in Barcelona, and director of Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, one of the main fabrication laboratories of the MIT global network.

James Tooze (FRSA) is Senior Tutor in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. He is a designer and researcher, with his research, both commercial and academic, focusing on three interwoven areas: open design, open fabrication and digital manufacturing.

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