Designing for an uncertain future
Details
Tickets available (for free) at 12pm (BST) 20th May a week before the event as usual. Zoom details will be sent via meetup messages prior to the event.
Important note to attendees:
Come early, first 100 spots available.
6:50pm Open
7:00pm Start
9:00-9:15pm End
A small break in between, all in BST time.
If you are unable to attend please release your ticket so people in the waiting list can join. Look forward to seeing you tonight!
Warmest regards.
--- The event ---
We are back this month with another Strategic Design themed evening. Shorter and sharper than before.
COVID-19 is an awakening call; we see vividly how it's changing our behaviours and the world around us. As designers, we are curious to know what we can do, how we design for this unprecedented time, and even more importantly, foresee what kind of future that we are designing for.
Our speakers will go back to the basics - Needs, Insights and Foresights, sharing their point of view to navigate through this ambiguity and better equipped to design for the future to come.
This event has been curated by Jill Lin and will feature speakers (bio below) with different perspectives in this space, talking about the key to design for today & prepare for tomorrow, design and value in the post normal futures, and how we move forward in the face of adversity.
--- Our Speakers & Curator ---
Jill Lin, Bain & Company (Guest Curator)
Jill is a strategic and visionary ex-Experience Director with over a decade of experience. She currently works for Bain & Company as their most senior Designer in EMEA.
Throughout her career she has been designing interactions in the intersection of people, products and environments; she brings out incremental and revolutionary changes for people she designs for and empowers them to do what they love.
She's worked in London, New York, UAE and Taiwan. Her clients include BP, BT, Sony, Google, Scottish Power, Tiffany & Co., Kellogg's, JLR, Macquarie, Lloyds, Barclays and more.
Twitter: @jillybeanlin
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Sami Niemelä, Nordkapp
Sami is a strategic designer working at the intersection of systems, foresight and design. During over 20 years in the industry, he has worked on several continents, earning himself international patents, numerous awards and has built into exits to the largest companies in the world.
Currently, he is one of the founders and the creative director at Nordkapp, a strategic design and innovation consultancy based in Helsinki and Amsterdam, and working globally. He is also an exhibited artist exploring the combination of humans, rapid manufacturing and generative networks and machine learning, and a member of the board at IxDA — Interaction Design Association.
Twitter: @samin
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Tom Savigar, Avansere AS
For two decades, Tom has been making a better future happen for the world’s best known corporations. However, more often than not, even the best foresight, strategies and innovations to deliver positive social and environmental impact lie on the shelf unused, or worse still on the workshop room floor. To tackle this, launched at the dawn of the 2020s, Tom now runs his own venture Avansere AS.
Foresight. Directions. Models. Guidance. Like a mountain guide — Avansere specialises in moving people forwards in a purposeful way, with an emphasis on ensuring they succeed by exceeding human and environmental needs. Do you understand what’s going to happen? Are you moving in the right direction? Will your moves now be true to your long term vision? Forward movement, no matter what.
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Thanks, look forward to seeing you there!
IxDA team