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The future is here, and it's weirder than you think.  In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization, we're tearing down the illusions of certainty and exposing the brutal reality of exponential change with global futurist and author John Sanei. AI, blockchain, quantum computing—if you have time to catch up, think again. Our obsession with efficiency and outdated thinking is dragging us down, while the future demands adaptability, experimentation, and a whole new way of leading. It's time to unlearn everything you thought you knew, ditch the fear, and start shaping what's next—before it shapes you. No fluff. No hand-holding. Just raw, unfiltered insights to help you stay relevant in a world evolving at breakneck speed. Key Insights: - The Challenge of Adapting to Exponential Change "Our educational system over the last 200 years has prioritized efficiency and repetition over any sort of adaptability and experimentation." - The Importance of Unlearning and Cultivating Adaptability: "The only thing that we're hearing is that AI is coming to eat our lunch right before our eyes. So we're a little bit petrified by that." - The Power of Future Memories: “Neuroscience is proving to us that we have between 60 to 70,000 thoughts a day and our brains have calcified into a personality trait and personality type by the time we're 35 years old." About John Sanei John is a global futurist, best-selling author, and has been recognized as one of the world's Top 10 Futurist Professionals of 2024. With 11 books to his name - 5 of them best-sellers - John helps Fortune 100 companies, governments, and royal families rethink the future and navigate human-A.I dynamics. He's the co-host of the 2x award-winning podcast The Expansive, a contributor to NASA's Vision 2040 project (yes, the one building a self-sustained city on the moon). He serves on the faculty at Singularity University, Duke Corporate Education, and the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.  

On this episode of Looking Outside, we explore emerging risk - those issues seemingly in the further out future that we chose not to prioritize, act on, or perhaps even take seriously. Joining us is trained economist turned futurist, and CEO of futures think thank and advisory, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Daria (Dasha) Krivonos. Having led strategic risk management at Maersk (up until recently, one of the world's biggest shipping companies), Dasha is no stranger to risk mitigation and anticipation, nor to seeing how bias and emotions feed into how risks are handled. Dasha shares how optimism is normal state of the human condition, but that a false sense of optimism for one safe and preferred future, with blinders on to emerging risks in the periphery, can be detriment to a business, even negligent. ----------More:Looking Outside podcast www.looking-outside.comFollow Dasha on LinkedIn & XCopenhagen Institute for Futures Studies https://cifs.dkCIFS Seminars on YouTube @CIFSonline Connect with host, Jo Lepore----------⭐ Follow, like and rate the show - it makes a difference!----------Looking Outside is a podcast exploring fresh perspectives of familiar topics. Hosted by its creator, futurist and marketer, Jo Lepore. New episodes every 2 weeks. Never the same topic.All views are that of the host and guests and don't necessarily reflect those of their employers. Copyright 2024. Theme song by Azteca X.

Work for Humans has always been about designing with the employee in mind, but many designers mistakenly focus on objects rather than the actions those objects should create. This leads to falling back on traditional roles and routines when there is actually more choice out there. Inspired by the power of designing for action instead of things, WFH connected with Stephanie Goia and Melanie Kahl—two design strategists dedicated to human-centered organizational design. Together, they're creating a pattern language library, offering a resource that encourages more choice and innovation to all designers.In this episode, Dart, Stephanie, and Melanie discuss:- Human-centered organizational design practice- Pattern language in design- Designing for verbs instead of things- What is designable and what isn't- 5 key categories of pattern language- Design lessons from education and biological systems- Holding spaces for participatory design- And other topics…Stephanie Goia is a partner and lead design strategist at Future Work Design, a firm dedicated to transforming workplaces through innovative design. With over 15 years of experience in consulting and education, she specializes in organizational design and human-centered practices. Stephanie also serves as the Lab Director of EitherOrg and as an Executive MBA instructor at the University of Oregon, where she furthers her commitment to participatory design and systemic change. Melanie Kahl is an innovation leader and strategist with over 15 years of experience designing programs and spaces that foster human flourishing. She previously launched Meta's first Community-in-Residence program and led projects with global organizations like the Gates Foundation and USAID. Melanie holds a degree from Northwestern University and is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts and the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.Resources mentioned:Seeing Like a State, by James Scott: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp/0300078153 A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander: https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199 Dark Matter Labs: https://darkmatterlabs.org/ The Edge of the Sea, by Rachel Carson: https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Sea-Rachel-Carson/dp/0395924960 Connect with Stephanie & Melanie:www.futurework.designwww.eitherorg.orgStephanie LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniegioia/www.MelanieKahl.comMelanie's Instagram: @melanie_kahlMelanie's X: @melaniekahl

Series Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Jonas Gissel Mikkelsen, Futurist and Director at The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, where he heads up business development. Jonas is responsible for creating new initiatives, collaborations and joint-ventures, as well as overseeing publications and managing the Institute's brand & identity.  His primary competencies lie within an abstract ability to create prototypal ideas and an understanding of the larger perspective of initiatives re: the externalities and long-term effects. So, we discuss all of the above, with a particular focus on strategic transformation, Non-Profits and Civic Society. But before all that, we discuss his first job after leaving University...

With the recent approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by the SEC, it's important that we have an educated understanding of what that means for the future of digital money. I couldn't think of a better person to help us explore this than my dear friend, JoAnn Holes, an IP & digital assets attorney and Web 3 advisor. She comes with a wealth of knowledge about ETFs and breaks it down in a way we can easily understand. This week, episode 193 of the Tech Intersect™ Podcast is about Understanding Bitcoin ETFs!  POWERED BY ADVANTAGE EVANS™ ACADEMY Navigate your way from cash to crypto with Digital Money Demystified. Dive into the definitive guide on crypto myths and truths by Professor Tonya M. Evans. This isn't just a book; it's a roadmap to the decentralized web's future of work, wealth, and creativity. Head over to DigitalMoneyDemystified.com and embark on your crypto journey today! JoAnn Holmes, Esq. (“Jo") is an IP & digital assets attorney, Web3 advisor and founder of Holmes@Law.  She consults with business leaders globally to navigate evolving Web3 legal and regulatory risks, and help clients leverage blockchain technologies into revenue ecosystems. With expansive experience as Outside General Counsel to international brands and tech companies, Jo has overseen multi-billion dollar intangible asset portfolios spanning more than 150 countries.  And, she's consistently closed lucrative agreements with IP innovators like Disney, Microsoft and the NFL. Jo serves on the inaugural Blockchain Law for Social Good Center board, is a contributing digital assets expert for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and is featured among the global Top 100 Women of the Future™.  She regularly advises elite accelerators like Techstars, Dapper Labs and the Atlanta Blockchain Center. Topics JoAnn and I go over in this episode include:The basics of ETFs and Bitcoin, including different providers and fee structures.The importance of education and learning in the digital asset space, and the opportunities for inclusion in the market.The potential of blockchain to revolutionize the way IP is managed and monetized, as well as the challenges and opportunities it presents.The importance of education and understanding in the blockchain space and provide valuable resources for further learning.CONNECT WITH JOANN HOLMES:WebsiteLinkedInCONNECT WITH DR. TONYA M. EVANS:Follow: Twitter @AtTechIntersect | Instagram @TechIntersect Web: Tech Intersect Podcast  Connect for exclusive content: https://advantageevans.activehosted.com/f/6 RESOURCES:Buy the Book + Leave 5 Star Review Digital Money DemystifiedConsulting, Courses and CommStart separating crypto fact from fiction today. Get your copy of , Digital Money Demystified, and start learning so you can earn safely, legally and confidently. https://digitalmoneydemystified.comRegulate & The Rabbit Hole by Notty Prod licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Produced by Tonya M. Evans for Advantage Evans, LLC

Byens Podcast stiller skarpt på principperne bag det regenerative tankesæt. Hvad er det? Og hvor kan det rykke os hen som organisationer, ledere og medarbejdere? Vi har spurgt en fremtidsforsker, en biolog, en arkitekt og en byudvikler. Hvordan kan vi – med inspiration fra naturen – udvikle vores organisationer og samarbejdskulturer, så vi ud fra et mere regenerativt tankesæt giver mere end vi tager? Sammen med Nikolaj Sveistrup fra Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies undersøger vi det nye ledelsesparadigme og hører, hvordan omstillingen fra lineær til regenerativ ser ud for henholdsvis en arkitekt, en biolog og en byudvikler? Hvilke nødvendige forandringer og kompetencer kræver det? Og hvordan bygger vi et fælles fundament? I panelet kan du møde: Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov, Head of Innovation, EFFEKT Kristine Kjørup Rasmussen, biodiversitetsudvikler, biolog, ph.d., OIKO Anette Krarup, adm. direktør & udvikler i Generous Gæstevært i Byens Podcast: Nikolaj Sveistrup, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies

In this episode, we talk to Jeff De Cagna, FASAE, a respected contrarian thinker on the future of associating and associations. Join us for a conversation about how boards should safeguard their members and successors from technological harm, the importance of ethical decision-making before implementing generative AI, the need for regulation of AI and the role of associations in that policy making, and everyone's role as an AI ethicist. Show notes Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, executive advisor for Foresight First LLC in Reston, Virginia, is an association contrarian, foresight practitioner, governing designer, stakeholder/successor advocate, and stewardship catalyst. In his work, Jeff advises association and non-profit boards on how they can set a higher standard of stewardship, governing, and foresight [SGF].    A graduate of the Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities, Jeff has continued his learning with the future at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Oxford University, Harvard Business School, the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, BoardSource, the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, and the Institute for the Future.    Jeff is the 32nd recipient of ASAE's Academy of Leaders Award, the association's highest individual honor given to consultants or industry partners in recognition of their support of ASAE and the association community.   Additional reading: We Are All AI Ethicists Now (VSAE Blog) Association Boards and Technological Harm: Part I Association Boards and Technological Harm: Part II   To register for the VSAE Nov. 2 session with Jeff, visit here. This podcast is produced by Association Briefings.

In this month's podcast, David Somekh of the EHFF and Caroline Whyte spoke with Bogi Eliasen, the Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). Bogi initiated the Nordic Health 2030 process and has a key role in both the global Future Proofing Health Index and Movement Health 2030, that aspires to improve health by applying a new health paradigm. His current focus is facilitating the shift and building bridges between the fields of personal and public health. He calls himself a knowledge broker, whose expertise lies in combining various fields of knowledge. Conversation topics included whether the goal of healthcare should be to have a good healthcare service or good health, how to support the 90% in living more healthily and sustainably, the best measurements of health to use in Wellbeing Frameworks, and the fact that countries are a social construction and we need global action.

In this week's episode, Sara explores how augmented reality and spatial computing will redefine the boundaries and opportunities of interaction between humans and machines with Pierluigi Dalla Rosa.Pierluigi Dalla Rosa is an accomplished designer who is at the forefront of shaping the future of computing. He has a proven track record at renowned companies such as Apple, NIO, Panasonic, and Philips. Additionally, he serves as a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and the California College of the Arts. Passionate about unlocking human creative potential and developing tools for thought, Pierluigi explores the realms of collective and spatial computing, continuously pushing the boundaries of interfaces and interactions beyond conventional screens. His expertise lies at the intersection of animation, film, physical matter, and software.00:00 Intro03:07 What is spatial computing?06:54 Challenges in designing AR headsets09:40 How to leverage augmented reality to create a business13:25 How to approach existing concepts in new ways to seize opportunities16:41 Other areas of application for spatial computing20:12 Apple's secret to success and what it's like to work for the company24:57 Insider frameworks and thinking principles29:09 How technology shapes us more than the other way around

Today Mariel & Melissa welcome back Futurist John Sanei to talk about the Future of Work. John Sanei is a highly acclaimed futures strategist, best-selling author, global keynote speaker, Singularity University and Duke Corporate Education faculty member, and an associate partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. John is a transformation specialist and bold change-maker. If you run a small business, a large business, or a business of any size, including your home, you don't want to miss what John has to say today about THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS. John has his finger on the pulse of technology, neuroscience, and business strategy whose cutting-edge ideas will lead you and your team into a bold, new tomorrow. Website: JohnSanei.com johnsanei.com Linktree: JohnSanei - linktr.ee/JohnSanei Instagram: @johnsanei Facebook: JohnSaneiInc - facebook.com/JOHNSANEIINC TikTok: @johnsanei Twitter: IAmJohnSanei Hosts - Mariel Hemingway & Melissa Yamaguchi
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Series ThreeThis episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Lasse Jonasson, Director & Futurist at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) where he also heads their advisory service. CIFS is a global leader in applying futures studies methodologies to solve strategic challenges within organisations. Their core advisory offerings include megatrend analysis, scenario planning, risk assessment, innovation processes, and strategic foresight. The Institute is a truly global entity, working for and with public, private, and academic organisations around the world. This includes governments and Fortune 500 companies, to startups and NGOs, on a strategic level. Therefore, and as you'll hear, we discuss a wide range of subjects, ranging from the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism to the Future of HR, alongside issues such as navigating complexity and the dynamics of change. And, of course, some implications of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan/Ernie get highlighted...

Mariel & Melissa welcome the incredible John Sanei. John is a highly acclaimed futures strategist, best-selling author, global keynote speaker, Singularity University and Duke Corporate Education faculty member, associate partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, a transformation specialist, and a bold change maker. John Sanei is: A Futures Strategist An Acclaimed keynote speaker An Advisor to the world's leading Fortune 100 companies A 5 x best-selling author And the Co-host of The Expansive Business podcast. John's Website: JohnSanei.com (https://johnsanei.com/) Social Media Handles: Find all of John's social media handles on Linktree: JohnSanei (https://linktr.ee/JohnSanei)

John Sanei is not only revolutionising the way we approach the future, but he is also equipping us with the courage and determination needed to bring about lasting change.Globally renowned keynote speaker, futures strategist, 5-time bestselling author, Singularity University and Duke CE faculty member, Associate Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, Chief of Tomorrow Board Member, and podcaster at The Expansive – Book - Who do we become - self evolutionWith a unique blend of neuroscience, psychology, quantum science, business strategy, and futurism, John delivers talks, writes books, conducts masterclasses, and serves on boards to guide future-minded leaders who are willing to embrace uncertainty, overcome doubt, and rise to the challenge with courage, clarity, and determination.Ross and John talk about priorities, change, seeing things differently, teaching, self reflection, meditation retreats, emotional blockages, accessing your genius, achievements, curiosity, dealing with trauma, Elizabeth Gilbert, stress, holding light inside yourself, scaring audiences, the psychology of change, evolving, following systems, uniqueness, making our brains mailable, Einstein, significant jumps in human intelligence, brain states, psychedelics, imagination, education, catastrophising, deadlines, alpha and beta brainwaves, addictions to panic, adaptability, arrogance, bad states, mindset, hyper awareness, energy, mental flexibility, mood, our bodies, deep futures, neuroscience, the future, biases, technology scams, physical 100, responsibility, curiosity, excitement, leaving nobody behind, valuing questions, imagination, slums, education and profound happiness.Timecodes:00:35 John's bio02:08 John's spark from transition and mindset to making a greater impact05:01 Practical changes during the transition09:07 Hardware and software upgrades we need as humanity17:04 Following systems22:01 Embracing AI while under pressure from it28:08 Research John is doing right now33:53 Explosions of creativity and living books36:52 Digital dictatorships and blockchain democracies42:14 Hope44:06 The last time John did something for the first timeConnect with John:LinkedInWebsiteTwitterInstagramTikTokhello@johnsanei.comConnect with Ross:WebsiteLinkedInMoonshot Innovation 

Julia DeBari shares her experience as a design recruiter,  how to navigate compensation and benefits, and what to ask to work out if a role is right for you. Highlights include: Why are recruiters told not to disclose salary ranges? When and how should you bring up compensation? Why should you invite doubt into a hiring conversation? What do designers need to know about recruitment? Why ask interviewers what makes them proud of their company? ====== Who is Julia DeBari? Julia is the head of design operations for the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, where she's busy helping the design practice to be more effective and efficient. Before joining the Institute, Julia worked as a freelance design program manager focused on improving onboarding and education. Her clients included the Interaction Design Foundation, LinkedIn and The Hired Guns. Julia's career in UX began at the dawn of the millennium, as an interaction designer for a Dutch company called Internovation. Since then, she has worked across startups, enterprise, and agency, including at Adobe, MRM Worldwide, Razorfish, Sapient, and Dell. One of Julia's great passions is design education and most recently she was the lead design educator at Flatiron School. Across the years she's also been a design educator at Product School, UC Berkley Extension, Design Assembly and GrowthX Academy. ====== Find Julia here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliadebari/ Website: https://www.juliad.com/ ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

How can we reimagine our cities for a regenerative transformation? To regenerate means not only to do less harm, but to become a positive force that restores, renews, and regrows. In this special episode of the Nordic Talks podcast, recorded at COP27 in Egypt, we will explore how we can create a regenerative world that works within the planetary boundaries. How do we create a future where humankind, nature and our cities can all thrive and flourish? Participants in the discussion are Nikolaj Sveistrup, Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies, and Jo da Silva, Sustainable Director at ARUP. The talk is moderated by André Jamholt, Senior Advisor at the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Let's get sci-fi! This week, Tristra Newyear Yeagar sits down with bonafide futurist Sofie Hvitved to explore the future of music and tech. Dive into Sofie's role as senior advisor of media and technology at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies, consulting with clients to explore future possibilities. Find out how history, momentum, and current events influence possible future scenarios. Discover how the metaverse is providing new infrastructure and shifting our understanding of value. Imagine a future of tailored user experiences powered by AI. Learn how to fail like a boss and unleash your curiosity. How can the music industry embrace the future? Find out on this week's episode.    The Music Tectonics podcast goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the way business gets done. Visit MusicTectonics.com to learn more, and find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Let us know what you think!

Can a four-day work week work in rural healthcare? This week, we are having a conversation with Monica Bourgeau, a futurist and CEO of New Phase Partners. Monica shares her experiences as a futurist and the changes that rural health leaders should expect. “When I look at leadership, the most important thing to me is being able to create a vision for the future and then being able to share that vision” -Monica Bourgeau Monica Bourgeau, MS is a futurist, award-winning author, and CEO of New Phase Partners, a consulting firm specializing in Future of Work strategies, planning, leadership coaching, and training. Monica has nearly twenty-five years of experience in healthcare leadership positions, including nearly ten years leading national rural healthcare transformation programs, business development, and strategy.  She has a master's degree in Management with an emphasis on Organizational Leadership from Warner Pacific University, a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Colorado State University, and completed the MBA Foundations program at the University of Montana. She has studied futures thinking at MIT, Future I/O, and the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. When she's not working, you'll find Monica walking on the Oregon coast, snuggling her rescue dogs, and spending time with her family. Monica believes we each have a duty to leave the world a little better than we found it.  You can learn more at www.NewPhasePartners.com or www.LinkedIn.com/In/MonicaBourgeau.

Human life is expressed on the scale of time, and those who have come to understand this tend to bend time to their advantage. Humanity is a native of time, and on that strength, you will think all of us should understand this and take advantage of time; obviously, this is not the case. Within this nativity, only a given few have, through discerning and practice, come to make time work for them in making their living count and profitable.Our perception and the interpretation of time have come under two categories looking at the journey of time; Kairos and Chronos. One describes the quality of time, while the other points to its quantity, all set within the framework of purpose.From the history books, the Sumerians have been known to have done so much on the concept of time.Sumerians Looked to the Heavens as They Invented the System of Time, And We Still Use it today. One might find it curious that we divide the hours into 60 minutes and the days into 24 hours - why not a multiple of 10 or 12? Put quite simply, the answer is because the inventors of time did not operate on a decimal (base-10) or duodecimal (base-12) system but on a sexagesimal (base-60) system. For the ancient Sumerian innovators who first divided the heavens' movements into countable intervals, 60 was the perfect number. The number 60 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30 equal parts. Moreover, ancient astronomers believed there were 360 ​​days in a year, a number which 60 fits neatly into six times. The Sumerian Empire did not last. However, for more than 5,000 years, the world has remained committed to its delineation of time. (@Emine Fougner International Best Selling Author: Romance Genre in English & Portuguese - Echoes in Eternity.)Undeniably, we are bound by time and are subject to its leadership. One unique expression of the concept of time in human civilization is the differentiation of time into the frame of past, present, and future based on experiences.This differentiation of time has come to guide how decisions are made in planning and executing programs. We see how people describe their lives in this sequence, I am walking from the past, using the buffer of now, the present, to run into my future. I just can't wait for the future. So I ask, is the future a place, an event, or something we are yet to become. The above is the focus of this episode of the Word Café. I am so happy to be discussing this with John Sanei.John Sanei is Africa's first-ever Singularity University faculty member, Associate Partner at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and a faculty member at Duke CE. He is a futures strategist and globally-acclaimed keynote speaker. He doesn't just think, write and talk about the future. He empowers executives, leaders, and organisations to do the same, using a dynamic mix of psychology, quantum technology, business strategy, and futurism to drive lasting change. A 4x bestselling author and co-host at The Expansive - one of SA's top business podcasts, John's helped countless executives, entrepreneurs, and go-getters to transform fear and uncertainty into excitement and action. John's masterclasses and keynotes are a must for future-forward leaders who are ready to lean into uncertainty and doubt, to rise with courage, clarity, and power.Support the show

This episode of the podcast is about futures thinking - and the approach and toolbox.The guest on the podcast is Carsten Beck, a Danish futurist. He has been working with trend analysis and scenario processes as a Director of research at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies for more than 30 years in more than 30 countries. Carsten strives to help us understand how global and local trends shape the future for organizations, companies, and societies. His focus is how to drive processes for clients in order for THEM to prepare for the future.Today's co-host is Martin Ellemann Olesen, Co-Founder at Good Morning April - and host for this season is Erik Korsvik Østergaard, also Co-Founder at Good Morning April. 

In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Tamira Snell, Senior Advisor at the renowned Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.  CIFS equip and inspire individuals and organisations, decision-makers and the public, to act on the future, today. She's an expert advisor who guides organisations in exploratory insight and innovation processes.With a background in cultural sociology, her field of passion is people – to understand emerging needs, the drivers and barriers behind why and how we live and think, behave and consume the way we do, and to investigate the behavioural patterns and cultural consequences of broader societal currents. As a result, Tamira helps bridge the gap between the present and the future in order to define new opportunity spaces for innovation.In our interview, we discuss her viewpoints around issues inc Design Thinking, Scenario Planning, Health Futures, mega-trends related to Individualism, Immaterialism, Transformation, the No-touch Economy, and Polarisation.Tamira also outlines her plans to circumnavigate the world in her catamaran. I am, to put it mildly, deeply envious. So, I hope you enjoy your coffee while listening! (Talking of which, you can buy me one here if you like: https://ko-fi.com/thenewabnormal).

Our impressive guest speaker in this episode is John Sanei - He is going to take us through ten things we can do to develop foresight from where we are. + Understand the moment and prepare for life as you now know it to be. + Focus your energy on what you want. + Follow your curiosity and find your wisdom. The unprecedented global crisis has been an opportunity to prepare ourselves for the collective future we want. Now is the time to invent new ways to add value to a world in desperate need of help. This may mean that we need to start again and reimagine our purpose. Who knows, we may well like the new story better.   About our guest: John Sanei (Sah-nay) is a Knowledge Mercenary who travels the globe to uncover the lessons needed to uplift communities and help humanity thrive. His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa's first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. Author of best-sellers such as FutureNext,  What's Your Moonshot?, Magnetiize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connectors the curious to leading thinkers. Despite this success, John still freely shares his passion and excitement through his signature videos – find him online and start upgrading your perspective.   This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova 

Build, Test, Repeat: questo è il mantra del Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Una “formula” fondamentale a cui fare riferimento in materia di prototipazione. Nell'episodio di oggi andremo ad approfondirne il senso, osservando da molto vicino quotidianità e sfumature del CIID, in compagnia di Simona Maschi che ne è Co-founder e Director. Ci ritroviamo dopo dieci anni, una finestra di tempo che permette non solo una riflessione cronologica sul nostro lavoro ma anche un aggiornamento su traguardi e obiettivi del CIID che si occupa di istruzione, innovazione e tecnologia nell'ambito del Design. Ed ecco che parliamo insieme di ritorno alle “origini” per definire meglio il bisogno e il dovere di creare prodotti e servizi con al centro la vita del pianeta e delle persone e tutti quei sistemi necessari per la sopravvivenza che, migliorando il nostro presente, andranno a garantire il nostro futuro. Un viaggio che guarda al domani ma vuole imparare dal passato, anzi da un'essenza primordiale. Simona infatti spiega come la Natura sia in grado di ispirarci, considerando che “prototipa” da miliardi di anni e del perché abbiano deciso di espandersi da Copenhagen in Costa Rica per assimilare quelle dinamiche intrinseche da adottare nelle nostre pratiche quotidiane. Imparare dalla Natura: questo è il viaggio. Buon ascolto. NOTE: Il programma del CIID.dk lo trovate qui -> https://idp.ciid.dk/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nois3/message

Die vierte Folge des DZT-Branchenpodcasts hat Skandinavien im Blick. Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden und Finnland sind wichtige Märkte für Deutschlands Incoming-Tourismus und nehmen eine Vorreiterrolle beim Thema Nachhaltigkeit ein. Aber „grünes Incoming“ erfordert seitens der Gastgeberländer Investitionen und Innovationen, denn noch sind nicht alle Reisenden bereit, für ein gutes Gewissen einen Aufpreis zu bezahlen. Mit ihren Gästen Monica Línnegard, CEO des schwedischen Bahnbetreibers SJ, und Daria Krivonos, Direktorin des Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, bespricht die DZT-CEO Petra Hedorfer die Geschäfts-Chancen, die sich aus einem kleiner werdenden CO2-Fußabdruck ergeben. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter https://www.germany.travel Folgen Sie uns: https://www.facebook.com/ReiselandDeutschland https://www.instagram.com/germanytourism/ https://twitter.com/GermanyTourism https://www.youtube.com/user/germanytourism

As I have mentioned before, what we wear plays as much of a part in sustainability as what we eat.  Along with leather, wool is a natural fiber that can be used to create earth-friendly, fashionable pieces that are long-lasting. On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Edzard Van Der Wyck, co-founder of Sheep, Inc. Since 2017, Sheep, Inc has been making “contemporary knitwear that has a positive impact on the world.” This mission is completed through solar powered manufacturing, carbon-negative raw materials, and well-cared for sheep.  Join our conversation to learn: - How Edzard got started in the fashion industry and how Sheep Inc came to be - The problems with fast fashion  - The process of finding sustainable materials - Cashmere versus Merino wool - The self-cleaning nature of Merino wool - How Sheep Inc is able to have a carbon negative impact through optimizing their supply chain - All about the adopt-a-sheep program - How comparing wool to slavery or the holocaust is inaccurate and unjust - Why sheep need to be shorn once a year - How the wool is treated affects the feel - The unique marketing approach of Sheep Inc and gender neutral quality of the products - How you eventually pay the price for things in one way or another - All of Sheep Inc's Impact Program where 5% of revenue goes to regenerative projects - How Covid has encouraged people to make more meaningful purchases Resources: - Heist Studios - Sustainable Dish Episode 14: Director Michael Matheson Miller of Poverty Inc. - The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) - ZQRX program Connect with Edzard: Website: Sheep Inc. Instagram: @sheepinc LinkedIn: Edzard van der Wyck Twitter: @evdwyck *** Episode Credits: Thank you to all who've made this show possible. Our hosts are Diana Rodgers, Lauren Manning, and James Connelly. Our producer is Meg Chatham, and our editor is Emily Soape. And of course, we are grateful for our sponsors, Patreon supporters, and listeners. A big thanks to Nakano Knives for their support of my work and the podcast. I've been using their knives for a couple of years now and I love them. They are beautiful, easy to hold, and a fantastic value. And just in time for the holidays, you can use my offer code DIANA for 10% off plus get a $25 voucher toward your next purchase. Who doesn't love a new knife, right?   

Welcome to the 16th episode of the Disruptors Network podcast. John Sanei has a knack for sharing his knowledge and creating meaningful connections. He ignites platforms, connects with crowds, and leaves an empowering perspective that lasts long after the lights have switched off. He has received global recognition for his keynote talks and masterclasses as Africa's first Singularity University Faculty Member, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education, and an Associate Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He is the Co-Founder of the School of Modern Wisdom and The Expansive Podcast. As the author of four bestsellers and currently working on his fifth, John has fulfilled his goal of staying on top of future trends by researching and publishing a book every year. We discuss the challenges and features of a new world, the adaptability quotient, and more!

What you'll learn in this episode: How Guðbjörg has made sustainability part of every aspect of her business, from jewelry materials to packaging Why Guðbjörg is inspired by Iceland's natural landscape, and why she encourages tourists to visit more remote parts of the country Why creating the best design often means stepping away from it Why people who want to start their own jewelry brands must constantly push themselves to come up with new ideas About Guðbjörg Kristín Ingvarsdóttir Guðbjörg Kristín Ingvarsdóttir is a goldsmith, jewelry designer and co-founder of the award-winning sustainable jewelry brand Aurum, Iceland's leading jewelry brand. Guðbjörg studied goldsmithing at Copenhagen Technical College, completing the journeyman's examination in 1993. She then completed the master craftsman examination in goldsmithing at Reykjavík Technical College in 1994, subsequently returning to Copenhagen to study jewelry design at the Institute for Precious Metals. She ran the jewelry workshop Au-Art in Copenhagen from 1996 to 1999 in collaboration with others.  In 1999, Guðbjörg returned to Iceland and founded the design and jewelry brand Aurum. Her designs have attracted much attention worldwide and she has taken part in many international design exhibitions, both as a solo designer and as part of a group. She was awarded first prize in the jewelry competition "Spirit of the North" in St. Petersburg in 2000; received the DV Cultural Award in Reykjavík for art design in 2002; and received the Icelandic Visual Arts Award for design in 2008. In 2011, Aurum received the Njarðarskjöldur award for Best Tourist Shop of the Year and in 2015 the Grapevine Shop of the Year award. Aurum has been recommended by several international publications such as Timeout, Conde Nast Traveler, Elle, GQ and Lonely Planet. Additional Resources: Website Instagram Twitter Pintrest Photos:  Erika 5: We launched the Erika collection to commemorate our 20th anniversary, Erika encapsulates the spirit of Aurum's origins. "Picture a picnic in the Icelandic countryside. A young girl fascinated by the delicate flowers, collecting them for her mother. And writing a fairy tale in her diary about her hopes and dreams. 20 years later, Guðbjörg has drawn on these indelible memories for inspiration in creating the very special Erika Collection." Swan 455 and Swan 456: Aurum by Guðbjörg's range of luxurious 14kt gold plated and 925 silver cufflinks and wedding bands in 14kt or solid 18kt gold, are perfect for a wedding day, civil partnership or to mark an anniversary or engagement. Landscape - LAX collection: Quoted from Gudbjörg: "I love living in Iceland; all my family lives here, and my design work is continually inspired by the natural environment of the country." Pakkningar: We have resolved to introduce eco-friendly thinking into every aspect of the AURUM brand. For example, we only use recycled precious metals. Our jewellery is made here in our workshop in Iceland, and we make our gift boxes to look like the stones found on the beaches of the Western Fjords, using paper from mulberry trees, which has little to no effect on the ecosystem because the trees are not cut down – the paper is made from the leaves.   Transcript: Coming from Iceland, a country known for its pristine environment, it's no surprise that Guðbjörg Kristín Ingvarsdóttir founded her jewelry brand on the principle of sustainability. Growing up in the remote countryside, she still turns to nature for inspiration when designing award-winning pieces for her global brand Aurum. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about what it was like growing up in Iceland; why Aurum uses only lab-grown diamonds and recycled metal; and what her advice is for young jewelers who want to start their own brands. Read the episode transcript here.   Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. Today, my guest is Guðbjörg, one of the most well-known jewelry designers in Iceland. She's the founder and head of the jewelry enterprise Aurum. Her flagship store is in Reykjavík, but it sells in retail outlets throughout the world. Her firm is known and respected for its commitment to sustainability. We'll hear more about her jewelry journey today. Guðbjörg, welcome to the program. Guðbjörg: Thank you. Sharon: So glad to have you. Tell us about your journey. It looks like a pretty impressive operation that you're running. How did you come to that? Guðbjörg: I completed my German examination at Copenhagen Polytechnic in 1993. After that, I further studied jewelry design at Copenhagen Institute for Hermitage for precious materials in Copenhagen. After my study in plastics and doing some jewelry work in Copenhagen, together with four of my colleagues, I started to develop my jewelry further. The time I spent there, it gave me time to work on pieces for exhibitions. That start in Denmark gave me a lot of influence. It's learning with precious metals as well as starting an account. The craft tradition is very strong and the design scene is very strong in Denmark, and they encouraged me to develop my ideas further, because I received a grant when I was over there. I got the time to develop the jewelry. In 1999, I returned to Iceland. The same year, I opened my design company where I could further develop my jewelry. My first collection started when I came back to Iceland. Sharon: When did you decide this is what you wanted to do, that you wanted to do jewelry? Were you doing it when you were a teenager? Were you making jewelry as a child? Guðbjörg: That's kind of an interesting story, because I did not grow up in a typical artistic environment. I grew up in a lively house with two generations living together. My grandmother made a lot of things by hand, beautiful clothing with her sewing machine, and my mother owned her own clothing store, so I was always involved with fashion at the time. I enjoyed sewing, and I got my first sewing machine which I was 13 years old. When I was 17 or 18, I went on an exchange to the U.S., and I spent a year on Bainbridge Island in Washington. I took all the art classes I could take because I didn't have any at home. I lived in a small town, so we didn't have any art classes. I decided to take everything I could at the high school on Bainbridge Island. One of the classes was a jewelry class with a great teacher. After that, I found my passion, so I couldn't think about anything else to do. When I came back to Iceland in 1998, I just wanted to be a goldsmith. That was the story to it. Sharon: Wow! First of all, what does Aurum mean? How did you come up with the name for your business? Guðbjörg: It's a beautiful name. Aurum means gold in Latin. It's also the most precious metal, so that was something I thought would work for my business. Aurum, for me, means ambition, understanding, responsibility, unity and mindfulness; that is what I think of when I run my business. It's an equal opportunity company; everybody has worth in the company. Sharon: Wow! For those listening, I'd like to spell it. It's A-u-r-u-m. Guðbjörg: Yes, it is. Sharon: Aurum. Guðbjörg: Yeah.  Sharon: You've won several design awards, and your business has appeared on the list of top jewelry places in Iceland. How did that come about? Did you enter a contest? How did they get to know you? Guðbjörg: It was my first prize I got. It was a competition in South Petersburg. The name of it was Spirit of the North, and it was in the year 2000 when I was just starting off my business. That was a great honor for me, to get that award as a young jeweler starting off her own brand. Sharon: Yes, I'm sure it is. Guðbjörg: It helped a lot to get recognized in Iceland. Then I received a design award in Iceland in 2008 for five of my collections. Aurum itself has gotten some awards, for the best jewelry brand in 2000 and ethical brand of the year from the Eluxe awards in 2021. Through the years, we have got some nominations and awards. Sharon: How did you decide to start your emphasis on sustainability in everything you do with the jewelry? Can you tell us about that and how you came to it? Guðbjörg: First, having grown up in Iceland, it's this sustainable country. From the start, I have only used recycled, refined precious metals. Recently, I thought I would go into lab-grown diamonds because I want to have responsibility in every step of the company.  Sharon: So you use lab-grown diamonds? Guðbjörg: Yeah. Also, if you think about Iceland, our production is entirely based on Iceland. Iceland generates 100 percent of its energy from its resources, so there's no place in Iceland to do that, to pick up things like the packaging. I've been using the same packaging from the start. It is a special packaging made from mulberry paper. This is the best paper from the mulberry tree because it does not interfere with the ecosystem, as not a single tree has to be cut down. All the leaves are used while the tree continues to grow. From the start, I wanted to use that. They are making it especially for me. I went to the company in Iceland and found the stone it was made after. The box is modeled after the stone. I picked it myself. Sharon: You have beautiful boxes. They look like rocks. Guðbjörg: Yeah, they look like rocks. Sharon: You can tell, yes. Guðbjörg: Yeah. They are made after the stone I picked myself. Sharon: Oh, wow. Tell us about your clients. Are they all from Iceland? You sell online, so I assume they're all over the world. Guðbjörg: Yes, I'm selling all over the world. I've been lucky through the years; I have these great Icelandic customers that come again and again into the store. It's an honor to be selling to the U.S. A lot of customers come from the U.S., from Australia. I'm getting more and more from Canada and Europe. We have clients all over the world, also from Asia. I think it's because people connect with the story I want to tell. Usually when I start to develop my collection, I already have the story behind it, and then I develop the jewelry from there. People connect with it. When they come to us, when they see us and when they come into my store, they can feel it; the atmosphere is just there. Sharon: It seems like all of your jewelry is inspired by the Icelandic environment or things you see. Guðbjörg: Yes, it is. I have been inspired very much by Icelandic nature. You can really see it when you look at my jewelry. My most favorite part is the area where I grew up. I grew up where there is this very tall mountain. I spent my time on the mountain skiing when I was a child, and in the summertime, I spent my time in the countryside. I go there every summer and I get this peace. It's a small house I'm staying at, with no energy, nothing. It's just the sea and the mountain and we have a place there. There I get the peace to develop my ideas, and the energy there provides me with creative ideas and space. It's also the space. It feels like you are alone there. For me, there's nothing better than losing myself in this wilderness, sensing the beauty and experiencing the forms while lying there. It takes these fantastic shapes, and then I turn them into little treasures. This is mostly where I get my ideas. Of course, I have worked with some museums in Iceland and worked with some artists such as a sculptor. I have made jewelry after her glass sculptures. I have also worked on other ideas, but nature is the most inspiring for me. Sharon: It sounds like your head must be full of ideas because you're surrounded by such beauty there. I can see how it would be an endless source of inspiration waking up in the countryside. I was just in Iceland and besides your store, I visited the place you mentioned. I will never be able to pronounce it. To somebody like me in Los Angeles, it's beautiful, but it's also in the middle of nowhere. Guðbjörg: Yeah, it's all this nature. Later I noticed, when I started my studies, how influenced I was by my growing up in this place. It was quite isolated when I was living there; not so much now, but at that time it was.  Sharon: It still seems fairly remote. That must have been a shock—when you came to Bainbridge Island to study, how was that coming from Iceland?  Guðbjörg: That was special because I had gone once after Iceland. I didn't speak much English, so it was a challenge, but I stayed with a wonderful family that helped me get in world with everything there. It's a beautiful island so I was lucky. They were really artistic. He was an architect, and they were involved with acting. I went to a Shakespeare play and all that; I saw my first ballet in Seattle. I was excited with the new creative things over there. It was very special coming from such a small town. Sharon: How do you think people who visit, especially from the states, what's their stereotype of Iceland? People have said to me, “Was there ice all over the ground?” How do people see Iceland? Are they surprised when they talk to you about Iceland when they're visiting? Guðbjörg: When I went in 1988, 1989 to the U.S., people didn't know anything about Iceland, but now people have the internet, so they know a lot. I think people know a lot today when they come into the store. Maybe they get surprised when they go out in the countryside to smaller towns and so on, but Reykjavík is very close to our city. Sharon: Yeah, it is. Guðbjörg: With fashion and all, we are really up to date with everything, I would say.  Sharon: Iceland's become the place to visit. Guðbjörg: Yes, it's a beautiful country. I understand because I want to be in Iceland during the summertime. There's almost nowhere else I would like to spend my summer because it's such a beauty. We go fishing and hiking. We do a lot of things here. Sharon: It's gorgeous. When I looked at it on the map, it was so small. What would your advice be to young jewelers, young designers? To me, it takes a lot of guts to come back to Iceland and say, “I'm going to start my jewelry company.” What would your advice be to people starting out? Guðbjörg: It's a challenge to do, but when I came back from Denmark, I wanted to show new ideas because I have a lot of jewelry business in Iceland. It's to believe in yourself. What I have been doing, I always push myself further and develop new ideas. I never stop, actually. I'm always working because I love what I'm doing. I think that's a big part of it, to like what you are doing. It's always exciting to my mind, developing a new collection. It takes time. It sometimes takes a year, sometimes two years. Sometimes it has to be sitting on my desk for more than two years, then I get the idea how to work on it further. Sometimes it's just a short time. It has always been important for me to push myself, to not be stuck in older ideas, to work on new ideas. That's always exciting. Sharon: I'm always impressed when I meet somebody who has a belief in themselves and the confidence to say, “O.K., I'm going to do this. I realize that are challenges and there are roadblocks, but this is what I want to do,” and push through it.  Guðbjörg: Yeah, I enjoy this journey. It has to be amazing, I think, because I wouldn't be doing anything else other than this. Knowing that when you are 80 years old, that's special. I think today because people have so many choices, it's difficult to find what you want. I have three daughters: one is 24, one is 18 and one is eight, and everything is changing. It's difficult for people to find their passion. I think it's most difficult to find your passion and work on it. It takes time. Just give it time. Sharon: That's great advice. Thank you so much for sharing that. It's been such a pleasure to talk with you. Guðbjörg: You, too. Sharon: I hope our paths will cross again soon. Guðbjörg: You're always welcome. Sharon: Thank you so much. 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For some, it's a prototyping tool. For others, it's a gateway to freedom of expression.  It's been a powerful tool for STEM education, an object of scorn, and the hardware platform that's launched a thousand Kickstarters. But no matter what your expectations are, Arduino will surprise you in 2021. Hear all about the origins of Arduino as an exercise in usability and open-source philosophy. Learn how Arduino transformed the maker movement and vice versa. And listen in as the co-founder of one of the most popular hardware platforms on Earth talks about the beauty and backlash of making hardware simple enough for all. This episode has a wealth of insights about the nature of creativity in design, but it also has several excellent quotes from Massimo Banzi, including: “So I showed up with a bunch of potatoes and lemons…” "When they looked at Arduino, they said, 'What the hell is this thing?'" "...you, as a developer, were expected to be a professional. So you were supposed to suffer a little bit, you know?" "The world is full of grumpy engineers." and, of course, "Baby talk for potheads." Meet Massimo Banzi Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of Arduino, one of the most popular hardware platforms in history. He is an electrical engineer and educator, as well as a self-described open-source advocate. An important part of Massimo's career is his background in interaction design, which has provided him formal training on how to make hardware accessible to everyone.      Banzi has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, the Domus Academy, and the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. He's also co-founded two FabLabs—digital fabrication labs—in his home country of Italy. In addition to his work with Arduino, Massimo has served as a consultant for brands like Prada, Whirlpool, and Adidas.

In this episode of The New Abnormal,  I interview Elodie Marteau, a Paris-based foresight strategist & cultural analyst, who helps businesses identify cultural opportunities to future-proof their brand strategy. Her viewpoints have been published by a wide range of organisations including the Fashion Network, LS:N Global, Trend Atelier, Canvas8 and the Global Scanning Review c/o the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, etc. In the interview, we discuss her thoughts on a wide range of issues relating to some of the dominant topics and emerging trends in 2021. These include the environmental crisis, the future city, personal identity, and brand ethics. Having worked for some of the leading agencies and consultancies in the sector, she also outlines her route into, and experiences within, the world of trend research.  Finally, she highlights her views on 'hope / community / resilience' and her perspectives on the road ahead. 

『デザインリサーチの教科書』 木浦幹雄｜2020年11月15日｜株式会社ビー・エヌ・エヌ　 デザインリサーチなしには、もう何も作れない──。 日本で初めて、デザインリサーチの実践者がその全貌と詳細を書き下ろした一冊。 不確実性の高まる社会において、正しい問いを立て、正しいプロダクトを作り続けるためには、人々の気持ちになってプロダクトを作るのではなく、人々をプロダクト開発プロセスに巻き込み、人々の生活を理解し、人々と共にプロダクトを作る必要があります。そのための方法が「デザインリサーチ」です。 世界中の経営者が殺到するコペンハーゲンのデザインスクール、Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design(CIID)で実践されている手法をベースに、日本でのプロジェクトをふまえて、より実践しやすく、かつ効果が得られるようにカスタマイズしたプロセスと考え方を、わかりやすく解説します。本書によって、近くスタンダードになるであろう、産業界におけるデザインリサーチの体系化された知見をインストールできます。 1章では、デザインへの注目、またリサーチに基づくデザインへの期待が高まる背景を紐解きます。2章では、デザインリサーチの特徴をマーケティングリサーチと比較しながら挙げ、デザインリサーチが貢献できる理由と範囲を定義します。メインとなる3章では、プロジェクト設計からチームビルディング、リサーチ設計、主となる調査と分析、さらにはアイディエーション、コンセプト作成、ストーリーテリング、プロトタイピングまで、デザインプロセスを俯瞰したうえで必要となる手順を解説します。4章では、デザインリサーチに組織で取り組み運用していくためのポイントを紹介します。 教科書と銘打っていますが、型通りではない現在進行系の分野における生きた教科書という意味であり、読者をこの世界に導くためのテキストブックです。 http://www.bnn.co.jp/books/10700/ 企画・朗読：若林恵 録音・編集：山口宜大（Magic Mill Sounds） 制作協力：宮野川真（Song X Jazz） 音楽：yasuhiro morinaga + maiko ishii 黒鳥福祉センターにて収録

Bogi Eliasen, Director of Health at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, discusses the future of genomics, personalized health, healthcare data, digital health, and more.Schedule a meeting with Natalie Yeadon: https://www.meetwithnatalie.comNatalie Yeadon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalieyeadon/Impetus Digital Website: https://www.impetusdigital.com/Impetus Digital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impetus-digital/Impetus Digital Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImpetusadboardsImpetus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ImpetushealthcareBogi Eliasen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogi-eliasen-futureproofinghealth/Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies: https://cifs.dk/

In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interview Richard Watson, Futurist-in-Residence at Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He helps organisations to think, especially about emerging opportunities and risks. Particular interests include emerging tech, AI, robotics, education, energy, and water. Richard has written extensively on societal trends and the impact of technology, and has given over 300 talks to various organisations throughout the world. He's worked extensively on scenario planning projects having been introduced to the discipline by one of the founders of GBN. The author of five books about various aspects of the future (inc the scenario process), he's blogged on innovation for Fast Company and written for Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies and McKinsey & Co. Finally, he's also a visiting lecturer at both Imperial College Business School and London Business School, co-founder of 'Thinking Allowed' and one of the people behind Sci-Fi nights at the Royal College Of Art. So, we discuss all of the above alongside issues such as a potential corona chronology, leadership, the merits of studying politics, philosophy & economics, and the entrepreneurial mind. Finally, Richard outlines a strategic approach based on 'scenario worlds or a preferred future'...

Today’s episode is with systems thinker and design maverick, Marquise Stillwell.  Born and raised in Ohio, into a family of community activists, Marquise learned the power of owning one’s story at an early age. He is the founder and principal of Openbox, a company focused on improving the lives of those in the communities they serve through design, storytelling, and innovation. His work spans over 20 years, designing and implementing fresh models for businesses and cultural organizations, while sitting on the boards of The Lowline Underground Park, Stae, Artmatr, Creative Capital, PioneerWorks and the Urban Ocean Lab. He is also a member of the High Line Advisory Committee. Through Openbox, Marquise has created an intellectual circular economy, grounded in the ethos of improving our communities’ by placing people-centered services and experiences at the forefront of design thinking. His philanthropic and creative activities include teaching for two Danish design schools: the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and KaosPilot in the city of Aarhus. In addition to being the co-founder of Deem Journal, a magazine focused on design and social practices, he also collaborates with colleague Petter Ringbom on various films including Shield and Spear (2014) and The New Bauhaus (2019) which brings to light the wide-ranging oeuvre and brilliance of Bauhaus instructor Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. The company name, Openbox, takes its name from the story of Henry Box Brown, a slave who, in 1849, mailed himself to freedom from the Jim Crow South, arriving 27 hours later in Philadelphia. Representing the idea of openness and freedom, OpenBox builds frameworks that aren’t designed to lock the individuals in, but instead provide them with tools of liberation.  In today’s episode, we discuss how people of color can create spaces for the curiosity of others, the art of not turning one’s struggle into a lifestyle, the power of subversion in design thinking, and how he has made his network his net worth. It is with great pleasure to introduce the incredible Marquise Stillwell, to the IBI podcast. Here are some highlights: On people of color creating spaces for the curiosity of others: If you have the ability to know yourself, know who you are, have the ability to own who you are, and have the ability to tell your own story then I really believe there has to be some window of opportunity to allow for people to engage with you with open curiosity without you feeling that they’re going to take something from you. (12:30) On the art of not turning one’s struggle into a lifestyle: Don’t turn your struggle into a lifestyle; be who you are - but don’t turn it into a lifestyle to where you’re trying to be this thug when you don’t even have to be like really is that how you have to live your life? Then you can do better. (24:00) On how he has made his network his net worth: My network is my net worth, and I put a lot of value in the people that I know and I connect with. And with that being said I walk into every relationship knowing who I am first! Someone would ask me what’s the key to living in a city like New York or London or any other big city is that if you don’t know who you are, you’re done! (42:27) Support this podcast

"The future is always contested..." Casper Skovgaard Petersen is editorial manager of Scenario, the quarterly magazine produced by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. As you’d expect, he has a lot to say about the various possible futures we might have waiting for us, and in this episode he speaks about the different techniques they use at the institute, challenging dominant narratives to look beyond what seems to be obvious or self-evident, and how they use those same techniques editorially in producing the magazine.

As a designers, how do we define and approach practice? Athletes practice before a competition and musicians practice before a performance. Do we, as designers, live by those same standards? In this episode, Erik Dahl, a seasoned UX consultant, educator at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, co-founder of the Midwest UX conference, and ultramarathoner, dives deeply into the philosophy and execution of practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 93 of the Business Bookshelf - John Sanei - Author of "FutureNEXT: Re-imagining our world & conquering uncertainty" John has a fascination with human psychology and the future that has seen him become Africa’s first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and an Associate Partner at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. Author of best-sellers What’s Your Moonshot? Magnetiize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connects the curious to leading thinkers. I talk to John about his new book “FutureNEXT: Re-imagining our world & conquering uncertainty”. The future has arrived early. And it is challenging each of us to ask, and answer, the defining questions of our time:How will our post-pandemic society move forward? Will we ever return to the world we once knew? Are we witnessing the development of a new socio-economic system? You can buy his book here. John's personal website is https://johnsanei.com and Future Self Academy found here - https://futureselfacademy.com. The host of the podcast is Lance Peppler. Email him at lance@ideastorm.co.za or visit www.ideastorm.co.za. This episode is sponsored by Idea Storm - an exponential, innovation and leadership consultancy. Book your free strategy session by visiting www.ideastorm.co.za. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lance-peppler/support

デザインスタジオ ANKR DESIGN の木浦幹雄さん（@kur）がゲスト。デザイナーが決めて進めるためにできることは何なのか。そもそもデザイナーの役割とは。デザインリサーチするだけで終わらないようにするには何をすべきなのか。デザイン / デザイナーとしての働き方を振り返る良い機会になりました。 ANKR DESIGN Inc. デザインリサーチの教科書 突破するデザイン Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design エンジニアからデザインへ 新しい事業の作り出す 解決すべき課題を決めれない デザイン思考の『弱点』 デザイナーの役割とは プロジェクトを推進させるためのデザイン デザイナーにある 3 つの役割 何をしたらデザイナー？ 伝え続けないと染み込まない 誰に対するストーリーテリングなのか The Product Management Triangle – Product Logic 過剰な UX に取り組んでしまう場合 バランスとは何なのか アジャイルとデザイン思考をつなげる リサーチの目的はインスピレーション マーシャルアーツのようなもの リサーチのはじめ方・続け方 掘り下げって結局どうすること？ リサーチだけでは次に繋がらない 考えを伝えるためのプロトタイプ

John Sanei (Sah-nay) is a trend specialist, entrepreneur, innovation strategist, best-selling author and global speaker who travels the globe to uncover the lessons needed to uplift communities and help humanity thrive.His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa's first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark.Author of best-sellers What's Your Moonshot?, Magnetiize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connects the curious to leading thinkers.Despite this success, John still freely shares his passion and excitement through his signature videos and podcast content. This interview is testimony to John's excitement, wisdom and mental model of pure abundance. Join us as we explore:The retrospective advice John would give to his 20-year-old selfHow to activate your inner geniusJohn's daily ethos of thirds: learn, grow, chillThe love of learning: Nature vs. nurture? The real crux of finding your whyThe era of forced contribution and the era of youThe true essence of building confidenceBiotech and Singularity- the medical futuristic point of viewWhy the people who are struggling are trying to keep the old world aliveWhy resilience should be reimaginationHow John applies a more conscious rule to developing wealthWhy it's important to only do what excites youThe difference between motivation and discipline- the ‘to do list' vs. ‘the to be list'Join our community:Facebook MadeToThriveZA; SteveStavsZAInstagram SteveStavsZAMentions:Dr Joe Dispenza: Meditation https://drjoedispenza.com/collections/meditations-englishVIA Institute: Institute on Characterhttps://www.viacharacter.org/Simon Sinek: Find Your Whyhttps://simonsinek.com/find-your-why/Pillars of Made To Thrive: one of which is Purposehttps://madetothrive.co.za/our-mission/John's 3 books: https://johnsanei.com/books/What's your moonshotFOREsightMagnetiizeEtymology of confidence: intense trust https://www.etymonline.com/word/confidenceSingularity masterclass (John Sanei)https://johnsanei.com/online-courses/For more information email John's team hello@johnsanei.comDave Aspreyhttps://daveasprey.com/https://www.bulletproof.com/Singularity University Campushttps://su.org/about/SingularityU South Africa: Nick and Shayne Mannhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wza44nn36xIhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/shayne-mann-31084b18/?originalSubdomain=zaRay Kurzweil: Ai for Google (86% of his predictions have come true)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_KurzweilJohn's new book FutureNEXT, partnered with Dr Iraj Abedianhttps://irajabedian.co.za/Contact John SaneiLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsanei/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/johnsanei/The Expansive podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-expansive/id1483735545www.johnsanei.com

Balder Onarheim is the founder and CEO of PlatoScience and the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity. Platoscience is developing a creativity-enhancing headset called Platowork, using brain neurostimulation that actually puts you into a focus, learning, rethinking, or creating state. In this episode, we spoke about the roots and constraints of creativity, leadership with innovation, Elon musk, brain stimulation, or the influence of technology.

Guest: Peter Kronstrøm. An enlightening conversation with Peter Kronstrøm, the Head of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Latin America and founder of Future Lounge™️. Peter has been involved in futures studies for more than 15 years and started this movement in Latin American. We talked about the impact of futures studies during times of uncertainty, the tech evolution versus human ethics, and how the market should be preparing for what's next.

Guest: Peter Kronstrøm. An enlightening conversation with Peter Kronstrøm, the Head of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Latin America and founder of Future Lounge™️. Peter has been involved in futures studies for more than 15 years and started this movement in Latin American. We talked about the impact of futures studies during times of uncertainty, the tech evolution versus human ethics, and how the market should be preparing for what's next.

Guest: Peter Kronstrøm. An enlightening conversation with Peter Kronstrøm, the Head of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Latin America and founder of Future Lounge™️. Peter has been involved in futures studies for more than 15 years and started this movement in Latin American. We talked about the impact of futures studies during times of uncertainty, the tech evolution versus human ethics, and how the market should be preparing for what's next.

Guest: Peter Kronstrøm. An enlightening conversation with Peter Kronstrøm, the Head of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Latin America and founder of Future Lounge™️. Peter has been involved in futures studies for more than 15 years and started this movement in Latin American. We talked about the impact of futures studies during times of uncertainty, the tech evolution versus human ethics, and how the market should be preparing for what's next.

Living on a “Corona-coaster?” Welcome to the New Normal where many of us are pinging between hope and despair, leaving us exhausted. Amidst all the disruption and uncertainty our guest John Sanei sees opportunity in abundance. He relies on foresight- a robust, heart-led, decision-making approach that makes us curious, optimistic, and excited. During this episode, John shares his foresight on future of work, future employees, and future leadership.  To watch the full interview and/or read the transcript, click here. John Sanei (Sah-nay) is a Knowledge Mercenary who travels the globe to uncover the lessons needed to uplift communities and help humanity thrive. His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa’s first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. His current best-selling book is Foresight. FutureNEXT is scheduled for release in fall 2020.

Neste podcast temos procurado identificar processos de sustentabilidade quer seja através de projetos concretos, quer através de ferramentas e métodos para a alcançar, exemplo disso, é o financiamento de impacto, a investigação-ação, as aplicações móveis enquanto ferramenta de amplificação e as parcerias de impacto. Assim outra metodologia para alcançar projetos éticos e sustentáveis é o design thinking. Através da aplicação de um método de cocriação que eleva o background, e as experiências Soft e hard skils de cada um para o processo. O design thinking é um processo usado para construir soluções inovadoras para problemas socias, design de produtos, serviços e negócios que vão do simples ao complexo. Popularizado pelo IDEO, o design thinking enfatiza o uso da empatia para identificar uma solução centrada no ser humano. Dado o seu caracter inovador quisemos saber mais sobre ele. Falamos pois com Joana Casaca Lemos, designer e investigadora dedicada a questões críticas na era digital. A sua experiência ao longo da última década concentrou-se na interseção da tecnologia, os humanos e as preocupações ambientais. Dirige uma consultora de investigação independente que fornece informações sobre pessoas e locais para apoiar no design de produtos e serviços éticos e sustentáveis. Colaborou com a Daimler AG, a Sustainable Oceans Alliance, a IDEO, o Business Council for Sustainability, Forum for the future, entre outros. Concluiu o doutoramento no Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London e desde então atuou como académica não tradicional. Foi professora na CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, professora visitante na Hyper Island, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design e na NID India and ArtCenter California. Fala e escreve sobre o papel transformador dos designers no mundo e é membra da Royal Society of Arts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversas-com-impacto/message

Simon Østergaard is a futurist and senior advisor for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He specializes in the future of education, the future of higher education in particular. He joins the futucast roster to discuss what will happen and is happening in the world of learning. What, where and why will we learn in the future? Osallistu keskuteluun Twitterissä: twitter.com/futucast Lyhyet klipit ja tiimin arkipäivää Instagramissa: www.instagram.com/futucast/ Jaksot videon kera Youtubesta: www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPojdjir3suCXQA_09P0ag Älyttömän makeet nettisivut: www.futucast.com

David and Mary Sherwin work with design teams in for-profit and nonprofit organizations via their consulting business, Ask The Sherwins, LLC. They’re also professors at the Pacific College of Art in the Design and Collaboration Program. In this episode, we go deep into designing teams, consider more effective ways to teach design and teams, and ways to make teams work when working remotely with Dawan Stanford, your podcast host. Show Summary David's background is in engineering and liberal arts. He graduated with an English degree, but had a side hustle doing graphic design. That’s where he discovered an interest in design. Much of his early design learning and education was accomplished by apprenticing at various design studios Then, he shifted into product and service design, and he worked in product development for some large software organizations.  Mary started in organizational development and content strategy, and then moved into teaching within the design discipline. Much of Mary's experience had been working with designers. Most of David's experience was from a designer's standpoint, working with people like Mary. Mary and David realized that the work they were doing on their respective paths had a lot of synergy and that they each held half of the solution. They started teaching together seven years ago. Three years after that, they founded their company after students in a special graduate-level teamwork class told them they should start their own business, because this was something companies wanted their employees to learn.  Since starting  Ask The Sherwins, Mary and David have discovered and developed the nuances of developing strong, well-functioning teams. From facilitating your new team at the start of the design process, to what to do when your team feels like it's falling apart, to working through cultural differences, Mary and David have robust processes for all of these team challenges. They discuss their management style, team-building exercises, and team maintenance practices on team design. Listen in to learn Why Mary and David’s ability to “professionally disagree” gives them an advantage when working with design clients Why their two different career paths gives two different perspectives on the design process About cultural biases, assumptions, and their role in design solutions Why Mary and David encourage students and professors to teach and learn from each other Advice on how to start your team Mary and David’s team facilitation process during their first meeting Team word tools to use when the team situation gets difficult When you should use behavioral questioning Our Guests’ Bio David and Mary Sherwin are co-founders of Ask The Sherwins, LLC, a consulting and training firm that helps design organizations develop the capabilities they need for better product design and stronger cross-functional teamwork. They have recently coached product and service design teams and provided training around innovation best practices for organizations such as Philips Oral Healthcare, Tipping Point Community, The Purpose Project, Google UX Community and Culture, and Eventbrite. The Sherwins are also active in the design education space. They lead workshops in the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design’s Summer School and currently teach in the MFA in Collaborative Design program at PNCA. In their spare time, David and Mary have collaborated on three books, including their most recent, Turning People Into Teams.   Show Highlights  [02:15] Mary and David talk about their origin story and how they arrived where they are now in design.  [04:26] How Mary’s experience in teaching played out in her design experience. [07:48] Components of a team from Mary and David’s perspective.  [10:08] Prototyping for norms, teams and individual thinking. [11:08] Advice for starting a team off well. [11:46] The importance of having team members discuss their values and the behaviors they want to see in the team. [12:50] The Why’s and How’s of the  Team Words card deck created by Mary and David. [16:55] How talking through values and behaviors at the beginning helps teams save time and deal with challenges and misunderstandings. [19:43] Ways a team’s “status quo”  can create invisible walls and obstacles for new team members.  [22: 35] What to do when everything that can go wrong with a team has gone wrong. [24:49] Habits to bring to your team to encourage connection and mutual support. [27:39] Why you should have a clear “etiquette” for your team. [28:53] How their consulting work influences what they teach. [30:38] Lessons they teach students when they deliberately break up a team. [33:56] Advice from Mary and David on how and who to hire or choose for a team.  [35:35] When a design challenge as part of the interview process can be helpful. [36:18] The two go-to “silver bullet” questions Mary likes — one for the interviewer and the interviewee. [40:57] A look at how David and Mary “ride along” on a project, and how they tailor their coaching strategy to the client. [43:18] Ways of working with remote team members and teams. [46:34] Technology, remote work, and working within human time limitations. [50:00] Advice to teams on how to make improvements and changes. [52:03] Mary and David talk about books they’ve read, their own books, and their ephemeral advice column.   Links Design Thinking 101 Fluid Hive Design Innovation Ask the Sherwins, LLC Contact Mary and David Teamwords: The Working Deck Books by David and Mary Sherwin: Turning People into Teams Creative Workshops Success by Design Book Recommendation: The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like   Humble Design Leadership + Design Agency and Experience Design Evolution with Aleksandra Melnikova — DT101 E33   The Evolution of Teaching and Learning Design with Bruce Hanington — DT101 E39 ________________   Thank you for listening to the show and looking at the show notes. Send your questions, suggestions, and guest ideas to Dawan and the Fluid Hive team. Cheers ~ Dawan   Free Download — Design Driven Innovation: Avoid Innovation Traps with These 9 Steps   Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Take your innovation projects from frantic to focused!

David and Mary Sherwin work with design teams in for-profit and nonprofit organizations via their consulting business, Ask The Sherwins, LLC. They're also professors at the Pacific College of Art in the Design and Collaboration Program. In this episode, we go deep into designing teams, consider more effective ways to teach design and teams, and ways to make teams work when working remotely with Dawan Stanford, your podcast host. Show Summary David's background is in engineering and liberal arts. He graduated with an English degree, but had a side hustle doing graphic design. That's where he discovered an interest in design. Much of his early design learning and education was accomplished by apprenticing at various design studios Then, he shifted into product and service design, and he worked in product development for some large software organizations.  Mary started in organizational development and content strategy, and then moved into teaching within the design discipline. Much of Mary's experience had been working with designers. Most of David's experience was from a designer's standpoint, working with people like Mary. Mary and David realized that the work they were doing on their respective paths had a lot of synergy and that they each held half of the solution. They started teaching together seven years ago. Three years after that, they founded their company after students in a special graduate-level teamwork class told them they should start their own business, because this was something companies wanted their employees to learn.  Since starting  Ask The Sherwins, Mary and David have discovered and developed the nuances of developing strong, well-functioning teams. From facilitating your new team at the start of the design process, to what to do when your team feels like it's falling apart, to working through cultural differences, Mary and David have robust processes for all of these team challenges. They discuss their management style, team-building exercises, and team maintenance practices on team design. Listen in to learn Why Mary and David's ability to “professionally disagree” gives them an advantage when working with design clients Why their two different career paths gives two different perspectives on the design process About cultural biases, assumptions, and their role in design solutions Why Mary and David encourage students and professors to teach and learn from each other Advice on how to start your team Mary and David's team facilitation process during their first meeting Team word tools to use when the team situation gets difficult When you should use behavioral questioning Our Guests' Bio David and Mary Sherwin are co-founders of Ask The Sherwins, LLC, a consulting and training firm that helps design organizations develop the capabilities they need for better product design and stronger cross-functional teamwork. They have recently coached product and service design teams and provided training around innovation best practices for organizations such as Philips Oral Healthcare, Tipping Point Community, The Purpose Project, Google UX Community and Culture, and Eventbrite. The Sherwins are also active in the design education space. They lead workshops in the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design's Summer School and currently teach in the MFA in Collaborative Design program at PNCA. In their spare time, David and Mary have collaborated on three books, including their most recent, Turning People Into Teams.   Show Highlights  [02:15] Mary and David talk about their origin story and how they arrived where they are now in design.  [04:26] How Mary's experience in teaching played out in her design experience. [07:48] Components of a team from Mary and David's perspective.  [10:08] Prototyping for norms, teams and individual thinking. [11:08] Advice for starting a team off well. [11:46] The importance of having team members discuss their values and the behaviors they want to see in the team. [12:50] The Why's and How's of the  Team Words card deck created by Mary and David. [16:55] How talking through values and behaviors at the beginning helps teams save time and deal with challenges and misunderstandings. [19:43] Ways a team's “status quo”  can create invisible walls and obstacles for new team members.  [22: 35] What to do when everything that can go wrong with a team has gone wrong. [24:49] Habits to bring to your team to encourage connection and mutual support. [27:39] Why you should have a clear “etiquette” for your team. [28:53] How their consulting work influences what they teach. [30:38] Lessons they teach students when they deliberately break up a team. [33:56] Advice from Mary and David on how and who to hire or choose for a team.  [35:35] When a design challenge as part of the interview process can be helpful. [36:18] The two go-to “silver bullet” questions Mary likes — one for the interviewer and the interviewee. [40:57] A look at how David and Mary “ride along” on a project, and how they tailor their coaching strategy to the client. [43:18] Ways of working with remote team members and teams. [46:34] Technology, remote work, and working within human time limitations. [50:00] Advice to teams on how to make improvements and changes. [52:03] Mary and David talk about books they've read, their own books, and their ephemeral advice column.   Links Design Thinking 101 Fluid Hive Design Innovation Ask the Sherwins, LLC Contact Mary and David Teamwords: The Working Deck Books by David and Mary Sherwin: Turning People into Teams Creative Workshops Success by Design Book Recommendation: The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like   Humble Design Leadership + Design Agency and Experience Design Evolution with Aleksandra Melnikova — DT101 E33   The Evolution of Teaching and Learning Design with Bruce Hanington — DT101 E39 ________________   Thank you for listening to the show and looking at the show notes. Send your questions, suggestions, and guest ideas to Dawan and the Fluid Hive team. Cheers ~ Dawan   Free Download — Design Driven Innovation: Avoid Innovation Traps with These 9 Steps   Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Take your innovation projects from frantic to focused!

In this episode we speak to Dhruv Saxena, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Obvious, a strategic product consultancy about agency culture, conscious choices, inclusion, design operations, balance between business & social impact and more. Dhruv shares his views and number of anecdotes from his experience building Obvious that partners with businesses to create digital experiences across a wide range of domains and industries. Since its inception, Obvious has helped create several of SE Asia's unicorn startups and worked with 120+ startups, established industry titans and Fortune 500 companies such as Flipkart, Go-Jek, Myntra, Swiggy, Wikipedia, xto10x and many more. Obvious is known for its play-books and design culture. Dhruv holds an MFA from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) as well as a Master in Industrial Design from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC). Previously, Dhruv focused on designing tangible interfaces through collaborations with designers and professors at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, MIT Media Lab and Stanford. Connect with Dhruv LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvsaxena1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhruvsaxena_ ------------ The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman. Connect with Karthi: Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/ ------------ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/designpositive/message

In this episode, we speak to Gaana Srinivas. She is currently working as the Founding Designer at Rune. She has previously worked at Amazon and has graduated from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. #product #interactiondesign

Desde Perú, nos acompaña Sheila Acuña para contarnos sobre su trayectoria como Researcher. Partimos desde el comienzo de su carrera al aprender código, y posteriormente el vuelco hacia la industria del UX. Hablamos del conocimiento adquirido desde diversas disciplinas y enfoques, y sobre todo lo que implica invertir tiempo y esfuerzo para ser referente en la industria de la Investigación de Usuarios en Sudamérica. En este andar, Sheila descubre el amor por la investigación y lo que le tomó volverse una especialista en el tema. También charlamos sobe estudiar en el Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, tropicalizar el contenido y adaptarlo a necesidades concretas, entre otros temas más. Una charla llena de muchísimo admiración y respeto.

Two years ago, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design opened an outpost in Costa Rica. From the outside, this might appear to be a random office move. But, explains Simona Maschi, co-founder and director of the CIID, Costa Rica is the perfect base from which to work on the biggest design problem of our generation: that of saving the planet. This podcast is an interview with Maschi, explaining the process of interaction design and how it might help in our eco-emergency.

My guest today is Matt Nish-Lapidus. Matt is an artist, musician, researcher, designer, and educator based in Toronto. Besides creating art and music, and doing design work, Matt also teaches at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. In this conversation, we discuss the role of art in our evolving technological and cultural environments. Listen to the full conversation   Show notes Matt Nish-Lapidus (emenel.com) Matt on Instagram Matt on Twitter University of Toronto New media art SFMoMA MoMA (New York) Tate Modern Nam June Paik Theodore Adorno The Anthropocene New Materialism Jane Bennett The Walt Disney Company Marvel Impressionism CARFAC David Rokeby Pietà by Michelangelo Buonarroti Jenny Holzer New Tendencies Soft Thoughts må Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links. Read the full transcript Jorge: So, Matt, welcome to the show. Matt: Thanks. Happy to be here.  Jorge: For folks who might not know you, can you please tell us about yourself? Matt: Yeah. I sometimes these days refer to myself as a recovering designer. My original background, educationally, was in fine arts and specifically in new media art. And then, over the arc of my career, I found myself working in interaction design and very interested in the intersection between humanity and various types of complex technology, as in networks and computational technology. And I did that for about 15 years. And towards the end of that period, I found myself more interested in the types of questions that felt like they were better answered through my art practice than they were through my design practice, and the kinds of questions that also didn't seem to be that interesting to other designers or to our clients or to potential employers or partners. So about five years ago now, I left my job and decided to focus more on my artistic practice, which includes music and sound art as well as technology-based arts of different types. And in September of last year, I actually started my MFA, which is a Master of Fine Arts, in Studio Practice at the University of Toronto, which I'm currently pursuing on top of other things that I continue to do, like playing music and work with other organizations. Media Art Jorge: Folks listening to the show might not be familiar with the term “media art.” How do you define that? Matt: So the most basic way to understand it – in the highest level, probably – is that unlike painting or traditional photography or other types of sculpture – you know, other types of traditional arts – media art and new media art were emergent practices that specifically dealt with new types of mass media originally. So, it was artists working with televisions, with video, with different kinds of sound and broadcast technologies. And then over the course of the last couple of decades, became artists that work with the internet or with computation, and different kinds of network technologies, and think about them from an artistic perspective, which is usually a critical perspective or thinking about the impact that they have on people or the way that people relate to them and the new types of relationships and new types of affects that they create. Jorge: So, it's art that uses technologies, especially like communications technologies, as its medium? Is that the idea? Matt: Yeah, as its medium and often as its topic. So, we make art about the technology is sometimes using the same ones. And the practice goes back to the late fifties, but really in some ways is now the dominant practice in contemporary art. Jorge: Can you name some examples of how you would experience new media art? Matt: Yeah. I mean, if you've ever been to a contemporary art gallery or museum of modern art, whether it's the SF MoMA or the MoMA in New York, or the Tate Modern in London, a lot of what you're seeing would be in this category. Artists who work with light, who work with sound, work with video projections, interaction in different ways… You know, a famous example from the early days of media artist Nam June Paik, who worked a lot with televisions and his work was both about television as a cultural object, but also as a medium and as a material. The Role of Art Jorge: We're recording this in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020. And I have to mention that the context that we're, that we're speaking in, because we are accelerating our move to interacting through technology. And you and I are talking right now through Zoom and I can see you. So we're having a conversation, and it's perhaps too soon to know, but I'm wondering what role does art play – especially, you know, this new media art that you're talking about – in a world in which we're increasingly interacting through technology. Perhaps the question is more broadly, it's like, what is the role of art? Matt: Yeah. So, it's an interesting question and it's one that's been asked by artists and philosophers for many, many years. And I've been thinking about this lately. In the fifties – it might have even been in the sixties, don't quote me on the date – a German philosopher and media theoretician, Theodore Adorno, wrote an essay in which he asked, how do you make art after Auschwitz? Like, what is the role of art in a world where something as horrible as the Holocaust could happen? And how do you as an artist deal with that, and still see beauty and joy and the sublime and all these different things, when our understanding of what's possible in the world is so fundamentally changed and so terrifying. And I think there are a number of similar questions that we can be asking ourselves right now. Before this outbreak, the big question on a lot of people's minds was a similar one, which is how do you make art in the Anthropocene? If we're witnessing a period of, like massive global scale change and devastation this like slow train wreck, what is the role of art and how do you continue to make art in the face of such a massive and often depressing and serious thing. And I think like the pandemic that we're currently trying to figure out raises a similar kind of question again, just like what is the point of art and how do you make it and what do you make it about when our understanding of what's possible in the world has fundamentally changed. When there's a new thing, a new object that exists that didn't really exist before. There's a school of philosophy called New Materialism and a kind of well-known New Materialist, Jane Bennett, talks about these things as what she calls assemblages. And an assemblage is like a network of heterogeneous actors that all have different kinds of agency. And, looking at the pandemic through the lens of Bennett's idea of an assemblage, you can start to see the agency of the virus as a political actor, as an economic actor, as a social and cultural actor. And for me anyway, that's where as an artist, my interest in it lies, and where I think I can kind of grapple with our current situation is not saying, “okay, well what do we do when we're all locked in our homes,” but saying, “what are the fundamental changes in the world that we can observe? What are the things we want to try to say or express about them or understand through making things?” And then, “what kinds of things can I make that help with that understanding or are cathartic or express an affect or give people something that I think they want or need given the kind of drastic changes that this is affecting on all of our systems?” High Art and Popular Art Jorge: When you say that, do you make a distinction between… I don't know if the appropriate terms are like “high art” and “popular art”? Matt: Like in terms of, like a museum and gallery art versus like television shows and movies and things like that? Jorge: Yes. Matt: Yeah. I mean, I don't see a huge distinction in a formal way. I think good media, like a really well-made television show, for instance, that deals with these topics in a critical and thoughtful way, that's based on research and, you know, does things like… explores the ideas through the medium that they're working with. I don't see that as being massively different than, you know, a piece of art that you might see in a art gallery, or in a museum.  Jorge: I would also expect that the reach would be different as well, right? Matt: Yeah. Probably considerably different… Jorge: Yeah, it'd have a greater influence on the culture if it's a movie put out by the Walt Disney Company, as opposed to something exhibited in an art gallery, no? Matt: Yeah. I mean, the reach would be massively different. I think though even in those media that, for the reach to be at the scale of like a Disney or, you know, Marvel kind of thing, you're having to make stories that connect with people in a certain way, which, I feel like often precludes you from doing the deep and difficult work of truly critically reflecting on a situation and expressing something about it. And when you see TV shows or movies that do that, they often don't have those kinds of audiences. Jorge: Yeah. The intent is different, right? Like one is a purely or mostly commercial product, whereas the other, like you're saying, is more of an exploration of a way of being, an ideal? Matt: A way of being, a way of thinking, a way of seeing and understanding things. I think when art is really amazing, for me anyway, it's when something changes, like a piece of art can change the way that I see the world. It can change the way that I understand myself and see myself. It can reflect back to me a feeling or an idea that I've had but couldn't express or didn't have words for. And I think great art from every era, especially the modern era – which is, you know, loosely from like Impressionism on up – a lot of it is really about creating that kind of critical and reflective mirror and reflecting not just to the individual viewer, but reflecting on culture and on society and on the place and time where it comes from and reacting to things that are happening in the world. So, like, I'm excited actually to see how artists react to what's happening now because in a way, that's what art does. The Market for Art Jorge: One thing that I was wondering about is how does the market value art? I mean, we were talking about Disney, and we know what that market looks like, but I was just wondering someone who makes art for a living, how do you make a living? Matt: It's different in different countries, which is interesting. I mean, there's a combination of things depending on the kind of work that you make. Some artists make work that you can sell, that people can buy and there's an open market and you make a name for yourself, and the work goes up and down and value based on how collectible your work is or what museums want to acquire it or, or other things like that and that works for, I guess more and more kinds of media these days. Like it used to be that if you made installation or you made sound art or video, it was hard to sell that on like the art market. That's becoming more of a thing. People will buy that stuff. In a lot of countries, other than the US… So, in Canada and the UK and a lot of Europe, there's a big public funding infrastructure for arts. So, in Canada we have arts councils at the municipal, provincial, and national level that provide funding for artists and artists' projects in different ways. There's also regionally determined fee structures for exhibitions. So, if you get a piece of work into an exhibition and the gallery has funding, they will usually pay based on the agreed-upon fee schedule. It's kind of like the actors' unions? It's not an official union in Canada, it's called CARFAC. It's the Canadian Artists…. some, I don't remember what it stands for. But they set a kind of standardized fee schedule. And so often when you submit a piece of work to a gallery or to an exhibition or to a curator, it'll say on the submission, like we pay, you know, CARFAC's scheduled fees, which are basically based on like how much experience you have and they have standardized fee structures. Those are the main ways. The other one is commissions. So, a museum or a festival or a curator may really love your work and want you to make something new for their exhibition, in which case they'll have a production budget and they will offer you some sort of project budget to make the work. And then at the end of that, either they own it, or you own it, depending on the stipulations of the contract. Time and Place  Jorge: One of the interesting aspects of what's happening right now is that time feels greatly accelerated. I saw a tweet just yesterday that said something like, “the last couple of weeks have been a really long year,” or… Matt: Yeah. Jorge: It feels like time has greatly accelerated right now and, conversely, it feels like place has become blurred. You are… I believe you're in Toronto right now, right? Matt: Yup. Jorge: And, like I said, we're talking over Zoom and, earlier this morning I was in a meeting with colleagues who are here in the Bay Area, but I experienced the interaction in exactly the same plane that I'm interacting with you now. So, you could be here for all I know, right? So, place has become erased somehow. And I'm wondering about time and place and new media and how new media, I mean, it has it in the name, right? “New” Media? Matt: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because when that term originally was coined, it was in -response to existing media. So, it was trying to say, we're not print newspapers, photography, like we're not talking about those things. We're talking about these new media, which are video and television. Originally it was those things, and then, computation. And I think time and place and the kind of collapsing of time in place has been a big part of the work of new media and media artists since probably the mid- eighties. You know, there's a piece I remember seeing by David Rokeby who's a new media artist that's been working since the early eighties with computer vision and computational space in different ways, where he set up a room with quadraphonic sound – so four big speakers – and then had a gallery – this was in Toronto – and had a gallery in Amsterdam, set up the same thing in their room. And then using very rudimentary digital video cameras from – this was probably in the late eighties, early nineties – movement in one space was translated to low frequency sound and the other space basically creating like airwaves. So, if two people were moving simultaneously in both spaces, they would actually feel the impact of the other person's body as air pressure through sound? So already in those kinds of early pieces, they were thinking a lot about like, what does it mean to collapse space? How do we be physically present in different spaces? I feel like we take a lot of this for granted these days. And it's interesting because like this phenomenon we're experiencing right now is really unique in a number of ways. But one of the most interesting to me is that it is global, like actually global. Everyone around the world is impacted by this in some way, and very similar ways in terms of like, isolation or lockdown or social distancing or these, you know, words that we didn't even have in our vocabulary a week ago. And now, like, literally every human being on earth is impacted by this. And I can't think of another phenomenon that crosses those boundaries in the same way. But in my own practice and then thinking about, you know, art and the things that I'd be excited to see is in a time where the world feels like it's been collapsed in on itself, and we're experiencing this unifying, like, single event as a species, it would be really interesting to think about what the local differences actually are. Like, what does it mean to be in isolation in different parts of the world or in different cultures, or you know, in Italy, people were singing to each other from their balconies? I can't imagine that happening in London. So, even though we're experiencing this unifying effect, there's still going to be those like local cultural differences and uniquenesses that I think are so important to thinking about artwork and the way that art reflects culture, and is often so specific and so unique to certain places in certain times in the way that it responds aesthetically to localized events. Experiencing Art Online Jorge: You reminded me of something that I've noticed over the past few weeks, which is cultural institutions like museums announcing to the world that, “Hey, you know, that you can view our collection online!” Now, especially with so many people at home, who are looking for new things to do with themselves while there, they only have this little window on their computer to the world, right? Matt: Yeah. Yeah! It's an interesting thing to see since so many museums are so woefully behind in terms of digitizing collections and thinking about alternative ways of exhibiting work. Our experience of art and the way that we think about art, especially at the institutional level is so grounded in this physical experience of like, being in a place with a thing, or in a place for a performance or these very spatio-temporal experiences. So, yeah, it's fascinating to see what some museums are doing. In some ways it reminds me of the mid-nineties, late nineties, again when there was an explosion of like “net art” and artists working specifically with the internet as their medium. And so, like those works existed natively online and museums and galleries at the time were struggling to figure out how to present them in physical space. Like, how do we take a work by a net artist and put it in an exhibition at the MoMA? We didn't know how, and they still don't really know how. And now we're faced with the exact opposite problem, where they're like, how do we get all of our paintings and sculptures and objects available to people somehow through the internet or through virtual tours or whatever it is that they're doing? Jorge: And these new technologies change our understanding of the work itself, right? When you said experiencing the work in a physical space, I remember the experience of seeing in person the statue Pietà, by Michelangelo. And that's an artifact that when you're standing in front of it, it has a certain volume because of the materials it's made from, you know that it has a certain weight and you can touch it. But you can feel that, being in this space with it, and it's very different to see it in photographs, which I had seen many photographs before I saw the real thing, but it's a different experience. And I don't know too much about new media art, but I remember in university looking at the work of Jenny Holzer. Matt: Yep. Jorge: And, for folks who are listening who might not know Jenny Holzer, she worked a lot with words, right? Like she had these slogans that she presented in various ways. And after Twitter, I have never been able to look at her work the same way. Matt: Yeah. It's so interesting. Being Relevant vs. Remaining Relevant Jorge: You know? And I'm wondering, with technologies that are changing so fast, as someone who is working with art, how do you balance expressing the needs and perhaps if we can use this phrase, the “spirit of the time” with making the work stand up over time and have some kind of longevity? Matt: Yeah, that is a very hard question. And it often comes down to the work having some sort of value beyond its technology. So, like with Jenny Holzer for instance, the words are an important part of her work, obviously, but so is the way that it's presented. So, you know, she made these big LED signs with scrolling text in different directions and sculptures out of them. She did a series of giant texts that was projected on buildings. So, like the context of presentation and the way that the words were made into an object really changes the work. But then the words themselves, you know, for some of the pieces are maybe good enough words that they stand up on their own. And so like, would Jenny Holzer's words work as a series of tweets, would they have the same impact? Maybe, maybe some of them would, maybe some of them wouldn't. And the ones that wouldn't, probably wouldn't because they rely on the context and materiality of the way that she presented them to create the meaning, of the overall piece. You know, one of the things that I love about, being an artist and, and working on artworks, especially like contemporary artwork, it's rarely a single thing. What we often are working with, especially what I'm working with is these like assemblages of things. And it's in the relationships between the things that the meaning emerges, rather than in the individual components themselves. So, I also work a lot with texts, and I've been working a lot with texts over the last year or so, and the texts themselves, most of them I don't think would hold up just as text or as poetry or as whatever. I think they need the rest of the things that go around them – the other objects or the aesthetic treatments or the context of presentation – in order to become meaningful. And one of the things that's interesting about this move to online that we're being forced through due to the closure of institutions and isolation, is that, well, the museums struggled to figure out how to present work online that was never meant to be seen that way, and to change its context, which changes its meaning. I think there's massive opportunity in starting to think about how to make work targeted at this new context like that exists natively in this kind of distributed way, which is not a new thing. People have been doing that. There's, like I said before, net artists and, lots of people who make art that's targeted at the internet or targeted at different media platforms. But this feels like an opportunity for more people or more of us to start thinking in that way and start to really like push at the boundaries and kind of assumptions baked into the networks that we exist within. So that's actually something that I find kind of exciting, and I'm starting to think about and work on. Closing Jorge: Well, that's a fantastic place to wrap up our conversation, because my next question to you is, “and where can folks follow up with you to find out what you're up to and is your art online in ways that folks could experience it?” Matt: A little bit of it is. You know, having learned how to make websites in the mid-nineties at the birth of the internet, I've never actually had a website of my own, because I've never happy with them and I never finished them, or like I'll finish part of it and then not put any content up. So, I am working actively right now and taking advantage of this time to make a website for myself. So, you can find my nascent website with very little content, but I'm going to be adding more every day at emenel.ca. Emenel, which are my initials spelled out phonetically, is also where you can find me on just about everything. I'm probably most active on Instagram these days, and I do post pictures of my work and work in progress on Instagram. And yeah, emenel.ca is my, it will be my website. It's there now, but there's not a lot of new content on it yet. I'm working on documenting some work and writing some stuff to put up there. Jorge: And I want to make a plug for your music as well. Matt: Oh yeah. Thanks! On my website there are links to my music projects. But I have, I have kind of three active projects right now. One is called New Tendencies, which is actually named after an Eastern European art movement from the sixties to the late seventies that was one of the first kind of computational art groups. So yeah, New Tendencies is kind of my more experimental music. I have a group called Soft Thoughts, which is kind of an ambient, soundscape kind of thing with two other musicians. And then I just started doing something I haven't done in a long time, but I started making, kind of like old school, minimal techno again, under the name Ma, M-A, and that's also on Bandcamp. But there's links to all these things on my website, or you can find them on Bandcamp, some of it's on Spotify, et cetera, but a lot of it's not. A lot of it's just on Bandcamp. Jorge: Well. Fantastic. I will include all of those in the show notes. It was such a pleasure having you on, Matt. Matt: Oh, I always love our conversations and I'm happy to talk anytime.

In this episode, I interview Carsten Beck, who heads up research at the famous Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). I've known him for years, and we've given speeches together in various parts of the world over the last decade. He also kindly gave highly insightful quotes for my books. CIFS specialises in scenario planning and trend analysis for clients in a wide number of countries inc: the US, Norway, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, The Czech Republic, Dubai, China and Japan. (In the podcast, we discuss his 'tech optimism' in a C19 world where trust is of paramount importance, and of his views regarding a wide array of trend forecasting issues...) Contact him via www.cifs.dk.

In this episode Alice is joined by world renowned trend specialist, best selling author and speaker, John Sanei. He talks all about the current human reaction to the Global Pandemic we are all facing right now, HOW we need to change our own state in order to thrive, what the future narrative could entail, what this current crisis is showing us and a shift in perspective we all need. His e-book FutureNOW is already out about the current pandemic, with part 2 and 3 to follow suit soon. Link below to download free now https://johnsanei.com/books/ John Sanei (Sah-nay) is a Knowledge Mercenary who travels the globe to uncover the lessons needed to uplift communities and help humanity thrive. His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa's first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. Author of best-sellers What's Your Moonshot?, Magnetiize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connectors the curious to leading thinkers. Despite this success, John still freely shares his passion and excitement through his signature videos – find him online and start upgrading your perspective. www.johnsanei.com        

John Sanei is a best-selling author, Singularity University faculty member, global speaker and trend specialist. His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa’s first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. Author of best-sellers What’s Your Moonshot, Magnetize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connects the curious to leading thinkers. Noteworthy questions: What is the quantum world? (14:57) How can we become exponential thinkers? (18:57) Where is the balance in future-thinking? (25:04) How can we prepare for the future? (29:22) Key takeaways You will never be gifted or celebrated when you stay in your comfort zone. The only way to be exponential is to be unique in the skillset and the value you add into the world. Thinking exponentially puts too much pressure on us. Allow your heart and your curiosity to make decisions. The dreamer of the dream creates the reality. 90% of the world is addicted to anxiety and worry. Reach out to John: Website: https://johnsanei.com/ Website: https://futureselfacademy.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/IamJohnSanei Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnsanei HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE PODCAST? -> This show grows and impacts people only because of awesome people like you! To impact more people, please subscribe, share & review this podcast on your preferred platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, RadioPublic, TuneIn, PocketCast & Castro Subscribe to the show for lots more to come! New episodes every Monday. If you enjoyed this episode, please visit http://exploringpossibility.co.za/ for more episodes, follow us here https://www.instagram.com/exploringpossibility/ or join the community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/exploringpossibility --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exploringpossibility/message

Carsten Beck er direktør ved Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies og en av Danmarks mest poplulære foredragsholdere. Han er spesialist innen megatrender og "The Future of Retail.Tema:Hva er den kortsiktige effekten?Hvordan vil dette påvirke innovasjon?Hvilke megatrender forsterkes?Hva vil dette ha å si for globale forsyningskjeder?Hva bør bedriftseiere gjøre?Hva bør ansatte gjøre?Hvordan vil dette påvirke retail?+ mye, mye mer.Programleder: Lucas Weldeghebriel, journalist og gründer i Shifter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Uncovering key strategies to become future-ready in business and all areas of life with John Sanei. John is a best-selling author and Singularity University faculty member, with insights that stem from a deep understanding in psychology, tech and disruption. In this episode, we explore how to follow our curiosity and approach the future with all the creativity, flexibility and optimism that it deserves. His latest book is called FOREsight, check it out here: How do we thrive in a fast-changing world in which we are torn between the rigid rules of industrial society and the flexible creativity that the future demands, between the certainty and safety of yesterday and the freedom and anxiety of tomorrow? FOREsight is a collection of 20 scenarios that combine human psychology and futurism to help you connect the invisible dots between the reality we perceive and the abundant, optimistic future we can create. His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa’s first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. Hope you enjoy this session, please comment below and let us know your feedback on the topic and what you think.

"I define creativity as the ability to toggle between wonder and rigour - and ultimately to create novel value." (#89) In this Human Intelligence-focused episode, Natalie Nixon, Creativity Strategist & President of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC, talks about Design-Thinking, Strategy and Change-Management. Using her "3i Creativity Framework" she outlines competing narratives for the new world ahead, and explains why creativity should be a core competency for the future of work.     GIVE FEEDBACK. How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.   TALKING POINTS Why creativity should be a core competency for the future of work. The 3 elements (The “3i Creativity Framework”).  Creativity as the new competitive advantage. Hybrid Thinking in action. “T-shaped” versus the “pi-shaped” thinker. It’s a prerequisite for the 4th Industrial Revolution (the one we’re in now). The 2 competing narratives for the new world ahead. Why creativity is the essential foundational element. The data points that fleshed this out. Typical questions about creativity.   OUR GUEST. Natalie Nixon advises leaders on change management at publicly traded and privately held corporations as well as non-profits. She helps them design optimal ways to leverage creativity, sustain innovation and achieve priority business goals—resulting in happier customers and employees. Natalie is a published author (Strategic Design Thinking and INC online magazine) and a global speaker represented by the BigSpeak speakers bureau. Her public speaking invitations have included CUSP, Business Innovation Factory, 360 Possibles (Saint Malo, France), Creative Mornings, TEDx Philadelphia, The Copenhagen Institute for Interactive Design, The European Innovation Academy (Nice, France), SEB Bank (Tallinn, Estonia), FUSE and the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference. She is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in social innovation and design thinking and a Senior Advisor at Econsult Solutions. She has a background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design. She is certified as a foresight practitioner by the Institute for the Future and in charrette facilitation by the National Charrette Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Natalie received her PhD from the University of Westminster in design management, and her AB (cum laude) from Vassar College in anthropology and Africana Studies. She has a new book coming out in mid 2020 about the new creativity Called “The Creativity Leap”.   LINKS. Consider a short MBA Express "Creativity and Innovation" course via our AICPA Store. Also on the CGMA Store. Read Natalie's articles on INC.com Visit Natalie's website at www. Figure8thinking.com    ABOUT OUR PODCAST The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful. Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player. Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store. Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News   SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK. Know someone who'd enjoy this topic? Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections.  Recommend it to your  LinkedIn connections.  Send to  Twitter.  Auto-share on your  Facebook page.  Let someone know via  email.  ©2019 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

Today's episode will be a replay of my interview with Peter Ankerstjerne, 2nd vice chair of IFMA board of directors and Founder / Director Service Marketing International IVS. At the time of the interview he was the CMO at ISS, providing quality experiences for all of the 500,000 employees at ISS and the clients they serve. He speaks about how ISS adopted the Vested approach, about the change that is happening in facilities management and how it is affecting the focus on Recruiting and Retention. He covers the use of use of technology like IoT in facility management, and last but not least, the importance of Service Management. Find out more about Peter Ankerstjerne: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-ankerstjerne-1aa9121 (LinkedIn) http://www.ifma.org/ (International Facility Management Association) https://www.wework.com/ (WeWork) https://servicefutures.com/new-iss-2020-vision-research-the-future-of-work-workforce-and-workplace/ (To download the ISS 2020 Vision Capstone Book HERE) Related Episodes http://www.constructrr.com/ep38/ (The Future of Work with Jeff Saunders) from the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies  http://www.constructrr.com/ep53/ (Maximize Innovation through the Vested Way) http://www.constructrr.com/ep54/ (Orignal Episode ) Music By: Epic Music Supervision: Show Notes: http://constructrr.com/petera (www.constructrr.com/petera)

Simon Ostergaard, Futurist from the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies https://cifs.dk/ joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to talk about the Future of Trust.  

Have you ever wished you or your team could be more creative?  Would you like your team to come up with different ways to solve problems?  Do you think that only certain people have that kind of creativity?  Would you like to ‘turn a dial’ and become more focused or creative?   My Guest: Balder Onarheim, CEO of PlatoScience If so, this is the podcast for you.  Balder Onarheim, CEO of PlatoScience, will break down how to tap into your creativity and the creativity of your team.  The good news is that it is not magical – everyone has the ability to be creative. Balder Onarheim is a serial entrepreneur and former associate professor in creativity at the Technical University of Denmark. He is the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity and CEO at PlatoScience: making the world’s first creativity boosting headset. Balder’s expertise lies within a neurologically based understanding of creativity, and methods to use this understanding to make people better problem solvers. He is a popular speaker with talks at prestigious conferences and universities around the world, and more than 300k people has seen his TEDx talk “3 tools to become more creative Podcast Highlights: Balder has been working with Neurobiologists to understand what creativity is and how it works from a neuroscience perspective so that they can help all of us be more creative.    We all have creativity, it is everywhere – the secret is learning how to tap into those abilities. The first step for leaders is to acknowledge the importance of creativity, as simple as that sounds.  When leaders have a mindset that some employees are creative, and others are not, they treat employees differently and can miss out on the creativity of their whole team.  Realizing that creativity is a basic human skill that we all have is important.  It is a matter of nurturing it, training it and using it for the right purpose in the right point in time.  By doing this you can make creativity part of your everyday work. After you acknowledge that creativity is a crucial skill, using it every day in small ways is important to create that habit.  How many little ways can you encourage creativity?  For example, setting up rules like ‘we need one bad idea for every good idea’.  When you use this approach across the whole organization, it can help people re-analyze the way they solve problems.  There are 5 cognitive traits associated with Neurocreativity, they are: Priming Cognitive Inhibition Remote Associations Fixation Incubation The first is priming, setting the stage for what you want,  on a management level it could be asking the team for alternative solutions and setting that expectation to think differently.  Avoid giving your own idea first or an example of an idea because it can lead people to only think of that type of solution for the program.  The key is to mix it up, keeping it random.  A few ideas to get yourself to think more creatively: Go to Wikipedia and select Random Article on the navigation, which can spark creativity because you will get a piece of information you would not normally have read. (Balder explains more about this in his TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-YScywp6AU )  Take a different route back and forth to work. Grab a random book off your bookcase, flip to a page, have a short read and then go back to what you were doing. The information we take in shapes the ideas we will have.  Shaking it up allows you to have new thoughts that allow you to think creatively. The second trait is cognitive inhibition – it is a controlling system in our brain to keep us from being overloaded with information.  It works to restrict the amount of information you get access to, keeping us sane!  For most of us it works overtime and the downside is that it can get rid of new information that can lead to new ideas.  Remote associations is the third cognitive trait associated with neuro-creativity.  The associative network is where all our thoughts and memories are stored.  Think of it like the internet as a whole that can link to multiple websites, everything is connected, it is just a matter of how many steps are needed to connect it.  For example, if I say ‘dog’, your brain will most likely bring up the concept of a cat, it is closely associated.  Creativity is a lot about finding those remote associations, so the strategy is to find any method you have to get to those remote associations that can help you think more creatively about the problem you are working on.  Creativity is about combining things that are normally not related.  So, how can I be more creative?  The more you simply understand neuro-creativity, the more you can apply and tap into it.  Awareness is the key and the first step.  Understanding what creativity is and how it works, then training yourself to use that knowledge through practice. Fixation is the fourth cognitive trait and we have all experienced this.  For example, when you can’t get your head off a certain topic or a certain word.  It is the ‘tip of the tongue’ effect when you are trying to remember the name of someone and you get it close….but not right.  Suddenly it becomes impossible to get the right word because your brain gets fixated on this other name which is close but not quite there.  You are zooming in on this part of your associative network and therefore you can’t see the right word.  The more you associate one thought with another, the stronger connected they become.  When you get fixated, the best thing to do is to stop thinking about it and think about something else, take a walk or clear your head another way.  This is the last trait – incubation. Incubation – these breaks we discussed are necessary for you to tap into the remote associations that allow you to be more creative.  Step away from the problem you are working on and start thinking of something else.  We can’t be creative all the time – the key is to be intentional about when you want to be creative and then using these concepts and acting differently to get the creativity.  As a leader, as yourself ‘Do we need to emphasize creativity right now?’  If yes, what are the best methods for you to do so?   If you are trying to be creative think about how you are setting up the environment. How often do you need these breaks?  Studies range from 20 minutes to one hour before needing a break and starting to think about something else or just shifting tasks. What do you do on that break?  It goes back to priming, ask yourself what sort of priming will help you get to the next stage?  If you or the team is getting fixated, get up physically, go outside if you can, do some exercises.  Balder does squats with his team to get some circulation going when this happens.  The key is doing something or thinking about something differently.  These can be social breaks where you are checking in with a spouse or talking to your peers about other outside interests. We all have the ability to be creative and as leaders we can create environments that will unleash it for our teams.  Once you get started, creativity can be addicting, and your team will continue to be creative if you continue to encourage it.  The key is to GET STARTED!! One thing that you could do today – acknowledge the importance of habits for yourself at home and in the workplace.  We tend to be single minded about this if we are allowed to do so.  Be conscious about the importance of breaking some of these habits when you want to be more creative.  For example, do you always search the same websites or resources when looking for answers to a problem?  Think about your team meetings, if you always have them in the same room, in the same seats, looking in the same direction with the same agenda and order of speaking, these influence you and your team.  If you want to be more creative, change something up here.  So, the starting point for creativity is to acknowledge the importance of random inputs and changing habits. Quick tip – the direction you look out from your desk has an impact on your creativity scores.  Just by turning the chair 90 degrees and looking in a different direction can help stimulate creativity.  It can be that simple. What are the technological advances you are working on?  They have been working on ways to get to your brain from the outside for the last three years by sending weak electrical impulses through the brain which allows you to slightly change the brain’s ability to perform  a task in a certain region of the brain, essentially trying to hijack a brain function.  They have over 150 products in the market today that you can use.  Customers range from programmers, lawyers, students, engineers, management consultant, etc. who want to focus on being creative using one of their unique headsets.  The way it works is that you use the app to pick the thinking style you would like that would be most beneficial to the task you are working on and the headset will replicate the balancing of the brain for that type of task.  If you want to know more and get your own headset go to https://platoscience.com/platowork/ What are some things that leaders should do when they are planning to have these leadership off-sites focused on being creative?  There are two ways that Balder and the team have worked with numerous organizations to accomplish this: Assumption Dumption – bring out all the assumptions people have about the problem you are trying to solve out in the open. Most of these are unspoken and would not be shared any other way.  Discuss them and sort them by truth, relevance or those things that need to be just kept in mind.  Scrap those assumptions that are outdated or just rumors.  This helps to eliminate thoughts that limit their take on the problem – getting rid of the old ghosts! Negative Brainstorm – flip the problem around and ask people to come up with diverse possible solutions that they think are bad ideas. This brings some humor into the meeting and you will find most of the bad ideas can bring something useful to the table.  You take the absolutely worst ideas that come up and analyze them – what makes them bad as well as what are the positive elements.  Challenge people to remove the bad things and keep the good things and you end up coming up with a good idea that comes from a terrible idea.  It is fun, gets people to think about the problem in different ways.  It always brings out new good ideas that you would normally never dare to bring up if you were asked to come up with only good ideas.  NEXT STEPS FOR YOU! I hope that you have enjoyed this and can start using some of these great techniques to become more creative and create the right environment for your team.  Make sure to subscribe to be alerted to ongoing podcasts. I work with leaders and their teams to apply these concepts, grow themselves, their teams and their business.  Schedule a free 30 minute consultation here to see if I can help you, your team and/or your organization.  You can reach me, Jill Windelspecht, directly by email at jillwindel@TalentSpecialists.net and visit my website at www.TalentSpecialists.net. Resources: PlatoScience - https://platoscience.com/ 3 tools to become more creative - TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-YScywp6AU PlatoWork Headset - https://platoscience.com/platowork/  

Businesses that thrive long-term continue to innovate, even when they are at the top of their game. If the Kodaks of the world don't disrupt themselves, someone else certainly will. So, the question becomes, how does an organization continue to drive growth and generate new ideas—even if there is no one in the rearview mirror? Dr. Natalie Nixon contends that the key to accelerating innovation lies in the ebb and flow between rigor and wonder. Dr. Nixon is the Founder and Principal at Figure 8 Thinking, a consultancy dedicated to helping organizations accelerate innovation by connecting the dots between creativity and strategy. A design strategist and hybrid thinker, she leverages her background in service design, anthropology and fashion to support clients in cultural transformation, leadership development, and team collaboration. Nixon is also a Fellow at the Paris d.School and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, and she created the Strategic Design MBA program at Philadelphia University. Nixon is a frequent contributor to Inc. magazine, and she has been a featured speaker at the Business Innovation Factory, 360 Possibilities and The Copenhagen Institute for Interactive Design. Today, Nixon shares the connection between her background in anthropology and fashion, explaining how she sees the world from a ‘worm's eye view.' She discusses how her business, Figure 8 Thinking, evolved from a talk on improvising at work she delivered at TEDx Philadelphia in 2014. Nixon describes how companies can accelerate innovation by driving growth based on consumer needs, hiring from a non-traditional wheelhouse, and benchmarking progress against a wide variety of sectors. Listen in for Nixon's insight around kinesthetic learning and the balance between wonder and rigor.   Key Interview Takeaways Drive the growth of your business based on the needs of the consumer. Nixon contends that if you focus on the end-user, profitability, efficiency and productivity will follow. Ensure thought diversity by hiring from a variety of sectors. More diverse inputs result in more innovative outputs, so companies willing to hire anthropologists, psychologists and artists will naturally accelerate innovation. Benchmark your team against other sectors. Rather than simply making comparisons with others in your industry, Nixon suggests casting a wider net to determine what ‘best in class' really means. A superiority complex can be fatal. Nixon argues that companies like Kodak fail when they lose their curiosity. A false sense of security and resistance to change leaves a company ripe for disruption. Physical activity helps balance the mind. Nixon's recent return to the dance studio is fueling her creativity and outlook in a positive way. Rigor cannot be sustained without wonder. Corporate culture emphasizes structure and processes, but problem-solving only happens when we balance that rigor with the time to daydream—to pause and suppose. Connect with Dr. Natalie Nixon Figure 8 Thinking Dr. Nixon on BigSpeak Resources Dr. Nixon at TEDx Philadelphia Strategic Design Thinking: Innovation in Products, Services, Experiences and Beyond edited by Natalie Nixon Dr. Nixon's Column in Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Saunders, Director at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, joins Ian for part 2 of the Workplace Matters Danish workplace mini-feature. CIFS, who have been around since the 60s, recently completed a seven-year six book collaboration with facilities services giant ISS with the publication of their ‘Future of Work, Workforce and Workplace’ capstone white book. Enjoy! They discuss a particular future scenarios matrix which is developed in the first book, and then revisited in the sixth capstone book. It shows four possible futures, considering primarily the extent of automation versus the prioritisation of sustainability, which are called ‘fragmented world’, ‘capitalism reinvented’, ‘sustainable business’ and ‘the great transformation’. As Jeff explains, these are possible scenarios which were created at the beginning of the collaboration to engage with future issues. They’re revisited in the most recent capstone book to reflect longitudinally about changes and timescales. Well worth a look... Some links to take you deeper: Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies website ISS 2020 vision white book series plus lots of other content from servicefutures.com ISS business forum video (with Peter, Ian and Jeff all speaking, with others) here BIFM manifesto for change information

The sixth TALK in Heartland Podcast is a FUTURE TALK and interview from Heartland 2017 and it's about age research.   The British biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey is one of the most spectacular futurists in the world. He is known for his view that medical technology will enable human beings to live almost indefinitely. In this talk he gives insights into what age is; what happens to the body when we age? And what can we do about stopping the aging process? In continuation of these questions Aubrey de Grey seeks to give the audience answers to why it is important to research age and especially age related disease. The talk is followed by an interview by Claus Kjeldsen who is a futurist and CEO of Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.   In the interview Grey talks about the lack of funding on age related disease and why it is essential that age research gain more attention. He also explains how we can benefit from the age research and therapy that already exists.   Future talks 2017 was made in collaboration with SCENARIO magazine and was supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Mange har nok prøvet at skulle være kreative på kommando i workshops, hvor postit-sedlerne flyver som sne i lokalet og alle forsøger at vælte ideer af sig.Men kreativitet i fællesskab kan også være mange andre ting - især når det handler om teams, der ikke bare skal finde på nyt eller designe sammen på fællesmøder med ujævne mellemrum, men helst fungere som en skabende enhed i lange processer og forløb. Mary og David Sherwin er både ægtepar og kollege, og så er de eksperter i gruppearbejde når det gælder kreative fag. Jeg mødte dem, da de holdt kursus på Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design, til en snak om at finde en fælles forståelse, om at kortlægge de gensidige relationer på et team, og om at være ægtepar der også skal få et fælles arbejdsliv til at hænge sammen.. Links Mary og David skriver sammen på sitet Ask The Sherwins Et af deres værktøjer er det såkaldte Team Words carddeck med ord til fælles diskussion Kommer snart: mere information om den kommende bog “Turning People Into Teams” “Big Things vs small things” - gode råd i seneste nyhedsbrev - om ikke at have for store ambitioner Vi taler lidt om at holde gode møder - det har jeg også tidligere talt med Hans Ravnkjær om her i work.flow David har brugt principperne i BJ Foggs såkaldte Tiny Habits-program til at give sig selv gode vaner, som fx at lave yoga hver morgen Harvest - en tjeneste der kan hjælpe med at holde styr på tiden (og få penge for den, hvis man arbejder på faktura) Scrivener - populært skriveværktøj til de fleste platforme, som Mary sværger til når hun selv skal til tasterne De tre tips (som i dag er 4) Mary: Spil flere videospil! Hun anbefaler især for tiden Horizon Zero Dawn på Playstation Mary og David: Læs flere bøger. En af deres yndlingsromaner er science fiction-klassikeren Hyperion af Dan Simmons (lyt også ScifiSnak-episode om bogen her!) David: Lad nu være med at planlægge møder lige op og ned af hinanden… Hav en notesbog på sengebordet, hvor du skriver tanker fra dagen og ting du skal huske i morgen - for at få dem ud af hovedet inden du skal sove

Peter Ankerstjerne, Chief Marketing Officer at ISS talks with us about how iSS is adopting the Vested approach, change that is happening in facilities management is affecting the focus on Recruiting and Retention/ Human Resources and the use of technology like IoT, and last but not least the importance of Service Management. You will get a sense that Peter genuinely loves what he does, he passionate and invested in providing quality experiences for all of the 500,000+ employees at ISS and the clients they serve. https://servicefutures.com/new-iss-2020-vision-research-the-future-of-work-workforce-and-workplace/ (To download the ISS 2020 Vision Capstone Book HERE) How to learn more about ISS and Peter Ankerstjerne.  https://servicefutures.com/ (ISS Blog)  https://www.ifma.org/ (International Facilities Management Association ) https://betterworkplaces.issworld.com/ (ISS Whitebooks ) Related Episodes http://www.constructrr.com/ep38/ (The Future of Work with Jeff Saunders) from the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies  http://www.constructrr.com/ep53/ (Maximize Innovation through the Vested Way ) Music By: Epic Music Supervision: Show Notes: http://www.constructrr.com/ep54 (www.constructrr.com/ep54)

Jeff Saunders. He is the Director at http://cifs.dk/ (Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies). He talks with us about the work he is does at the Institute and some of the major research he has done on the Future thinking for work. We dig into megatrends, the future of outsourcing and co-sourcing as the interdependent contracting model. Lastly we talk about the 8 challenges for the future and how to navigate through these challenges. There is so much value packed into this interview. Without further ado, here is my interview with Jeff Saunders. Resources: http://cifs.dk/publications/scenario-magazine/2006/fo-52006/futureorientation-52006/why-megatrends-matter/Commercialization (Megatrends ) http://www.publications.issworld.com/ISS/External/issworld/White_papers/2020_New_Ways_of_Working/ (8 Challenges for the future) http://cifs.dk/ (Copenhagen Institute) http://betterworkplaces.issworld.com/ (ISSworld Better workplaces) You can listen to my interview with Dr. Dean Kashiwagi http://www.constructrr.com/ep33/ (here). Music By: Epic Music Supervision Show Notes: Constructrr.com/ep38

From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Yasaman Sheri, a designer with Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design and Microsoft Hololens looks at how technological advancements in computer vision, AR VR, artificial intelligence and biosensing are increasingly redefining our concept of materials, tools and processes.

STORM Conversations featuring SCENARIO MAGAZINE. 30 minutes of friendly conversation at the local café between journalist Esben Schjørring, author Katrine K. Pedersen and captain Martin Tamm Andersen featuring the article “The Post-factual Society” from Scenario Magazine issue 01 2017 published by Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (www.scenariomagazine.com). Recorded at Café Dyrehaven in Copenhagen. Hosted by Martin Tamm Andersen. Directed and produced by Mette Ohlendorff & René Ezra.

I love new technology and I just heard about this recently. It's not available to the general public yet, but it's a good possibility that you'll see this (or something similar) in the future.   This is a project called Heat Harvest. The Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design gave 12 people a couple of weeks to come [...] Read more » The post Charge your phone with a cup of coffee (someday) first appeared on The Computer Tutor.Download Ashford for WordPress

Elmar Theveßen, Deputy Editor and Head of News and Current Affairs of German public television ZDF talks to MA student Jonathan Noy about Prism, the NSA and US intelligence in the wake of the Snowden leaks. Elmar spoke at a meeting of the Study Group on Intelligence at RUSI. Elmar Theveßen has also authored five books: Schläfer mitten unter uns (2002), Die Bush-Bilanz (2004), Terroralarm (2005), Al-Quaida: Wissen, was stimmt (2009), and Nine Eleven: Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte (2011). Jonathan Noy also talked to Dr Adam Svendson who is an intelligence and defence strategist, educator, researcher, and Associate Consultant at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Denmark (www.cifs.dk). His publications include the books: 'Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror: Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11' (Routledge, 2010), 'Understanding the Globalization of Intelligence', and 'The Professionalization of Intelligence Cooperation: Fashioning Method Out of Mayhem', both (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). And: 'Where are they now?" Jenny Tobias, MA Conflict, Security and Development (2012), talks about her job at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. Presented by Dr Peter Busch DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.