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_____Future Imaginaries____
20-23 September 2016 at University of the Arts London
UAL brings together influential thinkers and doers to share perspectives on
some of the key sites where visions for the future are contested and
realized.
By focusing on interfaces, materials, policies and the kinds of
expertise required
to generate and explore their futures, these events will challenge
audiences to examine the futures that their work brings into being.
Innovation is usually associated with novel products, services, processes
and technologies – but these co-exist with other elements of the ecosystem.
Over a week within London Design Festival, the UAL Innovation Insights Hub
draws a range of perspectives together to help designers, researchers and
their collaborators and publics think through some of the implications of
the new sites for applying designerly expertise.
Material Imaginaries
<http://system.spektrix.com/platformtheatre/website/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=24807&resize=true>
20 September 6pm-8pm, Central Saint Martins
Speakers: Carole Collet, Central Saint Martins, UAL and Susanne Kuechler,
UCL
How does contemporary design connecting with bioscience shape our
understandings of materiality and embodiment? To what extent do new
materials require or suggest new ways of living and new identities?
Interface Imaginaries
<http://system.spektrix.com/platformtheatre/website/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=24808&resize=true>
21 September 6pm-8pm, London College of Fashion
Speaker: James Ash, University of Newcastle
Respondent: Betti Marenko, Central Saint Martins, UAL
The work of designing interfaces poses questions about what kinds of human
experience are possible or desirable? What kinds of subjectivities are
constructed?
Expertise Imaginaries
<http://system.spektrix.com/platformtheatre/website/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=25007&resize=true>
22 September 6pm-8pm, Central Saint Martins
Speakers: Marc Ventresca, Said Business School, University of Oxford, and Glenn
Robert, King’s College London
Chair: Lucy Kimbell, UAL
How does Design Thinking practice challenge conventional ideas of expertise
and knowledge? What is brought into view and what is excluded through
practice-based research or research-based practice and to what extent is
innovation tied to the development of new kinds of expertise?
Policy Imaginaries Workshop
<http://system.spektrix.com/platformtheatre/website/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=25207&resize=true>
23 September 10am-1pm, Central Saint Martins
Workshop Leaders: Noah Raford, Museum of the Future Foundation, UAE and
Lucy Kimbell, UAL with special guests from the Kings Policy Institute
This workshop brings together practitioners and researchers to explore what
kinds of policy worlds are brought into being through ‘government
innovation’. During the workshop participants will have an opportunity to
learn about and discuss new developments at the intersection of design and
policy innovation in relation to obesity and nutritional justice.
Policy Imaginaries
<http://system.spektrix.com/platformtheatre/website/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=25407&resize=true>
23 September 5pm-7pm, Central Saint Martins
Speaker: Noah Raford, Museum of the Future Foundation, UAE
To what extent can and should government propose future visions for
society? What are the implications of constructing policy imaginaries via
digital platforms, speculative devices and data science?
To book tickets (GBP 5 or GBP 3 for concessions for each event), visit
http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2016/9/20/Future-Imaginaries-series/
In case of queries, please contact Naomi Bailey-Cooper <
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Many thanks
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Lucy Kimbell
Director, Innovation Insights Hub and Professor of Contemporary Design
Practices, University of the Arts London
Service Innovation Handbook (2014) published by BIS Publishers
AHRC design research fellow, Policy Lab, Cabinet Office
Associate fellow, Said Business School
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