PRIMER19 Workshop by Andrés Valencia The Future is Human: A Toolkit for Pro...
Event Information
Description
Join us for PRIMER19 Workshops Saturday, June 15, 2019!
All PRIMER19 workshops are open to the public as an extension of the PRIMER19 Conference programming occurring at Parsons, The New School on June 13-14, 2019*.
This year's PRIMER conference theme, FUTURES FOR ALL, highlights the wisdom and power of creating diverse spaces for interrogating the 'inevitable'. We intend to bring together participants from across industries and academia to share ideas, methods and projects that examine the reciprocal relationship between design, the world we live in, and the futures we want.
Workshop Info
Title: The Future is human, a toolkit for progress (Presented in Spanish)
Presenter: Andrés Valencia; Futurist at CHANGE Consulting
Andrés leads the futures division at Change Consulting, an innovation firm based in Guadalajara Mexico that works in Latin America to help organizations shape a new generation of products, services and business models. He is also President of the Design and Innovation Council in Mexico.
Change Consulting delivers value through global teams with three strong foundations: futures, human dynamics and strategic design, in order to help their clients positively change the way they think, act, and feel towards the future.
Andrés holds a Masters in Business Innovation (MBI) fromCEDIM The School of Design, spent his formative years as a Strategic Designer in Germany, and now works on several foresight, design thinking, strategy, storytelling and business programs. Currently he is an international consultant for brands in a diverse range of industries and sectors, both public and private.
Workshop Overview
This workshop is designed to share a toolkit to positively change the way people think, act and feel about the futures. Valencia and his team generate diegetic prototypes that can potentially become a next generation of innovations for human progress. Note: This workshop and its content will be presented in Spanish.
In a world with huge gaps between countries and societies, Valencia proposes a new way to foster progress in emerging contexts. By merging foresight, human dynamics and strategic design, we'll be able to develop a new generation of solutions with human profitability (products/services with positive impact on people's lives).
An advanced approach, tools and frameworks within Latin American contexts, the workshop is designed to inspire a new class of decisions that corrects the negative course of our coming reality.
Key Workshop Takeaways
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Awareness about the relevance of the future
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Tools to influence history
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Toolkit for progress in Latin America
Special Notes
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PRIMER19 workshops are scheduled for A.M. and P.M. While this workshop is currently scheduled for the A.M. time slot, the final starting time may vary depending on scheduling needs. Workshop ticket holders will be notified accordingly.
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Attendees who purchase a PRIMER19 conference ticket receive a discount off of all PRIMER19 related workshops. Please check your confirmation email or contact theprimerconference@gmail.com for discount-related questions or problems.
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Student Tickers are available to purchase for individuals who (a) purchase using their official .edu email address AND (b) show a valid, current student ID/verification when checking into the conference and workshop.
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If you want to attend the PRIMER19 conference or affiliated workshops but are experiencing economic hardship, please visit the extenuating circumstances page on our website and we'd be happy to work with you!
Other PRIMER19 Workshops:
PRIMER19 Workshop by Andrés Valencia The Future is Human: A Toolkit for Progress
PRIMER19 Workshop by Frank Spencer: Wicked Opportunities: Innovation Through Foresight
PRIMER19 Workshop by Pierre Shaw & Kishan San: Platforms and Their Protagonists
PRIMER19 Workshop by Chirryl-Lee Ryan: Impact The World Isn't Ready For
PRIMER19 Workshop by Grace Turtle & Andreu Belsunces: Automated Control Wars
*What is PRIMER?
PRIMER conference was created to prepare you for the future and to equip you to help shape it. It is the annual conference (in the US and Europe) produced by the Design Futures Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in San Francisco, CA and the annual gathering for the Speculative Futures community with 20 (and growing) chapters worldwide.
We welcome anyone to join us! Conference attendees (and localized MeetUp members) span a wide array of designers, artists, technologists, makers, students, and organizations whose work focuses on questioning and rethinking our technologies, products, and systems, or proposes alternative narratives and future worlds.
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