PRIMER19 Workshop by Chirryl-Lee Ryan: Impact The World Isn't Ready For
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: Impact the World Isn't Ready For
Presenter: Chirryl-Lee Ryan**; Podcsaster at This is HCD
Chi Ryan specializes in human-centered, experience-led design. Merging different design disciplines, she takes a transdisciplinary approach to exploring the intersection between business, technology and people to make meaningful things for humans - and humanity.
With almost 25 years industry experience across visual, digital, motion, industrial, service and almost every design in between, Chi has built and grown successful design teams across the globe. Since making her first website in the mid 90s, she’s helped everyone from hungry startups to global giants transform through design.
Based in NYC, Chi is the host of This is HCD, a podcast that explores the diversity and breadth of human-centered design, and she’s an active member of the design community, regularly coaching, teaching and speaking around the world. Previously, she worked as part of Idean, a global experience design company on a mission to improve people's lives through design, where she led their New York design practice.
**Due to unforeseen circumstances, Chirryl was unable to present her workshop this past fall at PRIMER EU, so we are thrilled to be able to host her this year at PRIMER19.
Workshop Overview
Do you think about the impact of what you make? Too often we get caught up in blue sky thinking and ignore the possibility that everything that could go wrong probably will. Great design happens with the best of intentions, but even ‘good' design doesn't always go according to plan…
The role design plays in business, economy, environment and culture has never been more important. Those involved in the design process are faced with both opportunity and responsibility: the opportunity to use design to deliver business value, and the responsibility that comes with bringing change to the world.
What are the consequences of design, and who is responsible? Great design happens with the best of intentions, but even ‘good' design doesn't always go according to plan. How can people involved in the process of designing products and services future proof outcomes and anticipate unknowns, so that what gets made doesn’t end up in the design dumpster?
During this speculative, ontological design workshop, we’ll use impact as seriously fun lens to think about the consequences of what we design.
Key Workshop Takeaways
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A seriously fun workshop format anyone can run with their own team the very next day
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Learn how to fram designoutcomes using impact as a design lens
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Build awareness and sustainability into design choices
Special Notes
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PRIMER19 workshops are scheduled for A.M. and P.M. While this workshop is currently scheduled for the P.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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