Against a backdrop of accelerating change and increasing uncertainty, the wellbeing and resilience of organizations, communities, and individuals depends on our ability to think deeply about the issues shaping our lives. Combining design and futures thinking can help us imagine what a possible future might look and feel like, and support decision-making and strategy-building today. Join this immersive workshop to rapidly prototype future scenarios. You’ll learn how to scaffold your imagination and explore potential shifts around the issues you care most about.
Light breakfast will be available. Capacity is limited; please arrive early to ensure your space in the workshop.
This workshop will be held twice during Skoll World Forum. This is the first of two.
Director, Situation Lab, Carnegie Mellon School of Design
Stuart Candy is an award-winning designer and educator who narrowly escaped a career in law to become a pioneer of experiential futures practice, augmenting the collective capacity for foresight by any means necessary. Bridging strategy, policy, art, and activism, his work has been exhibited, published, taught, and played internationally, appearing in museums, festivals, universities, and city streets, on the Discovery Channel, and in the pages of The Economist and Wired. He is currently Director of Situation Lab and an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Candy has helped communities, creatives, and leaders worldwide to articulate and shape their preferred futures, working with aligned organisations including the Omidyar Group, Obama Foundation, United States Conference of Mayors, University of Oxford, UNESCO, IDEO, Arup, Interface, Burning Man, Dubai Museum of the Future, and Cook Inlet Tribal Council. He is a founding member of the Foresight Advisory Board at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Switzerland), as well as a Fellow of the Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), INK (India), World Futures Studies Federation (France), and The Long Now Foundation (USA).
Strategic Designer and Facilitator, Situation Lab, Carnegie Mellon School of Design
Ceda is a design strategist and facilitator who makes sense of fuzzy human stuff to build better interactions, services & systems. Ceda is currently completing her Masters in Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Before making her way to design, she completed a double degree in bioethics & genetics, worked as a sexual health & relationships educator across Melbourne, and most recently, ran an educational maker space in Toronto.
