Futures Lounge: Preparing for the Future Through Speculative Design

Futures Lounge: Preparing for the Future Through Speculative Design

Futures Lounge: Preparing for the Future Through Speculative Design (YouTube & chill)

To celebrate the international Futures Day, New Things Co welcomes you to join us to watch Phil Balagtas’ recent presentation “Preparing for the Future Through Speculative Design“ published by Google Design.

Phil Balagtas is a futurist and educator, and founder of Design Futures Initiative, the organisation behind Speculative Futures meetups and PRIMER conference.

“Speculative Design is an approach that considers alternate futures for technology and society. Through prototyping and/or defining scenarios, important discussions about ethics or the impact of design on the environment and culture can be brought to the forefront of the design process.”

Schedule:
16.30 Doors open, drinks & snacks available
17:00 Presentation (video) starts
17:51 Discussion on the presentation and networking
20:00 Doors close

Place:
New Things Co HQ
Lönnrotinkatu 20, Helsinki

Welcome! RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/2312167875696814/ to help us estimate the number of people coming.