Design Futures Lecture Series

Previous events

From Data Visualisation to Data Manifestation

Thursday, November 14, 2013, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Dr. Kevin Walker, Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art

Lo-Fi & Hi-Touch in the Age of Hi-Tech

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Scott Doorley, creative director of the Stanford d.school.

Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Leila Takayama of Willow Garage.

Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids

Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 5:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Saul Griffith of Otherlab

The Extreme Craft Roadshow

Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, a blog which vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude, presents a fast-paced hour of the website’s “greatest hits”, proving that the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred.

Beyond Design Thinking

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

"Design is sexy; craft is frumpy." It's time to kill that particular trope, and it's time to bring them together, says Regina Connell, the founder and editor-in-chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine devoted to the craft of modern design.

Co-Imagining Futures

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future?

Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture.

Parul Vora (photo: Lane Hartwell, Wikimedia Foundation)

Design Futures: Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Design Futures Lecture: Chris Hecker

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Chris Hecker is a game developer and an outspoken advocate for pushing the current boundaries of design and interactivity.

Design Futures Lecture: How to Build a World

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

This talk is a dispatch from the frontier of world building — future creation and communication — from one of its pioneers. Stuart Candy (a.k.a. the sceptical futuryst) is a designer, consultant, writer, educator, and activist, and the senior foresight and innovation specialist at Arup.

Making Technology Meaningful: Bridging Research & Practice

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Dr. Mahad Ibrahim is a 2009 graduate of the School of Information's Ph.D. program. Ibrahim and Dr. Jaspal Sandhu are partners in the Gobee Group, a small, agile consultancy working to develop impact-oriented technology solutions through holistic design approaches. This talk will highlight the Gobee model of linking research and practice through presentation of current social impact engagements.