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Kim De Vidts

Futures Researcher
Open Time, Erasmus University College Brussels

Presentation | Creating artifacts from four futures of Brussels 2060.

Kim De Vidts is a structural futures researcher at the centre of expertise “Applied Futures Research – Open Time”, at the Erasmus University College in Brussels. While instructing political science at Hawaii Pacific University and working for the American Intelligence community, she equally completed her PhD. This under the direct mentorship of Jim Dator at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where her interest in two of her passions thrived: the application of the Manoa approach, and the in-depth study of contemporary and futures notions of nationalism and the concept of identity within a European context. Kim’s past professional experiences in both change management and futures studies allow her to manage expectations within both domains, while facilitating a convergence between both if so desired. 

This presentation revisits notions of civic versus ethnic nationalism to envision what the future of identity may develop into by 2060 applying the Manoa School of Futures Studies’ four generic futures methodology, bringing in an ID card as an artifact from the future.

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Drawbot

Artist/Robot

Performance | A drawing performance with Tomi Dufva

Drawbot has the outside of a cigare box. She has an Arduino-core and two gear motors. She is equipped with distance sensors and can also power itself if needed. Drawbot is interested in executing orders as well as randomness.

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Mikko Dufva

Research Scientist
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

Game introduction | FOSTER-ERM

Mikko Dufva is a research scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd working in the field of foresight. He has done projects related to the futures of work, synthetic biology, platform economy, forestry, mining and use of renewable energy. He is a Doctor of Science in Technology and his dissertation was about knowledge creation in foresight from a systems perspective. He has broad methodological expertise ranging from systems thinking, decision analysis and optimization to interactive planning, scenario analysis and participatory methods. His current research interests include experiential foresight and post-normal times.

A key challenge in foresight is maintaining a balance between long-term visions and present-day relevance. Images of futures have to be demystified and interpreted in the present context.  This presentation reflects upon the challenges faced when creating an educational board game focused on business model development in the context of raw materials and circular economy. The presentation closes with a game session for between 8 and 16 people.

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Tomi Dufva

Visual Artist
 Department of Art at Aalto University

Performance | A drawing performance

Tomi Dufva is visual artist and a doctoral candidate at the Department of Art at Aalto University. He has a master’s degree in fine arts as well as from art education. He is also a co-founder of art & craft school Robotti which gives children teaching on art and technology. His research and art deals with the questions of digitalization, art, and art education. He focuses on investigating creative coding as a tool in comprehending and gaining control of digital technologies.

A drawing performance to look at the future status of human experience.

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Yannick Dujardin

Futures Researcher
Erasmus University

Game Introduction | Shuffle the Future

Yannick Dujardin is a lecturer of Communication Research in Communication Management at the Erasmus University College. He is also Futures Researcher at the centre of expertise Applied Futures Research – Open Time. In the field of communication he has mainly studied games and narrativity in video games. He has a natural interest in storytelling and narrative media. An interest that, as an avid gamer itself, turns into a particular interest in storytelling in games. With Open Time, he is mainly engaged in gaming & simulations as research methods. Other than with his nose in (digital) books and behind his television screen with an Xbox controller in his hands, in the right conditions you can find him in the North Sea. Surfing is the last of his passions, which he has not yet been able to integrate into his job yet, but who knows what the future brings …

Yannick made the serious game Shuffle the Future, about young people’s behavior in a sustainable future, in a research project with Greenpeace. 

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Bridgette Engeler

Pracademic
Swinburne University; Incognito Sum

Trackmaker | The anomaly of design innovation in a post-growth and post-human world

Bridgette is a pracademic working across design, foresight and innovation at Swinburne University. Her work combines prospective thinking, research and strategy at the nexus of culture, futures, design and technology. Bridgette is the foresight lead for Geldom, a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the next generation condom.

Functionally and aesthetically, what is imagined we will be using, building and living in 25 years or more from today is mostly very different from now, yet in most ways those images are still grounded in our current paradigms of living, consuming, construction and community, with insufficient attention to feasibility and practicality.

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Karl Friðriksson

Chairman
Icelandic Center for Future Studies

Presentation |Futures for innovation in Iceland, the Fuzzy Front End

Karl Friðriksson is the chairman of the Icelandic Center for Future Studies and managing director of Human resources and marketing at the Innovation Center of Iceland. He has worked for decades in the fields of marketing, innovation, product development and future studies with emphases on scenario planning. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, future studies and clusters for companies and municipalities, as well as applied benchmarking. Karl is a certified project manager with a professional certification in the field of product development from The Product Development & Management Association in the USA and trained facilitator in field of cluster management from The European Foundation for Cluster Excellence He has authored host of articles, books and other publications in the field of management.

There is growing interest in probing the interaction of the disciplines of Innovation and the study of the future. There is evidence that there is added value in applying methods of Futures Studies at various phases of innovation, but not least of all in the pre-active phase of the development or at the Fuzzy Front End.

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Vincent Galante

Co-Founder and President; Co-Founder
The Pixel Shop; The Innovation Shop

Experiential | Prodigy AI

Vincent is co-founder and President at The Pixel Shop, a Toronto-based digital agency, and co-founder at The Innovation Shop. As an experienced and cross-functional strategist, information architect, and designer, he has played a prominent role in the creation of digital properties, applications, and campaigns for some of Canada’s most recognized brands across a wide range of sectors. Vince holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts (Visual Art) from York University, and is an MDeS candidate in Strategic Foresight and Innovation at OCAD University. He is a member of The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD), and serves as Chair of the Design Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC), a cross-disciplinary design think tank.

‘Prodigy’ is designed to examine the themes of artificial intelligence and the inevitable complexities that arise from the relationships between humans and anthropomorphized devices. Though most depictions of AI are dystopian, there are more nuanced and complex plausibilities that could emerge–ones that do not involve destruction but will challenge what it means to be human. How will we reconcile contrasting notions of ‘human’ and how will our decisions impact our lives? Are we prepared for this uncertain future? This 20-minute experiential future will be followed by a group discussion to critically examine the implication of such a future.

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Bram Goots

Photographer; Cameraman
Agence Future

Exhibition | ‘A Temporary Futures Institute’

Bram Goots grew up in Brussels before he moved to London in 1993 where he received a BA Fine Arts Multi-media from Middlesex University in 1999. As a free-lance photographer Bram shoots reportages for project developers, engineering offices and  architects. He was the set photographer on video-clips for different Belgian musicians and shortfilms. He is the house photographer for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp. He is a member of the international photographers’ collective OST and of the cooperative Picturetank since they were first established. Bram is responsible for the imagery for Agence Future and also for logistics as well as artistic interpretations and representations of the collection of images of the future brought together with this project. Bram was the second cameraman for the ‘ToekomstEN-AvenirS’ documentary and the director of photography for the pilot episode of the participatory television project Vill9 la serie. Since 2012 he has also worked as cameraman for a range of promotion, publicity films, musicians and visual artists.

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Nourhan Hegazy

Foresight Analyst/Idea Couture
OCAD University

Presentation | Generations : Assembly line of aging and meandering river

Nourhan is a design and foresight analyst enthusiastic about social and environmental impact. She’s worked on various multi-stakeholder projects that range from engaging women in tech to the future of giving, aging and nature. She previously lead an interdisciplinary design program in-between Cairo and Berlin as well as taught design research and human factors at OCAD University in Toronto. Nourhan has a B.Sc. (with high honors) in Product Design from the German University in Cairo and an MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University.

Generations : Assembly line of aging and meandering river