Programme

The DDT programme combines standard conference formats with open, experimental and co-creative activities and social occasions. The first day at Square – Brussels Meeting Centre includes plenary sessions, panel discussions and paper presentations and activities in three parallel tracks.

There will be contributions on the development of specific futures projects, the work of local NGO’s in Africa, Latin America and Asia, research with local authorities, artistic research, co-creation, foresight for development and for social movements.

The second part of DDT is an unconference inside ‘A Temporary Futures Institute’ at M HKA with presentations, workshops, games, panels, training, performances, experiential futures, guided tours and an Open Space with room for reflection and exchange.

In the morning of Saturday June 17, a workshop session organised by the Association of Professional Futurists, and run by APF members Wendy Schultz and Andrew Curry, will use some innovative futures methods to explore the future of the museum. This hands-on workshop will run from 10.00 to 13.00 and will invite participants to use Schultz’s Manoa method to develop a range of exploratory scenarios, and VERGE to then deepen their understanding of the worlds they have created.

Teach the Future Europe will hold its first live gathering during the Open Space of Saturday June 17.

Our children go to school to prepare themselves for the future, but why don’t they learn about this future in the classroom? We, at Teach the Future, believe futures thinking is an important 21st century skill that should be part of the curricula of the future. Children need the skills to become the entrepreneur of their own future and that of the world around them. Don’t you agree?

We are looking for all innovators in education, change makers who care about teaching and futurists with a warm hart for education. Please join us at our first Teach the Future EU event where we will come together and discuss the future of education and how to integrate futures thinking into the classroom. The afternoon will be a mix of inspiration, hands-on action and getting to know likeminded spirits. You will leave inspired about the future of education, and will be provided with tools that will help make futures thinking an important part of your teaching.

We will come together and make futures thinking part of the curriculum all over Europe. Will you be part of the movement? Will you join us? Are you especially coming for this event register here so we will save a seat for you. We look forward to meeting you!

PRE-CONFERENCE – JUNE 14

19:00h Informal dinner

Bel Mundo is the social restaurant of the Atelier Groot Eiland (Big Island), a non-profit working on socialisation, integration and emancipation of unemployed in Brussels.
During the informal gathering it will also be possible to pre-register.

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DAY 1 – JUNE 15 – ACADEMIC

	DESIGN	DEVELOP	TRANSFORM
08:15	REGISTRATION
09:15	Organisers’ welcome BART DE BAERE (Director M HKA) ANN LANGENAKENS (Director of Academic Affairs, Erasmus University College) Introduction to the programme and a few starting questions MC Didier Raoul  (Roel Heremans)
09:45	Keynote JIM DATOR – Four Generic Images of the Future of the Manoa School
10:55	Trackmakers
	Bridgette Engeler The anomaly of design innovation in a post-growth and post-human world	Omar Ba Foresight for Africa and development agenda setting.	Eva De Smedt Co-creating the future of leisure time: A case study of Pasar
12:00	A story for everyone  – Kewulay Kamara
12:20	LUNCH
13:30	STEF OLLENBURG Presentation | A model for design and futures studies KELLY KORNET Casestudy | Ethnographic Experiential Futures: Combining ethnographic and experiential approaches to foresight KIM DE VIDTS Presentation | Creating artifacts from four futures of Brussels 2060. HELLEN KERR Casestudy | Creative State Michigan	KARL FRIÐRIKSSON Presentation | Futures for innovation in Iceland, the Fuzzy Front End JACQUES BARCIA Case study | Porto Digital’s Mind the Future, Brasil JOHN SWEENEY Case study | The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) JONTY KOEKEMOER Case study | The Future of Banking in South Africa towards 2055: disruptive innovation scenarios.	MEDINA ABDELKADER Presentation | Organisational Foresight AARON ROSA Casestudy | Boundary Objects and World-Tweening: Dynamic Entities across Alternative Futures PRATEEKSHA SINGH Case study | Going analogue: auto-ethnographic insights on being steeped in analogue DANIEL SCHIMMELPFENNIG Presentation | Choice architecture, complex and emerging issues
15:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	JESSICA BLAND & PAUL SKINNER Panel & fish bowl | Can a compelling narrative about the future also be the nexus for public debate? Panelists: Eric Joris, Freija Van Duijne, Cheryl Chung, Peter De Smedt		CESAR VILLANUEVA & MEIMEI SONG A Creative Peace Futures Workshop on futures of South China Sea
17:30	Landing with the transversal themes discussion Moderator: Ziaudin Sardar Discussants: Cesar Villanueva (transformative Peace), Medina Abdelkader (gender), Eric Isolo Yav (communities), Sheila Ochugboju (technology), Karl Fridricksson (innovation)
18:15	BUS TO ANTWERP

 

DAY 2 – UNCONFERENCE AT ATFI

DAY 3 – UNCONFERENCE AT ATFI