Design Innovations + Futurescapes
2021 AIGA Design Conference
Join us this fall for the biggest event of the year for creatives. The Design Conference is a different experience; we push the practice forward by asking the provocative questions and by challenging designers to think about the future.
Conversations
Design for the Next Context
Stuart Candy is a consulting futurist and a pioneer in experiential futures—interactions designed to evoke a sense of what various future scenarios might feel like to inhabit. Listen to his Pivot: AIGA Design Conference talk exploring the concept that ever act of design reinvents the world in some measure.
Retooling Our Political System
Jake Dunagan, managing director and global foresight lead for verynice.co and research affiliate at the Institute for the Future speaks at Gain: AIGA Design and Business Conference about an unprecedented opportunity to rethink and redesign our systems of governance for the future.
Humanity of the Machine
Brian David Johnson investigates how technology reflects the mission and values of the societies that design and create it at Gain: AIGA Design and Business Conference. His work called “futurecasting ” uses ethnographic field studies technology research trend data to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing.
Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders
The BPCL program, in partnership with Yale University, is designed to equip creative leaders to meet the challenges of management and give participants the skills and perspectives they need to reach the next levels in their careers.
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Show Your Work
Access to mentorship and honest, expert feedback is key to good design. AIGA's Portfolio Festival is the collaborative event of the year. Attendees get to witness, share, and discover great work from people across the world.
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Futurist Reading Recommendations
Speculative Everything
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby Write about how to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. MIT Press.
How To Future
Renowned futurists Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby teach you how to manage the daily flood of information and signals, and discern emergent patterns that have a direct impact on the direction of your business. Futuring is the art of anticipating and testing the trade-offs of different futures by making sense of key trends, signals and emerging patterns.
FutureThink
Future Think: How To Think Clearly In A Time Of Change by futurists Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown discusses concepts to challenge your internal assumptions and sensitize you to change.
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