FUTURES x DESIGN INFO SESSION & AMA

Day01. Wednesday, July 07, 18:00-18:30 EDT

Futures x Design (FxD) is a two-day, immersive, design-driven workshop that provides a hands-on introduction to the basics of leveraging speculative futuring for personal and professional success.

In this talk, Instructors Jack Wilkinson and Doc Martens will describe our new Futures x Design framework (FxD), a methodology for moving through modalities and mindsets to extrapolate, create, and experience the implications of speculative future products, services, systems, and technologies so that you can better understand which are most preferable and build strategies to map your way to future realities. There will be time for questions and discussion at the end.

Doc (Dana) Martens is a designer, creative technologist, maker, teacher, life-long student, and geek working to educate and empower communities to embrace the potential of speculative practice to understand how emerging technologies might be leveraged for social impact.

They work for Teach For America as a UX Designer by day, and volunteer as the Director of Communications & Special Projects for the Design Futures Initiative by night. They also co-designed the FxD workshop with Jack Wilkinson, and act as an instructor for the course.

Jack is a Senior Strategist at Jam3, a global experience design agency where he leads research, strategy, and the design of innovative experiences and new offerings for global brands including EA, Adidas, Facebook, PepsiCo, VISA, and Diageo. During his time, the company doubled in size and recently won 2020 Digital Innovation Agency of the Year.

Jack also sits on the board of the Design Futures Initiative, where he spreads futures-oriented creative practices through the annual conference, PRIMER, and their international network of meet-ups, Speculative Futures. Most recently he has co-designed a curriculum to teach Futures x Design with Doc Martens, in partnership with the Kedge Futures School.