...of Individuals and Institutions
Ben Swift
22 Jul '22
we acknowledge and celebrate Australia's First Peoples on whose traditional lands we meet, and pay our respect to the elders past and present
my journey
maths UG → computing PhD → computing academic
I’m now the Educational Experiences lead at the School of Cybernetics
me, via midjourney
Individuals and Institutions – to be Empowered or Conformed? promo image, oil on canvas, hyperrealistic
*slide missing*
see the TED talk
the ways we think about the future affect the systems we build in the present (both individual and institutional) and vice versa
futures is a set of practices and frameworks to help us think differently about the future
a participatory keynote
| 1:30pm | intro |
| 1:45pm | activity: speed futures |
| 2:10pm | activity: possible? preferable? |
| 2:20pm | discussion: where to conform? where to be empowered? |
in pairs, come up with a (post-it note sized) description of a thing from the future according to a prompt:
in a ____ future, there is a ____ related to ____… what is it?
Travel Bits are a snack that has a chemical ingredient that triggers certain sensual events and effects. In this example the Italy flavour gives you the smells, tastes and sounds of sitting on the grand canal.
it’s the thing from the future time
in pairs, write a post-it sized description of a thing from the future according to the prompt (one per pair)
you’ll have 5 mins, then you leave the completed post-it at your station
in your final pair, grab all the post-its left at your station
discuss how possible and preferable each thing is
stick all the post-its on the main whiteboard
let’s see what y’all came up with
the ways we think about the future affect the systems we build in the present (both individual and institutional) and vice versa
futures is a set of practices and frameworks to help us think differently about the future