Speakers

Speakers are called upon to critique, challenge, and liberate how we think about the future, moving away from the stock ideas and dominant discourse popularized by today’s saturated media landscape. Together we will share outstanding work, radical practices, and pedagogical approaches to inclusive innovation.

The 2019 program is organized by Design Futures Initiative in collaboration with the School of Design Strategies at The New School.

You can now view all talks on our Vimeo Page. (except Paola Antonelli which we were not permitted to record)

Paola Antonelli

Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design Museum of Modern Art

Manoj Fenelon

Program Director of Strategic Design & Management at Parsons School of Design. Former Director of Pepsico Foresight & Innovation

Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth

Founders of Parsons & Charlesworth, Faculty in Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Matthew Manos

Founder and Managing Director of verynice. Author of Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise

Ytasha L. Womack

Filmmaker, dancer, independent scholar, and author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture  

Tina Fung

Designer at Meld Studios

José de la O

Full Time Professor / Director Studio Monterrey Institute of Technology / Studio José de la O

Joe Tankersley

Futurist / Unique Visions

Sam Holleran with Dodo VÖgler

SH: Writer, Urban & Social Design Lead / Ellery Studio

DV: Co-Founder / Ellery Studio

Markus S. Schulz

Social Scientist, Futures Thinker / Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies / Website

Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde

Artist / Designer / Educator / iyapo repository