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Home › News & Events › Events › Design Futures Lecture Series Design Futures Lecture Series Wednesday, November 9, 2011 The Extreme Craft Roadshow Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Garth Johnson BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, a blog which vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude, presents a fast-paced hour of the website’s “greatest hits”, proving that the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred. Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Beyond Design Thinking Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Regina Connell, Handful of Salt BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm "Design is sexy; craft is frumpy." It's time to kill that particular trope, and it's time to bring them together, says Regina Connell, the founder and editor-in-chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine devoted to the craft of modern design. Thursday, September 22, 2011 Co-Imagining Futures Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Uday Dandavate 135 Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future? Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture. Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Design Futures: Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Parul Vora, Wikimedia Foundation BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Design Futures Lecture: Chris Hecker Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Chris Hecker, definition six 202 South Hall, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Chris Hecker is a game developer and an outspoken advocate for pushing the current boundaries of design and interactivity. Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Design Futures Lecture: How to Build a World Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Stuart Candy, Arup and The Sceptical Futuryst BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm This talk is a dispatch from the frontier of world building — future creation and communication — from one of its pioneers. Stuart Candy (a.k.a. the sceptical futuryst) is a designer, consultant, writer, educator, and activist, and the senior foresight and innovation specialist at Arup. Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Making Technology Meaningful: Bridging Research & Practice Design Futures Lecture Speakers: Jaspal Sandhu and Mahad Ibrahim, Gobee Consulting BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dr. Mahad Ibrahim is a 2009 graduate of the School of Information's Ph.D. program. Ibrahim and Dr. Jaspal Sandhu are partners in the Gobee Group, a small, agile consultancy working to develop impact-oriented technology solutions through holistic design approaches. This talk will highlight the Gobee model of linking research and practice through presentation of current social impact engagements. Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Locating Ourselves: Delving into place-based storytelling Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Leslie Rule, KQED 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Leslie Rule, KQED Design Futures Lecture Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Play for All – All Children, All Abilities Design Futures Lecture Speaker: Jessica Zarin Kessin (Development by Design Toys) BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Reading Ahead: Considering The Book’s Future in the iPod Era Design Futures Lecture Speakers: Steve Portigal and Dan Soltzberg (Portigal Consulting) BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 1 2 3 next › last »	Print Email Share Subscribe to Email Announcements Get announcements of upcoming events, news from the I School, and other items of interest to the I School community, such as seminars, lectures, and other events at the I School, on campus, and elsewhere. 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