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Speaking & Podcasts
Topics
- New Kind of DesignA philosophical framework for designing in a complex, computationally irreducible world, where considering anything less than everything means missing something.
- Speculative Design NormalizationHow to bring speculative and critical design methods into mainstream corporate practice as tools for research, strategy, and meaningful innovation.
- Service DesignDesigning services that are useful, usable, and desirable, shaping experiences across every touchpoint with empathy and systems thinking.
- Design ThinkingDesign thinking isn't dead. Applying human-centered design methods to complex problems and organizational innovation.
- Designing for HappinessUsing design to optimize wellbeing at personal, organizational, and civic scales, exploring what it would mean to design everything for happiness rather than growth.
- Design EducationDesign education is failing. Rethinking how design is taught in an era of complexity, emerging technology, and rapid change, and what the next generation of designers needs to know.
- Design & Emerging TechnologyUnderstanding the long-range implications of AI, synthetic biology, and other exponential technologies through the lens of speculative and critical design.
- Climate & DesignHow design can engage honestly with the climate crisis, from material alternatives to declarations of context, and designing toward preferable futures.
- Innovation StrategyUsing design methods to develop future-oriented strategies that go beyond the probable toward the possible and preferable.
- Healthcare DesignApplying service and speculative design to improve the healthcare experience, drawing on a decade of professional practice and work at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation.
- Design-Led StartupsBuilding ventures with design at the center, drawing on the experience of founding and running design-driven companies from idea to market.
- Startup as CritiqueUsing the startup as a form of design speculation, building companies not just for growth, but as a way of asking new questions about culture, technology, and what we value.
Organizations
Where I spend my time
Neeley Worldwide
Design consultancy specialising in Speculative Design, Service Design, and Strategy. Works with organizations to understand the future impact of emerging technologies and find opportunities for meaningful impact.
School of Critical Design
Co-founded with Gemma Jones, the School of Critical Design teaches emerging methods to address critical issues facing humanity, including Speculative Design, New Kind of Design, and Design Meditation.
Masamichi Souzou
A design practice focused on the optimization of happiness through the consideration of everything. Objects, experiences, and ideas that live at the intersection of beauty, meaning, and wellbeing.
