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Lecture - Unfinished Business, Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 from 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Lecture - Unfinished Business,  Design Fiction:  Provoking...

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Design Fiction Lecture - General Admission (September 29) Ended CA$15.00 CA$1.36
Design Fiction Lecture - Student Admission (September 29) Ended CA$7.00 CA$1.17
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Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business Events are monthly lectures and workshops organized by Torch Innovation. The lectures share perspectives on creativity, design and innovation and the accompanying workshops provide attendees with practical skills that they can use in their teams and organizations.  Unfinished Business Events are designed by Torch Innovation and Normative Design and sponsored by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD.


Unfinished Business Lecture - Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It (September 29, 2010 from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)

Could we have had the iPhone without Star Trek? Can we create the next innovation without thinking about other possible worlds? What are we making out of our imaginations that will shape what’s next? As an emerging area of thought and practice, Design Fiction provides us with a way of “thinking about doing what we see and imagine”. By making models or prototypes of the future, we expose, test and probe further into it, exploring scenarios as use cases, as they are assumptions about the future made reality. Scott Smith of Changeist will take us on a journey to see where Design Fiction has come from, its impact on a generation unwittingly raised on it, and how designers, creatives, strategists, and other future-minded professions among us are applying it to actively provoke possible futures that we prefer.

Want to learn more about Desing Fiction, attend our day long workshop called, Practical Design Fiction:  Creating Artifacts for Understanding the Future. Click here to find out more.

About the Speaker:

Scott is the founder, principal and vision behind Changeist, a foresight, strategy and innovation lab created to find opportunities and develop new market spaces where technology and emerging behaviors intersect. He has over 15 years of experience as a futurist and strategist at global research firms, developing new tools for capturing and mapping insights. Prior to founding Changeist, he was a futurist with a Washington-based consulting firm, helping brands such as Nokia, Honda, Herman Miller, P&G, and McDonald’s anticipate change and build roadmaps to better futures. Scott has spoken at events such as LIFT08 and LIFT07 in Geneva, and 2007's SxSW.

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OCADU
100 McCaul Street
CENTRAL HALL
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 from 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)


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At Torch Innovation we think differently about how and what people learn.  We offer a series of lectures, workshop, and community events that focus and provide a different perspective on creativity, design, and innovation and provide attendees with practical skill that they can use in their teams and organizations.

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Please note that the location has changed to:

OCAD Building
100 McCaul Street
AUDITORIUM, Main floor
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada