Dear Future, I'm Ready!

Listen to our latest episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with J Bob Alotta, Media activist, filmmaker, movement strategist and current Vice President, Global Programs at Mozilla.

J Bob sat down with Marco at the Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam on October 12-13 where she was one of the keynote speakers. She talked with Marco about building movements for transformation, Mozilla as a driver of change, activism in times of uncertainty and of course, fueled with the topics of AI, big tech and the digital society.

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J. Bob Alotta is a veteran movement builder and nonprofit executive working at the intersection of technology and communities. Now serving as Vice President, Global Programs at Mozilla, Bob leads several ambitious initiatives to make the internet and artificial intelligence more trustworthy and equitable. These include the Mozilla Festival (MozFest), which convenes tens of thousands of technologists, artists, and activists each year. The Data Futures Lab, which reimagines new, better ways for data to be governed. The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which is training a new generation of ethics-minded technologists. And more.

Listen to our inspiring new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Roland van der Vorst, head of innovation of the international Dutch bank Rabobank and former professor of TU Delft and founder and director of Freedomlab.

Roland sat down with Marco at the Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam on October 12-13. He talked with Marco about transitions, looking at things differently, the role and responsibilities of corporates and academia in these transformational times, and of course what it means to be a creative voice and designerly thinker in a corporate environment.

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Roland's professional life is dominated by two activities: trying to understand things and to put things in motion. The first has lead to various books, columns and lectures. The second has put on the path of entrepreneurship. I have always worked at the crossroads of strategic thinking and creative thinking. The last 16 years I did so by advising clients in various industries on brand development. I have managed professional organizations and put my strategies into practice by being an entrepreneur in both Europe and Singapore.

Listen to our new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Matthew Wizinsky, a designer, researcher and educator. He is author of the amazing new book 'Design After Capitalism'.

Matthew talks with Marco and Carola about transition design, the role and responsibilities of academics and educators in design, new visions on the design profession and about capitalism from a designer’s perspective. Matthews's perspective.

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Matthew Wizinsky is a designer, researcher, educator, and author on contemporary issues in design practice and research. He has over 20 years of professional experience in communication, interaction, exhibition, and experiential design, and he consults organizations on future possibilities through strategic foresight. He is an Associate Professor in the Ullman School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, PhD researcher in Transition Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Associate Editor for the communication design journal Visible Language, and the author of Design after Capitalism (MIT Press, 2022).

Listen to our fascinating new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Ruurd Priester, 

Ruurd talks with Marco and Carola about the stack of crises, doughnut economics and how he thinks we should transform (the) design (field) for good.

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Ruurd is a systems thinker/doer, a social entrepreneur and researcher, with many years in digital design, marketing, innovation and strategy. He is Co-Founder and strategist of Groundforce Studio, which developed the Doughnut Economics Action Lab website and platform. Ruurd is Co-Founder and Acting Chair of the Amsterdam Donut Coalitie, Co-Founder and strategist of Climate Cleanup, and a former Research Fellow at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science – where he is also leading the sustainability program re-set. Ruurd's favorite motto is from Charles Eames: 'eventually everything connects'.

Listen to our dazzling new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Celiane Camargo-Borges, pioneer in imagineering, researcher and founder of designing conversations where she advocates the power of dialogue. 

Celiane talks with Marco and Carola about the potential of dialogue, collective creativity, Imagineering Design and social change.

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Celiane Camargo-Borges is faculty at Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and visiting professor and guest lecturer at several universities around the world such as University of São Paulo in Brazil, University of Padova in Italy, University College Aspira in Croatia, among others.  She is also the founder of Designing Conversations (www.designingconversations.us), where she consults, designs and delivers workshops and process design within a diversity of areas where creativity, imagination, innovation and dialogue are central. In addition, she is a member of the Taos Institute Board, serving as a PhD supervisor and facilitator of workshops and online courses.

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Listen to our sparkling new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Aga Szóstek, strategic designer, author of The Umami Strategy and co-host of the podcast The Next Wave.

Aga talks with Marco and Carola about transformation, going beyond human centeredness and the umami strategy.

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Aga Szóstek, Ph.D. is a strategic designer. For the past two decades she worked at the forefront of combining design, technology and business. She collaborated with brands such as Google, Microsoft, Philips, Canon, Samsung, EY, Santander, ING, Orange and many more, bringing the experience-focused strategic approach to project teams and boardrooms. Her approach inspired many organisations to refocus and bet on experiences as their strategic differentiator.

Next to consulting, Szóstek designs tools aiming to support delivering unique experiences and co-hosts a podcast about creative leadership: Catching The Next Wave. She graduated with her Ph.D. from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, and teaches experience design all around the world from the alternative business school Kaospilot in Denmark to Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Listen carefully en leave with fresh inspiration from our new episode of the #21for21 podcast again 🚀  🌏  with Kees Klomp, professor, author and the voice of a different sound in economics.

Kees talks with Marco and Carola about existential economics, personal transformation and being vulnerable in order to thrive.

Kees Klomp is professor of Purpose Economy at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences where he researches and develops an existential approach to economics. He is co-founder of Thrive institute, an organization that aims to re-invent economics and society. Kees is a recognized voice in topics of transformation and new ways of thinking and solving for the complex times we live in.

In his latest book ‘Thrive. Fundamentals for a New Economy’, Kees and co-author Shinta Oosterwaal provide insights into alternative approaches to economics that are sustainable and just for both society and the planet in the long term.

Such an inspiring new episode of the #21for21 podcast again 🚀  🌏  with Orlando Wood, award winning Chief Innovation Officer of System1 Group and author of Lemon and Look Out.

Orlando talks with Marco and Carola about about technology, media, brands and the transformation of advertising.

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Orlando Wood is an advertising effectiveness expert and author of Look out (IPA, 2021), Lemon (IPA, 2019), and co-author of System1, Unlocking Profitable Growth (2017). His research on advertising effectiveness draws on psychology, cultural history and the study of the creative arts. Orlando’s work describes the features of advertising that capture attention, elicit an emotional response and so establish lasting business effects; his work also shows how these very same features have been disappearing from advertising in the digital age. Orlando has influenced thinking and practice in research, marketing and advertising, winning him awards from the ARF, AMA, Jay Chiat, ISBA, MRS and ESOMAR. Orlando is a frequent conference speaker and podcast guest.

Orlando is Chief Innovation Officer of System1 Group, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and member of the IPA’s Effectiveness Leadership Group.

An exciting new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Ron Wakkary, professor of design, author and chief of Future Everyday.

Ron talks with Marco and Carola about about human-centricity, posthumanist design and creative speculation.

Ron is a professor in design in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, at Simon Fraser University in Canada and professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centered Worlds in the cluster Future Everyday at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wakkary is the author of the book Things We Could Design for more than Human-Centered Worlds, a critical and creative speculation on posthumanist design.

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