Futures For All

PRIMER is the conference dedicated to bringing together the leading minds in futures design thinking and doing, in Madrid, October 17–18th 2019.

Speakers

Our conference brings together the leading minds on the field for an inspiring and provocative mix of points of views about our futures — and how are they being made.

Jorge Camacho Co-founder Diagonal; Institute for the Future @j_camachor
Nicolas Arroyo Founding Partner and Foresight Director Bespoke Copenhagen @nicnaar
Isabel de Salas Strategy Director at Picnic Global Foresight Advisory Council
Cecilia Tham Social Technologist Telefónica Alpha @CeciliaMTham
Peter Bishop Founder and Executive Director Teach The Future @RealFuturist
Dash Macdonald Lecturer Goldsmiths University @postworkerstheatre
Lucy Black-Swan & Andres Colmenares Co-founders IAM-Internet @IAM_internet
Jimmy Loizeau Lecturer Goldsmiths Design @jimmyl0izeau
Britt Wray Science & Stories @TEDTalks Resident @brittwray
Aarathi krishnan Humanitarian Futures International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent @akrishnan23
Archie Mani Srinivasan Researcher GE Transportation a Wabtec Company @archielicious4u
Miguel Jiménez CEO & Lead Futurist FFWD – Strategic Foresight & Future Anticipation FFWD
Dominika Swierad and Lorenzo Lattanzi Co-Founder Still Not Quite stillnotquite
Ricardo Borges de Castro Adviser on Strategic Foresight European Political Strategy Centre @ricbdc

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Workshops

Jorge Camacho co-founder Diagonal Research Affiliate at Institute for the Future @j_camachor
Miguel Sabel and Naty Gomes Strategic Design Director and Service Designe Designit Designit
Gemma Jones, Malex Salamanques
and J Paul Neeley Co-founders The School of Critical Design The School of Critical Design

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Program

DAY 1 — Talks DAY 2 — Workshops

The first day of PRIMER consists of inspirational and thought-provoking talks about futures, ethics and speculative design.

Keynote/Panel, 40 min

Talk, 30 min

Talk, 15 min

09:00

09:00 - 09:30

Registration opens

09:30

09:30 - 09:45

Opening remarks

Pending

Opening keynote: How climate change messes with our minds --- and what design can do about it

The Everything Manifesto: A Thought-Experiment For The Next Billion Seconds

Andrés Colmenares & Lucy Black-Swan

Gentrification of the Futures ~ Ethics, Technology & Strategy

Miguel Jiménez

Humanitarian Futures: Perpetuating the Status Quo or Actually Reimagining a New World?

Aarathi Krishnan

11:30

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee Break

Democratising Futures: Incorporating Futuring as a core practise for the new generation of organisations

Nicolás Arroyo

Anticipatory Innovation: the key to add value into the future.

Isabel de Salas

Panel discussion

13:40

13:40 - 14:30

Lunch time

Preparing Students for the Future by Actually Teaching them about the Future

The Food, the Wholefoods, and nothing but the Food

Post Workers Theatre ~ Tomorrows Great Pageant

Transportation Landscape of a Future World

Archie Mani Srinivasan

16:30

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee Break

Design when everybody (could) design

Dominika Świerad & Lorenzo Lattanzi

Acá nos tocará vivir: Insights from an ethnographic futures project in Mexico City

Not the usual news

Futurecraft: Making the Future a Common Good

19:10

19:10 - 19:30

Institutional closing

19:30

19:30 - 20:30

Cocktail

In addition, we have several tracks of workshops, hosted by our international guests and priced separately. Workshop will be held at Casa del Lector, inside "Matadero"

09:30

Workshop hosted by Jorge Camacho

Design for New Beginnings: An introduction to design futures

Jorge Camacho, co-founder Diagonal and Research Affiliate at Institute for the Future

Workshop hosted by Designit

Building the rabbit hole: exploring the future in your organization

Miguel Sabel and Naty Gomes, Designit

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch time 13:30 - 15:00

15:00

Workshop hosted by Jorge Camacho

Design for New Beginnings: An introduction to design futures

Jorge Camacho, co-founder Diagonal and Research Affiliate at Institute for the Future

Workshop hosted by The School of Critical Design

Speculative Design for Forced Migration Contexts

J Paul Neeley, Gemma Jones and Malex Salamanques, The School of Critical Design

We reserve the right to make changes in content and schedules

Venue

Conference will be held in Casa del Lector a cultural and art space inside “Matadero”, at the riverside of Madrid.

It is close and very well connected with the city centre by public transport.

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Casa del Lector

Team

The conference is organized in partnership with Mindset, and the core team behind Speculative Futures Madrid, a chapter from the US nonprofit organization, the Design Futures Initiative (DFI) founded in 2015.

Andrea Cegarra Event Coordinator Send email Profile
Rubén Jiménez Operations / Logistics Send email Profile
Lourdes Rodríguez Content Manager Send email Profile
Millaray Vega UX / UI Send email Profile

Monica Quintana Event Coordinator Send email Profile
David Alayón Alliances and Partnerships Send email Profile
Sandra Lázaro Branding & Design Send email Profile
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