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.

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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.

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Workshops

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Program

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
09:45
09:45 - 10:15

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

Britt Wray
10:15
10:15 - 10:45

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

Andrés Colmenares & Lucy Black-Swan
10:45
10:45 - 11:00

Gentrification of the Futures ~ Ethics, Technology & Strategy

Miguel Jiménez
11:00
11:00 - 11:30

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

Aarathi Krishnan
11:30
11:30 - 12:00

Coffee Break

12:00
12:00 - 12:30

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

Nicolás Arroyo
12:30
12:30 - 13:00

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

Isabel de Salas
13:00
13:00 - 13:40

Panel discussion
13:40
13:40 - 14:30

Lunch time

14:30
14:30 - 15:00

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

Peter Bishop
15:00
15:00 - 15:30

The Food, the Wholefoods, and nothing but the Food

Cecilia Tham
15:30
15:30 - 16:00

Post Workers Theatre ~ Tomorrows Great Pageant

Dash Macdonald
16:00
16:00 - 16:30

Transportation Landscape of a Future World

Archie Mani Srinivasan
16:30
16:30 - 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00
17:00 - 17:30

Design when everybody (could) design

Dominika Świerad & Lorenzo Lattanzi
17:30
17:30 - 18:00

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

Jorge Camacho
18:00
18:00 - 18:40

Not the usual news

Jimmy Loizeau
18:40
18:40 - 19:10

Futurecraft: Making the Future a Common Good

Ricardo Borges
19:10
19:10 - 19:30

Institutional closing

19:30
19:30 - 20:30

Cocktail

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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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.

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