This document discusses the future of technology and its impact on jobs and society. It explores scenarios around issues like self-driving cars, the sharing economy, and advancing technologies. The document emphasizes that we must thoughtfully navigate technological change to improve lives and cities. It also stresses the need to bring together disciplines like science, design, engineering and art to collectively imagine positive futures and guide current choices and policy.

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Catherine Van Holder @cvanholder - catherine@pantopicon.be

2. 1. technology driven
2. technology & job
security driven
3. human centred,
solving problems
through use of
technology
engineer/noun

3. W E A R E A F O R E S I G H T & D E S I G N S T U D I O
W E S E E F U T U R E S A S T O O LS
T O R E F R A M E C H A L L E N G E S
A N D E N R I C H T H E I M A G I N AT I O N S PA C E
W E M A K E I N O R D E R T O S PA R K D E B AT E
A N D C ATA LY S E C H A N G E
W E A R E PA N T O P I C O N
“

4. “de opleiding is historisch
ontsproten uit die van de technische
ingenieurs die gecreëerd werd
vanwege gestelde noden bij de
industriële revolutie”
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5. We leven niet in een
tijdperk van
verandering, maar
een verandering van
tijdperk
Jan Rotmans
//

6. hier komt video weforum!

7. THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION

8. We are suffering from the crash of our old
institutions, we are also pioneering a new
civilization. That means living with high
uncertainty. It means expecting disequilibria
and upset. And it means no one has the full
and final truth about where we are going -
or even where we should go.
//
Alvin Tofler

10. WHAT IF
tomorrow looks like A, B, C, D, … ?

11. megatrends
wildcards
(weak) signals of change
WHAT IF?
DESTEP
demographics
economics
socio-cultural
technology
political
environmental

12. Limits to Growth

13. SCENARIO
BUSINESS AS USUAL

14. Project title Client
//
Self Driving Cars Will Improve Our
Cities, If They Don’t Ruin Them

15. a tale of multiple futures
The sharing economy, as a feature of urban life, could evolve in
promising or not-so-promising ways.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. …”
April Rinne

16. We mustn’t be caught by surprise by our own
advancing technologies. This has happend again
and again in history. and suddenly people have
found themselves in a situation which they didn’t
foresee and doing all sorts of things that they
didn’t really want to do.
//
Aldous Huxley

18. STEAM

19. Launched in early 2016, the Journal of Design and
Science (JoDS) captures the antidisciplinary ethos
of the MIT Media Lab. Like the Lab, it opens new
connections between science and design,
encouraging discourse that breaks down the
barriers between traditional academic
disciplines.
JoDS intends to incite much-needed change in
academic publishing by challenging traditional
academic silos as well as the established
publishing practices associated with them.

21. “valuable concept”
ecological
economical
social
how to design for sustainable futures
social welfare : freelance economy. ageing society. global mobility
earth centricity : circularity. biomimicry. …
wellbeing : autonomy + connection. safety + exploration
< the holy matrimony of sustainability >

22. Project title Client

23. WEforum Dov Seidman

24. Project title Client
exploring the world ahead
through anticipatory
anthropology

27. //

28. … we are moving into a
landscape where art and
science, design and
engineering are inseparable.
At their intersection lies the
new creative laboratory for
the future of our narrative
practices.
“
Alex McDowell

29. history tells us that a value
shift is triggered by creation
of a new story about how
we want to live

31. “every choice we’ll make
today affect how our future
will look like.
every image we have of our
future determines our
choices now and in the
future

32. thanks.
let’s meet in the future.
// THE END
Catherine Van Holder @cvanholder - catherine@pantopicon.be