The document provides a summary of the inaugural Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) held in 2014. It describes the DIF as a 4-week online and in-person event focused on design, technology and entrepreneurship in the context of a changing economy. Over the course of the festival, there were over 225 hours of programmed content from around the world on topics related to the circular economy. The DIF featured headliner speakers, university-led content, and open participation formats. Feedback highlighted the engaging discussion, global reach, and inspiration provided by the diverse range of speakers and real-life examples of circular innovation presented at the DIF. Plans were announced to expand the DIF in 2015 based on the success and positive
Manifesto: Anil Gupta - Honey Bee NetworkSTEPS Centre
The STEPS Centre Symposium, 26 September 2009, focused on our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project. This presentation by Anil Gupta of the Honey Bee Network and Indian Institute of Management, was one of those given at the event. For more information see: www.anewmanifesto.org
Against educational technology in the neoliberal UniversityRichard Hall
Slides for my presentation at the CAMRI Research Seminar on 25 March 2015 [see: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/richard-hall-against-educational-technology-in-the-neoliberal-university]
Collaborative Economy: A possible bridge from the old to the new economy? Thomas Doennebrink
Presentation @ inauguration of the 1. Seats2Meet location in Berlin on the 17.07.2014.
Attempt to describe and contrast characteristics and features of an old and a new economy (society/paradigm) and discuss the question whether the Share/Collaborative Economy could be a possible bridge and means of transformation from the former to the later (slides 14 - 24).
Preceded by slides dealing with the components, aspects and implication of the collaborative economy and concluding with slides explaining OuiShare.
Other speakers:
Felix Weth (CEO fairnopoly) about cooperative 2.0 &
Ronald van den Hoff (CEO Seats2Meet) about Society 3.0
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Manifesto: Anil Gupta - Honey Bee NetworkSTEPS Centre
The STEPS Centre Symposium, 26 September 2009, focused on our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project. This presentation by Anil Gupta of the Honey Bee Network and Indian Institute of Management, was one of those given at the event. For more information see: www.anewmanifesto.org
Against educational technology in the neoliberal UniversityRichard Hall
Slides for my presentation at the CAMRI Research Seminar on 25 March 2015 [see: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/richard-hall-against-educational-technology-in-the-neoliberal-university]
Collaborative Economy: A possible bridge from the old to the new economy? Thomas Doennebrink
Presentation @ inauguration of the 1. Seats2Meet location in Berlin on the 17.07.2014.
Attempt to describe and contrast characteristics and features of an old and a new economy (society/paradigm) and discuss the question whether the Share/Collaborative Economy could be a possible bridge and means of transformation from the former to the later (slides 14 - 24).
Preceded by slides dealing with the components, aspects and implication of the collaborative economy and concluding with slides explaining OuiShare.
Other speakers:
Felix Weth (CEO fairnopoly) about cooperative 2.0 &
Ronald van den Hoff (CEO Seats2Meet) about Society 3.0
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Coming up to ten years on from the 2007 Technology Futures programme we conducted for Shell, several people have been asking how well the expert perspectives have played out. This is the summary of two sets of weeklong discussions that took place in Bangalore and London, each of which included around 20 experts from across multiple disciplines all looking out 20 years at how technology may, or may not influence society. This was the second run of the Technology Futures programme after the initial project in 2004 where similar discussions had taken place in Amsterdam and Houston.
At a time when oil accounted for over a third of the world’s energy supply and renewables for less than a tenth of that amount, core areas of future focus were on the potential rise of biofuels, nuclear, solar, wind and wave as well as the challenges in enabling a more electric world. Specific issues raised included the opportunities from second and third generation biofuels and the role of synthetic organisms in the mix; pebble bed nuclear reactors and the potential for fusion; concentrated solar power, the increasing efficiency of photovoltaics and associated cost reductions; energy storage, battery power and superconductivity; hydrogen and microbial fuel cells; the impact of maglev trains, autonomous vehicles as well as data mining and quantum computing. Nearly ten years on the summaries of each of these, the likely development paths and the associated constraints and enabling factors are a recommended read.
Personally, however, it is the later chapters that are most insightful, especially in the context of today’s challenges. Whereas many of the energy related technology shifts have played out, largely in line with some of the expert expectations, it is some of cross-cutting views from 2007 that still seem to be at the fore of our to-do list: How to better collaborate globally and locally, especially across multi-sector partnerships; how to manage distributed activities better than centralised ones; how to better share value from intellectual property; and how best to harness artificial intelligence are all questions as relevant today as they were when we first held the discussions.
While we spend more of our time continuing to look forward, seeking new opportunities and challenges to address, if you have a spare hour or so, I would recommend a flick through the summary report which is available for download here.
Shell Technology Futures 2004 - This is the summary of two sets of weeklong discussions that took place in Amsterdam and Houston, each of which included around 20 experts from across multiple disciplines all looking out 20 years at how technology may, or may not influence society. This was the first run of the Technology Futures programme and was followed in 2007 by similar discussions in Bangalore and London.
This first 2004 programme took a very wide view and covered everything from mesh networks, natural language processing and nano-technology to adaptive systems, automated sensing, tissue scaffolding and 3D printing.
This is a talk on 20 Jul 2016 for teachers on maker culture and the concept of "meaningful making" to make it more meaningful for students to engage in maker projects and education.
Restart+ Module 3 Placemaking a Powerful Tool for Community Regenerationcaniceconsulting
In this module, we explore placemaking as a process for community regeneration.
We focus in detail on the four main types of placemaking and hone in on how each one works. We look at some great real life applications of these in communities.
In the final section, we provide you with a pack of useful exercises and templates to help you start using placemaking in the planning of your new regeneration project/s!
The future of health the emerging view 14 01 16Tim Jones
A short talk given in London in January 2016 highlighting some of the key health and healthcare related insights from the Future Agenda workshops. Mixing views from around the world it looks at public health issues, the increasing role of digital, changes to the healthcare system, the ageing challenge, financing health and where global answers may emerge from.
Community Planning: Principles, Methods & Strategies relevant for Sustainable...Nick Wates
How to create a community engagement strategy for sustainable mobility projects. Presentation for Civitas conference on Stakeholder Consultation and Citizen Engagement, Gent, Belgium, 18 & 19 November 2009.
Why do certain cities and communities create more entrepreneurs than others? What makes some companies more successful than others? Are there common ingredients that make for better entrepreneurship and success within both cities and companies? Haskayne School of Business researchers delve into their research to answer these and other related questions. Jim Dewald, dean, and Seok-Woo Kwon, associate professor, share their findings on what puts some cities and companies on the path to success and greatness while others languish or fail.
My presentation today at the KESSA Multimedia University of Kenya joint international interdisciplinary conference on how innovation can be used to build resilience of African countries.
#InnovationForResilience
Coming up to ten years on from the 2007 Technology Futures programme we conducted for Shell, several people have been asking how well the expert perspectives have played out. This is the summary of two sets of weeklong discussions that took place in Bangalore and London, each of which included around 20 experts from across multiple disciplines all looking out 20 years at how technology may, or may not influence society. This was the second run of the Technology Futures programme after the initial project in 2004 where similar discussions had taken place in Amsterdam and Houston.
At a time when oil accounted for over a third of the world’s energy supply and renewables for less than a tenth of that amount, core areas of future focus were on the potential rise of biofuels, nuclear, solar, wind and wave as well as the challenges in enabling a more electric world. Specific issues raised included the opportunities from second and third generation biofuels and the role of synthetic organisms in the mix; pebble bed nuclear reactors and the potential for fusion; concentrated solar power, the increasing efficiency of photovoltaics and associated cost reductions; energy storage, battery power and superconductivity; hydrogen and microbial fuel cells; the impact of maglev trains, autonomous vehicles as well as data mining and quantum computing. Nearly ten years on the summaries of each of these, the likely development paths and the associated constraints and enabling factors are a recommended read.
Personally, however, it is the later chapters that are most insightful, especially in the context of today’s challenges. Whereas many of the energy related technology shifts have played out, largely in line with some of the expert expectations, it is some of cross-cutting views from 2007 that still seem to be at the fore of our to-do list: How to better collaborate globally and locally, especially across multi-sector partnerships; how to manage distributed activities better than centralised ones; how to better share value from intellectual property; and how best to harness artificial intelligence are all questions as relevant today as they were when we first held the discussions.
While we spend more of our time continuing to look forward, seeking new opportunities and challenges to address, if you have a spare hour or so, I would recommend a flick through the summary report which is available for download here.
Shell Technology Futures 2004 - This is the summary of two sets of weeklong discussions that took place in Amsterdam and Houston, each of which included around 20 experts from across multiple disciplines all looking out 20 years at how technology may, or may not influence society. This was the first run of the Technology Futures programme and was followed in 2007 by similar discussions in Bangalore and London.
This first 2004 programme took a very wide view and covered everything from mesh networks, natural language processing and nano-technology to adaptive systems, automated sensing, tissue scaffolding and 3D printing.
This is a talk on 20 Jul 2016 for teachers on maker culture and the concept of "meaningful making" to make it more meaningful for students to engage in maker projects and education.
Restart+ Module 3 Placemaking a Powerful Tool for Community Regenerationcaniceconsulting
In this module, we explore placemaking as a process for community regeneration.
We focus in detail on the four main types of placemaking and hone in on how each one works. We look at some great real life applications of these in communities.
In the final section, we provide you with a pack of useful exercises and templates to help you start using placemaking in the planning of your new regeneration project/s!
The future of health the emerging view 14 01 16Tim Jones
A short talk given in London in January 2016 highlighting some of the key health and healthcare related insights from the Future Agenda workshops. Mixing views from around the world it looks at public health issues, the increasing role of digital, changes to the healthcare system, the ageing challenge, financing health and where global answers may emerge from.
Community Planning: Principles, Methods & Strategies relevant for Sustainable...Nick Wates
How to create a community engagement strategy for sustainable mobility projects. Presentation for Civitas conference on Stakeholder Consultation and Citizen Engagement, Gent, Belgium, 18 & 19 November 2009.
Why do certain cities and communities create more entrepreneurs than others? What makes some companies more successful than others? Are there common ingredients that make for better entrepreneurship and success within both cities and companies? Haskayne School of Business researchers delve into their research to answer these and other related questions. Jim Dewald, dean, and Seok-Woo Kwon, associate professor, share their findings on what puts some cities and companies on the path to success and greatness while others languish or fail.
My presentation today at the KESSA Multimedia University of Kenya joint international interdisciplinary conference on how innovation can be used to build resilience of African countries.
#InnovationForResilience
Steven Parkinson & Jim Smith explore the pedagogical approaches to A-Level Design and Technology. The exam board specifications are just a starting point, its important we offer much more in a technologically evolving world.
Presented at the annual D&T Association Summer School Conference in 2015, hosted at Loughborough Design School. The presentation breaks A-Level D&T into "Do-Nows", "Ethos", "Teardowns", "Thunks" and "Iterative Design".
This is not my work. It is by David W. Lewis from the Annual RLG Partnership Meeting in Chicago, IL, on June 10, 2010. With his permission, I am synchronizing the audio provided by OCLC with the slides. (Note: the source audio was distorted.)
Children as Global Fabricators - FabLab thinking and tinkering in experimenti...Rikke Toft Noergaard
Slides from the workshop at the FabLearn.eu conference on Children as Global Fabricators - FabLab thinking and tinkering in experimenting networks around the world
This presentation offers a quick summary of TRANSIT, an EU-funded research project that seeks to elaborate a theory of transformative social innovation through case studies across Europe and Latin America.
Open State is a series of events starting in Summer 2013. We will explore, develop and support innovative projects that work on the sustainable future we urgently need. And everything will be open-source. Our goal: prototyping the smallest cell of a sustainable society and creating blueprints for everyone to adopt. www.openstate.cc
Origin of Spaces - Research Source Book (print) - innovative practices for s...Christiaan Weiler
Antonio Machado - Campos de Castilla - 1912
"... Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. ...”
1. Preface
It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
If this project can establish the relevance of the multidisciplinary approach to global sustainability, it will be succesful. All participants, and all of their partners, will be dealing with our subject hands on. This means, once again, to break out of conventional silos so that professionals with different expertise can share insights and work side by side for the common goal.
Once the individual participants of the project recognise the shared motivation, the matter can be improved, embodied and disseminated - through the work in progress and the distribution of the results. Everyone will have the occasion to relay the subject in new links with organisations and city councils on local level, bringing together the actors within a common framework. The nature of 'change management' will need the implication of key-stake-holders on a regional level. Developping and distributing tested contents will convince captains of governance and industry to support the agents of the new models. The rich and diverse context of european culture will be a favourable background for innovating community-management with the resilience of a hybrid multi-faceted approach. When we come out with a 'best-practice'-based toolbox, developed on field work, we will be ready to share the expertise, and promote this complementary and crucial frame of innovation.
2. Research Outcomes
This research report is part of the Erasmus + project. It is the result of the initial phase, and concentrates on the task of assessing the existing practices of the five partners. The results of the research is be the basis of the second and final phase - the Toolbox development. The Toolbox is destined to enable other individuals or groups to learn the basics of setting up multidisciplinary social entrepreneur clusters.
Origin of Spaces - Research Source Book (screen) innovative practices for sus...Christiaan Weiler
Antonio Machado - Campos de Castilla - 1912
"... Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. ...”
1. Preface
It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
If this project can establish the relevance of the multidisciplinary approach to global sustainability, it will be succesful. All participants, and all of their partners, will be dealing with our subject hands on. This means, once again, to break out of conventional silos so that professionals with different expertise can share insights and work side by side for the common goal.
Once the individual participants of the project recognise the shared motivation, the matter can be improved, embodied and disseminated - through the work in progress and the distribution of the results. Everyone will have the occasion to relay the subject in new links with organisations and city councils on local level, bringing together the actors within a common framework. The nature of 'change management' will need the implication of key-stake-holders on a regional level. Developping and distributing tested contents will convince captains of governance and industry to support the agents of the new models. The rich and diverse context of european culture will be a favourable background for innovating community-management with the resilience of a hybrid multi-faceted approach. When we come out with a 'best-practice'-based toolbox, developed on field work, we will be ready to share the expertise, and promote this complementary and crucial frame of innovation.
2. Research Outcomes
This research report is part of the Erasmus + project. It is the result of the initial phase, and concentrates on the task of assessing the existing practices of the five partners. The results of the research is be the basis of the second and final phase - the Toolbox development. The Toolbox is destined to enable other individuals or groups to learn the basics of setting up multidisciplinary social entrepreneur clusters.
The way we think about the future has an impact on the shape of the world we live in, and the way we design the products, services, systems and experiences that make up much of our daily quality of life. Are current global challenges presenting us with an opportunity to create positive new visions, or do they represent a threat to the survival of humanity? How can design help to shape a more optimistic view of the future?
Inspiration Tours and Factfinding Missions 2023.pdfNiki Skene
Silicon Valley Inspiration Tours was established in 2012 and has conducted over 160 Inspiration Tours and Factfinding Missions in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Berlin, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Mumbai and Hongkong.
The 5* rated program is the best experience, money can buy to inspire future leaders.
What are the big issues for next decade? The World in 2025 is the full synthesis of insights from the second Future Agenda programme undertaken in 2016. From 120 discussions with thousands of informed people in 45 cities across 35 countries, we gained over 800 insights on the next decade. From these we identified and detailed over 60 key areas of change - those are all shared feely on the future agenda website (www.futureagenda.org).
This document brings all of these insights together in a single pdf for you to use. It is a free book shared under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 licence. We hope that you find it a useful view of how people around the world see change occurring over the next decade.
The World in 2025 - Future Agenda (2016)Future Agenda
What are the big issues for next decade? The World in 2025 is the full synthesis of insights from the second Future Agenda programme undertaken in 2016. From 120 discussions with thousands of informed people in 45 cities across 35 countries, we gained over 800 insights on the next decade. From these we identified and detailed over 60 key areas of change - those are all shared feely on the future agenda website (www.futureagenda.org).
This document brings all of these insights together in a single pdf for you to use. It is a free book shared under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 licence. We hope that you find it a useful view of how people around the world see change occurring over the next decade.
PLEASE NOTE: This book is also available at cost for local digital printing via Amazon and Create Space
https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-2025-Insights-Future-Agenda/dp/0993255426
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Old vs. New Economy. Keynote speech at EUKN EGTC Conference - Civic Economy i...OuiShare
Keynote @Conference on the Civic Economy - Time to get ready Organized by European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam & Pakhuis de Zwijger. Amsterdam 20.10.2014.
2. 2DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
FESTIVAL LABS
Physical meet ups with real-world
design challenges accessible in Fab
Labs globally.
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is conceived as
a four-week long, online and face to face opportunity to
explore a changing economy and how best to respond
to it. It has an emphasis on design, technology and
entrepreneurship. The challenge to participants in Year 1
was “What do I need to know, experience and do?”
Since it is completely open, the DIF is essentially an initiative
in informal education. There are no learning outcomes as such,
and it is not a course. It does, however, act as an umbrella for
many formal university offerings.
The DIF uses a festival analogy, lasts for a defined period
and is layered from the top down. It has headliners, ‘big top’
[University] tents, curated stages, and open mic and impromptu
café to describe its various layers. Organisational control of
content and activity becomes reduced at each step down.
The primary reason for this is to allow participation and scale.
It is user experience orientated and flexible. Its core is the
database driven website which has many of the characteristics
of a sophisticated booking agency — for contributors as well
as participants.
The DIF is about the circular economy and much more. It is
an opportunity for exploring innovation, which may be/or
is disrupting the old economy. Some of this might be easily
linked to the ‘meme’ or core story underlying the circular
economy, but some is less obvious: about systems thinking,
for example, or design, or how we teach and learn. It is certainly
about the way the economy is changing and how a participant
and visitor might be interested and stimulated to look further,
understand more and continue from there. It is set out as a
cornucopia, deliberately overstocked to suggest abundance
and possibility. It contained nearly 250 hours of scheduled
sessions in its first year. It is an event not a library. The DIF
ends 30 days after its last session — in a ‘catch up’ mode.
After that most content is no longer available for public view.
Other characteristics include the way in which the DIF reflects
the progressive agenda of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
It seeks to develop thinking fit for the 21st
century through
experimentation with a new engagement model that is
open access, working creatively to connect with a network
of innovators who have the capability to disrupt the global
economy. It is a global platform embryo, which aspires to
ever greater efficiency (delivery of more with less as scale
increases) and the database becomes refined. The language
question is a particular challenge, which we hope to address
during DIF 2015. The long-term goal of the DIF is that it will
be broadcast in all of the world’s major languages.
The DIF is evolving and will probably never reach a final
configuration since it is feedback rich, proudly collaborative
and participatory, whilst acting as a tremendous focus for
the work of the Foundation and its aims.
Ken Webster, Head of Innovation
ELLEN MACARTHUR
FOUNDATION STAGES
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s
curated content with big picture
themes and trends to watch.
THE CAFÉ
Forum takeovers, facilitated
discussion and live chat.
BIG TOP TENTS
University-led online learning
programmes based on the shift to a
regenerative economy. For example
in 2014 TU Delft hosted a one-day
Circular Product Design event,
which was also streamed online.
HEADLINERS
Must-see thinkers
and thought leaders.
OPEN MIC
Online as well as physical
events with contributions
from people like you all
over the world.
WHAT IS THE DIF?
3. 3DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
The inaugural Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) 2014 proved to
be a diverse and dynamic event featuring speakers and contributors
from around the world. Individuals, businesses, universities and
organisations took part to create a rich and varied line-up offering
the latest insights and analysis on the changing global economy.
A key feature of the DIF is to showcase previously unheard voices on
the subject of disruptive innovation, much of which came through the
festival’s crowdsourced content in the form of Open Mics and Big Top
Tents. Contributors were able to use the DIF platform to host their own
sessions both online and face-to-face, creating new connections and
starting new discourse, while exploring a diverse range of topics in
new and engaging ways.
GLOBAL CONTRIBUTORS
5+ EVENTS
2+ EVENTS
1 EVENT
OPEN MIC SESSIONS
HEADLINERS
FESTIVAL LABS
ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
STAGES
BIG TOP TENTS
4. 4DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
HEADLINER
DAVID WARD
SVP, Chief Architect,
& CTO-Engineering, Cisco
Internet of Everything is one of the most
important IT trends to understand and
integrate into all sectors of the economy.
Tosja Backer
Brad Templeton
The key about biomimicry is whatever your design challenge
is, the odds are high that one or more of the earth’s million
creatures has not only faced this design challenge but has
found out some effective strategies to solve it.
Saskia van den Muijsenberg — The Biomimicry Classroom
The main reason we live in cities is so we can be closer i.e.
shorter travel times. So if we change the meaning of distance
and the meaning of travel then we change the meaning of
cities themselves.
Brad Templeton — Self-Driving Cars and the Future of
the City
We are printing a house element by element.
— Tosja Backer, 3D Print Your Next House
The macroscope is the ability to look at the overview,
to drop the detail... to look for patterns in the relationship
between things.
Ken Webster — Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy
—An Introduction
The circular economy is a really good framework for getting
students to think in a different way about the impacts of their
design decisions.
Clare Brass — SustainRCA: Showcasing Design for
a Circular Economy
QUOTES FROM
THE WEEK
WEEK 1
618 MENTIONS
ON TWITTER
55
SESSIONS
5. 5DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
1,200 MENTIONS
ON TWITTER
WEEK 2
HEADLINERS
EBEN BAYER
CEO & Co-Founder, Ecovative
Ecovative is reaching the
tipping point from exploration,
having a vision and getting
the resources to execute on
that vision... Now we’re at the
stage of proving scalability
and commercial uptake.
WILLIAM MCDONOUGH
Founder, McDonough Innovation
In the end the money matters
a lot and that’s why the circular
economy is so critical because
it’s the economy that drives
the decisions.
JEREMY RIFKIN
Author of The Zero
Marginal Cost Society
Great economic paradigm
shifts occur at a moment in
time when new communication
technologies converge with
new energy sources and new
sources of transportation to
congeal in a general purpose
technology platform.
QUOTES FROM
THE WEEK
Wouldn’t the economy be different if everybody knew how to
repair their things?
Kyle Wiens — Embodied Energy: Maximising
Product Lifespan
The complexity of the world has grown beyond a single
mind’s imagination.
Dirk Helbing — The Participatory Market Society is Born
We have more opportunities to provide additional services
from light, we can even use light bulbs to provide high speed
data communications.
Harald Haas — Let There Be LiFi
Let There Be Lifi
53
SESSIONS
6. 6DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
For the first time in a couple of millennia western civilisation has
started to understand reality through a different lens, so rather
than seeing the world as a hierarchical ordered series of objects,
we’re starting to see reality as being in a state of permanent flux.
Rachel Armstrong — Perspectives on the Future of the City
There’s something about this moment in time when people have
become more conscious of resources and they also have an
energy to renew and improve their cities.
Paul Smyth, Dalston CityFarm — What Does The Future Hold for
Urban Farming?
We’re moving from an old
mode of operation to a
new mode of operation,
the old mode where we’ve
been previously harvesting
resources that were plentiful
and cheap to one where we
are managing resources that
are scarce and valuable.
James Bradfield Moody
— Unleashing the Sixth Wave of Innovation
Ultimately the pedagogy of teardown labs is to work
out how these products have been designed badly and
work out how we can improve the design and make
it better.
Steve Parkinson — Transforming D&T Education
Things get very exciting when you connect
manufacturers to their end of life products.
Rich Gilbert — TU Delft Session 1 : Pioneers of Design
HEADLINERS
MARK MIODOWNIK
Professor of Materials & Society
and Director of the Institute
of Making at University College
London (UCL)
There’s this even greater need
now for this more holistic view
of designing and building and
then re-making objects.
ELLEN MACARTHUR
Founder,
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The system within which we
live is not currently designed
to run in the long-term.
SIR KEN ROBINSON
Author and Educator
The great driver of human
culture is creative thinking
and innovation.
WEEK 3
880 MENTIONS
ON TWITTER
QUOTES FROM
THE WEEK
86
SESSIONS
7. 7DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
HEADLINERS
JANINE BENYUS
Co-Founder, Biomimicry 3.8
Biomimicry is a practical way to emulate the 3.8 billion
years of R&D.
MICHAEL PAWLYN
Director of Exploration Architecture and
Founding Partner of The Sahara Forest Project
These kind of cyclical interconnected systems result
in that money changing hands many more times
delivering much more social value and moving
towards being a zero waste system.
RACHEL BOTSMAN
Author & Founder, Collaborative Lab
My work focuses on how technology can unlock the
value in under-utilised assets.
DAVID ROWAN
Editor, WIRED magazine
This network which is distributed, which doesn’t have
someone as the central banker, which is based on
facilitating friction-free transactions... is bringing in a
layer of convenience and innovation that banks and
card services haven’t brought for 50 years.
WEEK 4
1,127 MENTIONS
ON TWITTER
QUOTES FROM
THE WEEK
The circulation of knowledge in an open society is what
can enable a circular economy to take shape.
Gary Walsh — Head2Head Article: Consumers
Are the Solution
Technologies have developed in recent years that are
powerful and are open to individuals, communities and
small businesses to use. These smart technologies can
change cities for the better.
Rick Robinson — Technologies for Smarter Cities
3D printing being additive rather than subtractive
inherently reduces material waste. Its design freedom
allows sophisticated internal structures that provide
strength, while reducing material requirements by as
much as 90%.
Phil Brown — Head2Head Article: 3D Printing Offers A
Waste-Free Future
Complex systems are not actually controllable.
Robin de Carteret — Living on the Edge of Chaos
Living On The Edge of Chaos
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SESSIONS
8. 8DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
GLOBAL
REACH
To activate entrepreneurs,
designers and educators
globally by communicating
the opportunities of a
circular economy.
OBJECTIVES AND REACH
NEW
ENGAGEMENT
MODEL
To develop thinking fit for the
21st century through a new
online learning model that
is open access and working
creatively to connect with a
network of innovators who
have the capability to disrupt
the global economy.
INSPIRING
SPEAKERS
AND STORIES
To demonstrate a shift
in progress by identifying the
new stories and breakthroughs
of circular innovators and how
they can move to scale.
9,421 Facebook likes
Over 225 hours of programmed content
850,000 page views
from 170 countries
Over 70,000 unique website visitors
950,000 @thinkdif impressions3,771 #thinkdif mentions
9,151 registrations
4,101,553 reached
via Facebook marketing
23,113 total session views
9. 9DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
DIF 2014 PARTNERS
MEDIA PARTNER: TECHNOLOGY PARTNER:
COLLABORATORS:
PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES (BIG TOP TENTS):
WIRED are delighted to be a partner of the
Ellen MacArthur Foundation for this event,
along with their other contributors including
Stanford, UCL and Cisco.
@WIRED
From the 20th October — 14th November 2014
thought leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses,
makers and doers will join to discuss the future
of business and technology.
@CISCO
The Disruptive Innovation Festival has collaborated with a range
of outstanding partners for its first year.
Media Partner, WIRED, stimulated conversations both online and in print
amongst entrepreneurs and designers interested in how the economy
is changing.
With the support of our Technology Partner Cisco, the DIF showed how
connectivity is enabling new and engaging methods of learning and doing.
Other collaborators included 16 universities who brought academic expertise
to their Big Top Tents, showcasing the latest research and making the DIF
truly international. Finally, we worked with established and emerging
networks who share the drive to catalyse innovations that are shaping
the future economy.
10. 10DIF 2014 ROUND UP REPORT
A FANTASTIC new concept
to have a Festival online —
allowing as much or as little
participation as people
wanted or could manage.
AN ENGAGING conversation
about all the possibilities of a
circular future — all accessible
on your computer.
A STUNNING GLOBAL
line-up of inspirational
speakers and real life
examples showing that the
circular economy is already
happening and what its
potential could be.
DIF IS A GREAT example of
an open platform that invites
you to dive into the circular
economy thinking and get
to know people working
on the transition towards
a circular economy.
I FOUND IT AN
INNOVATIVE FORM for
exchanging information,
questions and opinions
with a targeted group of
interested professionals
across borders.
THE DIF IS TRULY
an outstanding event, we have
never seen anything like this.
EXCELLENT SELECTION
of topics; great content and
speakers; and convenient
format. I enjoyed every
single minute of it!
DIF WAS A RICH, interactive,
inspiring programme that
provided opportunities to learn
about the circular economy
from varied and diverse experts,
entrepreneurs, and educators.
WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE DIF
Quotes sourced from the DIF 2014 participant feedback form.
Thanks to all who submitted their comments.
DIF, unforgettable virtual
meeting point for any
entrepreneur dealing with
transformative economies.
11. THANKSfor the huge amount of very positive and useful feedback.
We are already working on new and exciting ideas for DIF 2015.
Next year’s festival will be bigger and better.
DIF 2015 will have guided schedules tailored to fit your
interests, it will have even more connections with the insights
and individuals that you want to work with and it will highlight
how to take advantage of today’s business opportunities.
We look forward to welcoming you and your contributions
to DIF 2015.
Register your interest to contribute or
participate at thinkdif.co
2015