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“We need an infrastructure that deepens our spiritual connection to the world – a spiritual infrastructure.”Filmmaker, designer and futurist Anab Jain (she/her) wants us to keep asking ”what if”. How might we flourish by living in a different way than today? You might know her work with the foresight and design studio Superflux from the Venice Biennale, where they created a banquet for 12 different species in 2021. That’s just one example of how we can imagine the future through storytelling. And not just one future but many different possible futures.Anab introduces two ideas for rewilding our minds and the planet: Expanding the self through interconnectedness, and intergenerational ecological time. A great example of the latter is the ”seven generation stewardship” employed by some indigenous peoples in America. It’s a way of safe-guarding the planet for use at the same (or an even better) rate than now.Dive into Anab’s inspirational talk that takes us from Bhutan, to London and back again.
10 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT
Matt Jones – Planetary Energy System Changes at Street Level
”We don’t have an energy problem, we have a matter problem.”Matt Jones (he/him) has been designing digital products and services since 1995. Most recently he was Head of Design at Lunar Energy, a company building the world’s best clean energy products to deliver home electrification at scale. From 2013-2021 he worked at Google as a Principal Designer, primarily in Google Research working on advanced AI concepts for hardware and software. Now he is focusing on helping the solar energy sector harness more of the power already available to us.Have you heard of Nikolai Kardashev? Matt introduces the Kardashev Scale, measuring a civilisation’s technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing. From the planetary to the stellar, even to the galactic scale – this might sound like the stuff of Star Trek, but it’s quite simple. Matt believes that with the existing wind, water and solar power available to us (plus storage capabilities) we can reach Type 1 living on the Kardashev scale – we’re currently only at 0.7.By working with the 3Ds of energy: decarbonisation, digitisation and decentralisation – products like the solar batteries produced by Lunar can help us get all the electricity we need, while still leaving fossil fuels behind.
3 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT
Tony Olsson – Beyond the Threshold
“When we know who enters what, we can also adapt the situation accordingly”As a part of the session ”Entangled and Enmeshed”, Tony Olsson shares with us his experience of working on UX design for access control management products. Tony (he/him) has been in the tech industry for many years, including at companies like Assa Abloy who, through their manufacturing, work literally with doors and locks.From physical objects to their virtual counterparts, doors have existed as long as civilisation itself, marking the boundary between the public and private, between the known and unknown. They reflect the complexity of their time and hold deep cultural significance.Tony warns of potential danger as our virtual doors become more and more invisible. The structure of metaphorical doors, such as login pages, have implications for how we think about digital spaces and places. Tony urges us to think critically about which doors we use and which we remove.
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Anab Jain – Rewilding Our Imaginations
Published 10 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Other examples of such intergenerational thinking is already here to give us hope in Wales they've created the Future Generations Commissioner ensuring every decision considers the long term impact. In Germany, Hungary, Norway and Brazil, they have started to recognize the right of future generations in their constitution, and Germany has even used climate litigation to force stronger action, recognizing the need to protect those who come after us. From policies rooted in intergenerational equity to climate justice movements, from composing music that echoes for a thousand years to wisdom councils that weave the fabric of long term thinking, and planting trees for future libraries, these practices span the globe seeing their place and their community through generational and ecological lenses. […]
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