Workshop
Future City OS: how to operate the city in 2030
Gabriele Demarin & Luca Mascaro
Hosted by Sketchin
Experience how creating alternative future visions can transform the way we design today’s product
/services.
The future is a matter of vision, ambition and plan. Design can be the driving force to create alternative scenarios and define preferable futures.
Can we go beyond the smart city concept? Can we imagine how the city will be operated in 2030? Can we design different visions for the city management and service delivery for the citizens? The workshop aims at creating alternative scenarios of the city of the future and showing how the speculative design approach can change the way we envision today’s products and services.
Workshop tickets are sold separately from other conference events.
Outline
This workshop is made by different design sessions: in the first one, we will imagine a scenario that describes how the city will be operated ten years from now, then we will move back and ideate solutions for today consistent with the developed future scenario, and we will debate on the desirability of the future we have envisioned.
Target audience
The workshop is for both designers and professionals, no prior experience is required.
About the speakers
Gabriele Demarin
Gabriele is a Design Director in Sketchin, his main focus is understanding and improving the end to end experience of the users, working with teams of highly skilled designers to achieve the best possible result. Country-less by heart, a visual artist in his non-professional time, his independent and keen eye on the world and human nature let him identify and anticipate design trends and develop envisioning scenarios.
Luca Mascaro
Luca is a designer and a serial entrepreneur. His 20+ years of practice has been inspired by sci-fi, architecture and Japanese culture. In 2006 he founded Sketchin to meet a challenge: mould a world where people can live experiences over their expectations. He is Scientific Director of the UX Master at the TAG Innovation School in Milan. He has been a professor of UX Design in universities such as SUPSI and CSIA in Switzerland and lecturer at Politecnico di Milano, IULM, SSSAA. Luca serves as Board Advisor in several companies.