I'm calling out the elephant in the room: being a 'creative' is just not experienced as professional behaviour. That's a century or two of cultural conditioning for you :(. Darn! I want to proudly self-identify as an Explorer! We all should!
Why? Because creative problem solving is the only job of the future. So I'm talking about you too! Let's take pride in bringing our creativity to the table.
(This short talk is followed up by a workshop (challenge) on the same topic at 14:30, Stage 2.)
DIYbio is a worldwide movement of bioscientists democratising biosciences. Biotechnology and biosciences have undergone a technological revolution. Once reserved for the powerful and rich few, they have now become affordable and easy to practise independently in a DIY fashion. ReaGent is one of those Do-It-Yourself bio labs that emerged in Ghent, Belgium. We put the power of working with living matter, micro-organisms and DNA in the hands of everyone, by sharing infrastructure and knowledge together with a growing community.
Transhumanism is related to the story of DIYbio. The goal of transhumanism is to enhance human intellectual, physical and psychological capacities, to earn the label of a posthuman being. The two meet where people with no means want to experiment on the human body, usually their own, with the aim of improving themselves using technology. A DIYbio lab provides the infrastructure required for such self-determination.
Enhancing the human body with technology, adding new functions and senses, becoming a cyborg. These things seem to come straight out of a science fiction movie, but they are already happening in real life right now.
In the documentary ‘Biohacking: we need een upgrade’, we follow a group of biohackers. These people who are working in basements and piercing shops to implant self-designed technological implants. They think that humans are imperfect and limited. Technology evolves so much faster than humans do, so why wouldn’t you merge them to help speeding up evolution?
Redesigning organizations is out of focus on this stage ! Asking corporations to change the frame of profit maximization is like asking a bear to change its DNA and become a swan. To really unleash human potential, to create not for profit but for the benefit of life, to thrive as communities, to we need pioneers: a new breed of entrepreneurs, who create radically new types of organizations. This takes far more than incremental changes within the existing framework of an extractive economic model, and more than just starting over with fresh ideas and good ideals. Take out every player on a football team, and put in all new players : it's still football !
The question we ask is : what are the patterns that allow sustainable self-organization around serving the needs of life ?
We set out to draw a 30000 ft map, to offer an inspiring and enlightening compass for seekers, innovators and world changers who want to co-create their own organization around a Living Purpose.
Expect to learn about Ownership Design, Organizational Design, Governance, Communities and Commons, New Business Models, Technology, Leadership - and the links between all these and the (Living) System Purpose, which reveals itself over time as a series of events. Expect to be shaken out of your comfort zone !
Creativity, exploration. Why are these aspects of our work all but taboo? Let’s open the dialogue. Why do they make us or our managers feel uneasy? Why does this matter? How can we become more at ease as explorers of our 21st century?
(This open challenge is a follow up on my short talk 10:30 at Stage 1. I am an explorer. I believe we should all be able to proudly put this on our resume. I’ll explain this in my short talk. Here, we have up to 90 minutes to explore further.)
Short description:
2015 was characterized by unparalleled dynamics in the area of artificial intelligence not only in the technological perspective - AI becomes one of the most important tools for UX designers. It can make the interaction mit machines more human and integrate it flawlessly in our daily lives. But is there a flip side, will AI be the end of the design and designer as we know them?
Keywords:
AI, personalization, Zero UI, micro interactions, robotics, algorithms, privacy
Long Description:
Tech giants such as Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon not only proclaimed artificial intelligence as the strategic priority that will determine the future of their organizations, but have successively announced the achievement of new milestones. What has made these milestones exceptional is that instead allowing these new advancements to influence only their own products, these companies have made their successful developments available to all other organizations for use and integration into their respective products.
And as AI is being integrated into more and more products, it will also influence the way we think about customer experience and user interfaces. We are getting used to some early AI-enabled approaches involving predictive personalization and conversational interfaces.
With Zero UI (or "no UI") we can go one step further. Thanks to computer vision and voice recognition machines can understand our way of communicating: our words, mimics and gestures. Especially wearables such as smart watches or home automation systems like Google Nest clearly show that a graphic user interface (GUI) is a limiting factor for increasingly smaller computers.
All tech giants followed Apple with their versions of voice activated assistants that contain a range of AI components and made pro-active experiences possible: Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, Facebook M, Amazon Echo – yes, even Barbie – interact with human beings using natural language and carry out an ever increasing set of functions.
While it may seem counterintuitive, AI combined with UX huge step into humanizing the human-machine-interaction. A goal of great UX is to continually learn from its customers to increase usability and joy of use, to minimize errors and frustrations. AI can make efforts to reach it lot easier.
But is there a flip side to this amazing development? What are the consequences of the artificially intelligent design for our privacy and self-determination? Will AI be the end of the design and designer as we know them?
