Designing Products of the Future
Introduction
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Introduction
Overview
“A little bit about myself here in this lesson, my journey and my inspiration. I wanted there to be futures synthesists, and the best way to show people what I meant was to create one and become it myself. Because then I can help everyone else put themselves into their own ideas, and make them happen. Everyone, no matter your background. If you thought about tomorrow, this class is relevant to you. And the one thing all of us have in common is that we'll be living in the future.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Products of the Future. Learn to research and design dynamic and problem-solving products for a better future.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hi, my name is Cecilia Tham. I am a future synthesist and this is my Domestika course. You're probably here because you're interested in the future, probably since you were a child. I know I was, My favorite pastime, like a lot of you, was daydreaming about the future, what city I would live in, what my house would look like, who I'd be living with, what kind of life I'd have and what kind of job I'd have in the future. I constantly had to play with my imagination 'cause I was moving from places to places, city to city, continent to continent and culture to culture, so I used m...”
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Course summary for: Designing Products of the Future
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Design, Design Management, Industrial Design, Information Design, Product Design
Cecilia Tham
A course by Cecilia Tham
As an industry leader, Cecilia MoSze Tham is founder and director of Futurity Studio, an innovative future-focused research and design studio. She was a Senior Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica. She has founded multiple companies such as MOB: Makers of Barcelona; FabCafe, a café that combines technology, workshops, and coffee; and Allwomen.tech, the first A.I. training campus for women.
Cecilia is the recipient of numerous awards such as the Faculty Design Award by Harvard University and Creative Entrepreneur of the Year by Creative Net. Cecilia has given talks at World Mobile Congress, Smart City Expo, IAM Fest, SHIFT Open FAD, and 4YFN, as well as four TEDx talks. She was a regular contributor to the newspaper L’Econòmic and La Roca Gallery. Cecilia participated at the Singularity University Global Solution Program for climate change at NASA Ames and she is currently an advisor for United Nation World Food Program X.
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