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[MOOC] New and emerging digital markets for Creative Industries
A project by
Distributed Design Platform
About the project
Welcome to the MOOC “New and emerging digital markets for Creative Industries”
The opportunity for the representation of the shift in the role and responsibility of the designer
Welcome to the dynamic MOOC “New and Emerging Digital Markets for Creative Industries” where we bring you a stellar lineup of expert speakers who will unlock the potential of digital markets in the realm of creative industries. Get ready to explore groundbreaking topics and discover the exciting possibilities that lie ahead.
In Topic 1, “Driven by Distributed Design,” join Nat Hunter and Gareth Owen Lloyd from Other Today as they delve into the world of distributed design. Gain insights into how this innovative approach is shaping the future of creative industries and explore the opportunities it presents for designers and makers.
Next up in Topic 2, “Communicating Design,” Fab Lab Barcelona, renowned for their expertise in communication, takes the stage. Learn the art of effective design communication and discover how to convey your ideas and creations to a global audience, amplifying your impact in the digital marketplace.
In Topic 3, “Future(s) Design and Making Alternative Presents,” Mariana Quintero, an expert in future-oriented design, will guide you through envisioning alternative futures and designing for transformative change. Discover how to use the Atlas of Weak Signals for your project!
Join us on this transformative journey, where you’ll gain valuable insights, practical knowledge, and inspiration to thrive in the new and emerging digital markets for creative industries. Embrace the power of digital connectivity, communication, and forward-thinking design to unlock new opportunities and drive your creative endeavors to new heights.
Driven by Distributed Design
Distributed Design has its origins in maker culture and celebrates tinkering, hacking and serious play but it also has the potential to reduce the environmental and social impact of manufacturing and engage consumers to become active citizens through making.
The central question is not only how objects and data themselves can be distributed, but also value and power. The contemporary distributed designer needs to be able to embody multiple perspectives but instead of the nodes being those of customers and clients they must also include communities, objects, rivers, companies, and all living beings. Designing this way is an opportunity to experience and become aware of the complex systems behind things, which in turn can change your mindset.
Nat Hunter is a designer, educator and coach, currently exploring how regenerative culture and organisational behaviour can positively impact people, society and the planet. A systems thinker and agitator for change, she brings my experience in business, design and coaching together in order to create and support change. Most recently, in 2021 she co-created the influential Design Council report Beyond Net Zero: A Systemic Design Approach, researching and disseminating the optimal conditions and techniques for lasting systemic change. She is currently a Design For Planet Fellow at the Design Council, is running workshops internationally and supporting organisations to create regenerative culture
Gareth Owen Lloyd is the director of Other Today, a London based design studio that promotes the power of Distributed, Circular and Open design to radically reduce planetary impact, shift power & create a fairer society. Founded with Nat Hunter, the studio explores how regenerative culture and organisational behaviour can positively impact people, society and the planet. Senior Lecturer at Brighton University where Other Today run the Distributed Design studio on the Product Design with Professional Experience BSc(Hons)
Future(s) Design and making alternative presents
The Future(s) Design masterclass will encourage participants to transition from a speculative design approach towards a more open, participatory consideration of future forecasting through making, where alternative presents are prototyped and probed with and within hyperlocal socio/technical systems. We will guide participants through toolkits, exercises and activations they can use to reframe their practice within the possibilities of distributed design.
Mariana Quintero Emergent Futures Strategic Advisor
Multimedia developer, interaction designer and researcher. Mariana Quintero develops her practice at the intersection where digital fabrication technologies, digital literacy and the ethics and aesthetics of information and computation meet, contributing to projects that investigate the rise of the third digital revolution and how information and digital technologies translate, represent and mediate knowledge about the world. She is currently part of the strategic direction of the Master in Design for Emerging Futures MDEF and regularly contributes to various research projects at IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona.
Alejandra Tothill Design Researcher
Product developer, Spatial designer and researcher. Alejandra (Jana) Tothill develops her practice at the intersection between academia and industry, between art and design, where digital fabrication technologies, digital literacy and the ethics and aesthetics of information and computation meet, contributing to projects that investigate the rise of the third digital revolution and how information and digital technologies translate, represent and mediate knowledge about the world. She is currently part of the strategic direction of the Master in Design for Emerging Futures MDEF
Communicating Creative and Cultural Practices
The Communicating Creative and Cultural practices masterclass will cover the basics of effectively communicating your work. We’ll explore: how you identify your community; how to describe what you do; how you create your community; and how to make content. The class will reference successful examples of communicating design and will close with a practical exercise to help prepare you to make your own content.
Sally Bourdon Civic ecology Expert
Sally is a biologist and ecological economist by training from Hamilton College (NY, USA) and the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB, Barcelona), respectively. However, she has a multidisciplinary background which also includes teaching biology and English; supporting school garden and sustainable food activities; assessing the holistic sustainability of rooftop gardens; marketing, communications and events, both in the US and Spain. She uses her diverse experience and a transecofeminist perspective to support the creation of a just and equitable present based on citizen-centered societies and economies that produce locally and connect globally. She is passionate about making information accessible to people of all backgrounds and equipping citizens and communities with the tools they need to participate in creating the world around them. Sally is currently an action researcher at Fab Lab Barcelona working on the Distributed Design Market Platform, a Creative Europe project, and Food Tech 3.0, one of the nine Accelerator Labs of the EU Horizon 2020 project FoodSHIFT 2030.