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Dr. Jorge Camacho: Preferable Worlds - Design & Alternative Futures | Media Design School at Strayer

'Preferable Worlds: Design and Alternative Futures' by Dr. Jorge Camacho (CENTRO, IFTF, Mexico) as part of our Designing Radical Futures Symposium In 2021-2022, Jorge Camacho curated “The Great Imagination: Histories of the Future” for Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid. The exhibition traced the explosion of futures imagination since the eighteenth century, which arguably fed into the process of socio-economic and environmental upheaval that Earth scientists call “the Great Acceleration.” This process has delivered us into an era of multiple, converging crises whose resolution will decide what happens in the following decades and beyond. To explore this, the show featured a set of originally-commissioned installations that explored four alternative futures for the world in 2050. This critical moment and alternative possibilities emerge when design is recognized as a key profession across every industry, and therefore, as a practice that seems uniquely positioned to steer change and turn this crisis into a transition toward preferable futures. In this talk, Jorge Camacho will explore the evolution of design against the backdrop of the Great Acceleration and four alternative directions for the evolution of design practice by the middle of this century. He will inspire us to imagine ourselves as future designers and how design could contribute and adapt to each of these alternative futures. Jorge Camacho holds a Master’s degree in Cybernetic ​​Culture and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of East London. He is a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future, a world-leading futures organisation, and a co-founder of Diagonal, a research, design, and futures studio based in Mexico City. He is also the director of the Master’s in Design: Methods and Explorations at CENTRO where he also lectures on strategic design, futures thinking, and systems thinking. He has taught postgraduate courses at Ibero (CDMX), UAL (London), IED (Madrid), Domus Academy (Milan), EGADE Business School (Monterrey and CDMX), ISDI (CDMX), h2i institute (Madrid), among others. Both in his professional practice and academic work, he is particularly interested in how design practices can drive social change. -------------------------------------------------- Explore our Foundation, Undergrad and Postgrad courses: https://www.mediadesignschool.com/ --------------------------------------------------- Connect with us and follow our story: → Blog: https://www.mediadesignschool.com/news → Facebook: / mediadesignschool → Instagram: / mediadesignschool → Twitter: / mdsnz --------------------------------------------------- Media Design School at Strayer is New Zealand's leading tertiary institution for creative and digital technology qualifications. Our alumni can be found working at world leading names in the creative & tech sectors - from Weta Digital in New Zealand, to LucasFilm Singapore and Microsoft UK. Learn more about MDS: https://www.mediadesignschool.com/