
Phil Balagtas
@neshacom1
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Founder of the Design Futures Initiative/PRIMER Conference
Barcelona, Spain
Joined March 2010
RT @rainfilmfest: First AI Film Festival in Europe .Research on AI Narratives. @comunicacioUPF Campus in Barcelona.June 14 2023 . Part of @….
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I'll be running another 2 sessions of my FACILITATING FUTURES workshop @voltagectrl This is a great program for those who are already familiar with Futures Thinking and want to enhance their approach. Free info/demo session avail at
voltagecontrol.com
Voltage Control hosts public workshops, facilitation conferences, facilitation lab, custom workshops, and summits focused on developing facilitation capability and community building and improving...
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Speaking @AIGAdesign Conference in Seattle this morning!.
See you at #AIGADesignConf for our symposium: Futuring 🔮 Together with @devjpow, @chriscosteshere, @neshacom1, @davidcolbyreed, and @sshahfari, we'll explore how futuring emerged as a field adjacent to various design fields >>
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RT @futuryst: Thrilled to share my latest project, a public imagination toolkit in open access, created with @FilippoCuttica and published….
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〈( .)ノCheering for @ourplantiverse in 1st place for People’s Lovie! RT + VOTE: (。)丿#Lovies.
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We're having a FREE info session and demo on our upcoming Facilitating Futures program. If you're interested to see what we'll be doing before you sign up join us on Aug 10
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I'm excited to announce a workshop I created with @VoltageControl called Facilitating Futures a 2-day program that discusses the other important aspects of designing and building futures engagements and workshops #Futures #futuresthinking.
voltagecontrol.com
Futures Thinking is an evolving practice that uses design and analysis methods for looking ahead to understand future market conditions so that you can prepare for opportunities or threats. It can be...
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Congrats to all the winners and notables of the 2022 @core77 Speculative Design awards!
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Proud to have a chapter in this upcoming book alongside some really amazing leaders in #Futures and #SpeculativeDesign 😇🙌.
📚 OUT NOW: Experimental Realism: Design Fictions and Futures dives into a world of speculative design, social fiction and alternative models. Edited by @gem_shandy with articles from @neshacom1 @liam_young @KathyQNothstine @Superflux & more! Available:
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Given recent unfortunate events in the US re: the overturn of Roe v Wade🤦♂️ I'd love to see more (futures) work to imagine how we're going to cope. Loved this proj by Madeleine Eggers.
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RT @RIBABooks: 📚 OUT NOW: Experimental Realism: Design Fictions and Futures dives into a world of speculative design, social fiction and al….
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Thanks to all of you for your patience, and to those of you who supported my vision and leadership and I hope you will continue to support and evolve the communities and movements that we have inspired around the world.
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Thus, as some of you may already know, I’ve decided to embark on a new journey exploring new applications for Futures by consulting for businesses and training teams. I will continue to carry on that mission of making futures work under a new entity (currently called HABITAT).
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The intent, to invite Design + Futures together as a critical strategy for thinking about the future, is a mission that I'm still passionate about and continues to spark important conversations globally.
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So after several years of love, sweat and tears working as an evangelist, strategist, event organizer, social media manager, conference producer, production manager, facilitator, and leader, it’s time to move on.
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But establishing a volunteer-operated nonprofit is not easy. And I did as much as I possibly could to learn and develop new strategies to bring Futures to the masses.
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The Design Futures Initiative was more than just an idea. It was a necessity to help organize our conference, PRIMER, and to connect the communities that were forming around the world who were interested in this emerging topic.
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I am officially stepping down as President of @Futures_Design It’s been about 7yrs since we launched the first Speculative Futures meetup in San Francisco as an attempt to democratize Speculative Design and Futures Thinking.
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