Latest Speaker for Creative York Symposium-The Next Dimension

Today’s session in Manchester run by Forum for the Future, (a technology strategy board initiative) on how Creative Industries can lead the way in reducing the impact of climate change, was really inspiring.

We spent the day looking at 4 different future scenarios looking forward 10 and 30 years and focussing on how we would deal with predicted opportunities and challenges that a range of creative industries might face.  The scenarios explored the social, political, economic and psychological consequences of climate change and identified 5* plausible global responses, describing 5 different worlds by 2030.  These scenarios comprised  ’protectionist’, ‘service transformation’, ‘redefining process’, and ‘efficiency first’ world views and each presented different opportunities and threats for the creative industries to tackle.

*(we only had time to look through 4 of the 5)

The last part of the workshop focussed on generating actions to take from the day and implement in the near future as well as aspirations looking forward.

We can help reduce planetary damage through innovative design, marketing, creating, inventing as well as through general problem solving across all industries as well as in our own business practice and everyday lives.

Findings from this workshop, (as well as ideas from a similar workshop run in Bristol earlier this year) will be discussed by Fiona Bennie, Senior Sustainability Advisor in Innovation for the ‘Forum for the Future’ group, at our Creative York Symposium – The Next Dimension in October.  We will be adding her into the programme this week!

Background thinking around our symposium can be found in the previous blog and the link above will take you to further info, how to book and the latest programme.  We will be adding biographies, video links and further info to this blog site over the next few weeks to give you more information around the content for the day.

Watch this space…Hope you can make it!

~ by creativedigitalyork on September 21, 2010.