The Conference 2016
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Exploring alternative futures | Angela Oguntala | 42m |
Visions shape decisions and also narrow them, so the piece argues for expanding story sources and building tangible scenarios to test alternatives. It shows a… | ||
| Online Harassment | Michelle Mederos | 15m |
A Facebook design team builds an impersonation alert that notifies accounts when a fake profile appears and lets victims report directly; usability testing in… | ||
| Getting real with virtual reality | David Eriksson | 16m |
Argues VR will grow into an industry (analysts project 80 billion by 2025) but adoption hurdles remain: investors have poured ~$3.5B recently and Facebook… | ||
| Getting real with virtual reality | Gabo Arora | 16m |
UN virtual reality unit builds short immersive documentaries like Clouds Over Sidra (a 12‑year‑old in Zaatari camp) and a four‑minute cut shown in 40 countries… | ||
| Online Harassment | Caroline Sinders | 22m |
Two years of digital ethnography on Gamergate across Reddit, 4chan, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and ~40 user interviews show much harassment arises from… | ||
| Being an empathetic company | Marcela Sapone | 14m |
Company claims a simple formula: what you do compounded by how you do it — combine empathetic people and predictive tech to earn trust. Built weekly in‑home… | ||
| Getting Real with Virtual Reality | Jessica Brillhart | 15m |
Argues VR shifts authorship from storyteller to participant and gives concrete practices: use a 360 rig and previs to map likely gaze, design for a gradient of… | ||
| Being an empathetic company | Lain Shakespeare | 14m |
Argues companies must define core values separate from product and then act on shared values with partners, not impose technical fixes on political problems… | ||
| Humans, Labour and Technology | Guy Standing | 22m |
Claims that global labor supply quadruples adding 2 billion workers, and that rents from patents and property capture roughly 20% of global GDP, creating… | ||
| Humans, Labour and Technology | Sha Hwang | 24m |
The talk traces concrete instances where infrastructure shapes resistance and vice versa from Montgomery’s bus boycott that sustains a self‑organized ride… | ||
| A Future City | Liam Young | 01h 00m |
A near-future Detroit runs on laser scanners and point clouds, satellites at 6,711 mph and Earth-etched fiducial markers that calibrate machine vision, while… | ||
| Worms, sustainability and innovation | Matt Orlando | 52m |
Restaurant converts waste into new ingredients and systems: compost worms power onsite composting, leftover wine ferments into vinegar, coffee grounds become… | ||
| The future of food | Charles Spence | 18m |
Research shows visuals and sound change taste: images of food raise brain blood flow ~24%, online crowd tests of plating gather ~2,000 diner responses… | ||
| The future of food | Isha Datar | 16m |
Nonprofit New Harvest advances cellular agriculture and shows concrete prototypes: a meringue made from yeast-produced ovalbumin, milk and cheese proteins made… | ||
| The future of food | Arielle Johnsson | 14m |
Flavor centers on smell and especially retro-nasal olfaction, with olfactory receptor genes taking ~2% of the genome — roughly the same magnitude that… | ||
| Being an empathetic company | Leah Reich | 18m |
Argues empathy splits into emotional and cognitive empathy and is a learnable skill not a feel‑good buzzword, based on an 18-month ethnography of doctors… | ||
| Generative Design | Samim A. Winiger | 20m |
Generative systems map and sample huge creative spaces: a trained model of 1,000 fonts yields a two‑dimensional design explorer, CelebA (≈200,000 faces) lets… | ||
| Generative Design | Refik Anadol | 15m |
Argues that architecture can be a responsive canvas by turning data and movement into real-time visuals using custom generative software and off‑the‑shelf… | ||
| Generative Design | Jessica Rosenkrantz | 18m |
Generative design uses simple biological rules — diffusion-limited aggregation and differential growth — encoded into software to produce physical products… | ||
| Strategy is Dead – Long Live Meta-Strategy | JOHN V WILLSHIRE | 42m |
Argues that fixed five year plans fail and a meta-strategy approach wins by combining specific tools: physical playing cards and Sharpies to prototype… | ||
| Democratizing cities | Indy Johar | 54m |
Argues cities become democratic by changing flows of value and building collective intelligence, not by voting alone. Describes WikiHouse (32 chapters) as an… | ||
| Migration | Elena Pedrazzani | 11m |
Argues that access to data and connectivity matters as much as food or medicine, claiming information as survival and urging NGOs to supply Wi‑Fi power… | ||
| Artificial Intelligence in Services | Maya Weinstein | 14m |
Watson applies its NLP and QA engines to real products: it compares a tumor’s genetic changes to 20 million papers and finds a missed leukemia diagnosis in 10… | ||
| Artificial Intelligence in Services | Deborah Harrison | 21m |
Cortana’s entire voice copy is hand authored by an editorial team so every reply is scripted and testable rather than emergent AI behavior. The team defines… | ||
| Extremist communication | Maura Conway | 23m |
Longstanding extreme right networks move from BBS and websites to forums and mainstream platforms like Stormfront: ~12M posts then Reddit, 4chan and Tumblr… | ||
| One to One - A New Mode of Communication | Fernanda Saboia | 19m |
Messaging overtakes social networks between 2014 and 2015 as the dominant daily app use, driven by timing and response: SMS and messaging show 98% SMS open… | ||
| One to one - a new mode of communication | Martin Hoffmann | 20m |
Runs through concrete experiments and lessons: shows Quartz app with editorial backend (choose‑your‑path messaging that actually engages), BBC’s multi‑account… | ||
| Migration | Latoya Peterson | 14m |
Compares design and digital tools for affluent “digital nomads” (packable safety net, omnipresent community, Casita tiny homes) with refugee realities: IKEA… | ||
| Migration | Dragana Kaurin | 15m |
Localization Lab builds refugee-facing systems by doing ethnographic research, usability testing and localization with recently arrived refugees rather than… | ||
| Extremist communication | Michael Krona | 18m |
Two years of daily content analysis shows ISIS frames itself with two dominant narratives — a paradise-like functioning caliphate (welfare, schools, hospitals… | ||
| Global Outlook | Nazanin Daneshvar | 19m |
Founder builds Takhfifan as Iran’s first group-buying site, growing from 2 to 200 employees and from a few hundred subscribers to a half‑million list before… | ||
| DON'T TRUST THE TRUTH! | Tricia Wang | 52m |
Argues that technologies from linear perspective to VR and big data repeatedly turn a creator’s choices into “the truth,” producing predictable errors: Matteo… | ||
| Global Outlook | Jemma Xu | 18m |
Tripalocal launches in 2014 then relocates to Beijing and pivots into education tourism, claiming Chinese outbound travelers often want learning experiences… | ||
| Global Outlook | Toby Shapshak | 17m |
Africa claims six of the ten fastest-growing economies and a third of 1.1 billion people are middle class, yet more people have phones than electricity. Mobile… | ||
| Hacking Minecraft | Clive Thompson | 43m |
Argues that Minecraft produces a generation fluent in computational design by giving kids an open system to tinker with: they master redstone logic gates to… | ||
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