D14 Main Speaker

1. Prof. Irene McAra McWilliam
Head of School of Design & Director of Design
Innovation, Glasgow School of Art

2. Irene McAra-McWilliam

4. Paul Baran
‘On Distributed Communications’
The Rand Corporation, 1964

8. • a future all-digital-data distributed network
• common user service
• wide range of users
• low-cost links
• high degree of connectivity
'On Distributed Communications’
Paul Baran, The Rand Corporation, 1964
the distributed communications
network concept

20. www.dementiadog.org

21. High Rise Glasgow
Edmund White, Hsin Chen, Shweta Manikashetti, Zane Gray, Hsin-chieh Yeh

22. designing for discontinuities
• designing alternative futures
• tools for intelligent decision-making
• foresight to generate insight
• action in the present

23. which future?
probable
[ like today, but bigger – or worse ]
Irene McAra-McWilliam

24. which future?
probable
possible?
[ like a menu of uninteresting choices ]
Irene McAra-McWilliam

25. which future?
probable
possible
preferable
[ ethically directed towards human wellbeing ]
Irene McAra-McWilliam

26. • Qualities of long life
– 0 - 100
• Extreme collaborations
– micro to macro
• Clusters and communities
– meso-economic
• Distributed care
– the sharing economy
• Flat leadership: ‘devo lux’
– power and participation
• Social and cognitive development
– the dominant ‘technologies’
digital futures: opportunities
Irene McAra-McWilliam

27. digital futures: opportunities

28. Irene McAra-McWilliam