Lecture: Envisioning Futures of the Built Environment with Nick Dunn

Media Evolution is a community-owned, non-profit platform for co-creation, knowledge sharing, and futures-thinking in Malmö, Sweden.

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Join us for a lecture on how the built environment is imagined and their futures visualized, and why it’s important to get right.

About the lecture How can we create powerful visions that inspire and initiate action towards a more sustainable, equitable and flourishing future? What can the sectors shaping our built environments learn from the visions of our pasts and presents?Nick Dunn will join us in Malmö to give a lecture on envisioning the futures of people, places, and planet. Drawing on his work at the Imagination research lab, Professor Nick Dunn will talk about why communicating visions matters. In so doing he will share cases from the history of visualising imagination and methods for getting people and stakeholders aligned on the futures of society. Speaker <a href="https://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/person/nick-dunn/" title="https://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/person/nick-dunn/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nick Dunn</a> is Professor of Urban Design and Executive Director of <a href="https://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/" title="https://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Imagination</a>, the design and architecture research lab at Lancaster University. Nick’s work examines the ways we think, envision and analyze the futures of people, places, and planet. His research has been funded by numerous research councils and government bodies. Nick is the founding Director of the Dark Design Lab, exploring the impacts of nocturnal activity on humans and non-humans. He is also an Ambassador for the Design Council and a Director of DarkSky UK. Nick has authored numerous books, journal articles, and commissioned reports. His expertise on cities, design, futures, health, and darkness have led to curated exhibitions and invited talks at public festivals and conferences around the world Moderator Reeta Hafner, Foresight Lead, Media Evolution Agenda18.00 – Doors and bar open19.00 – Lecture starts19.45 – Q&amp;A, discussions, conversation and mingling20.30 – Event ends You can also participate digitally via the <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/mediaevolutionmalmo" title="https://www.twitch.tv/mediaevolutionmalmo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">live stream</a>.The lecture is organized as part of <a href="https://www.mediaevolution.se/project-details/The-Futures-We-Build" title="https://www.mediaevolution.se/project-details/The-Futures-We-Build" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Futures We Build</a>, a strategic project within S<a href="https://www.smartbuilt.se/" title="https://www.smartbuilt.se/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">mart Built Environment</a>, one of Sweden’s 17 Strategic Innovation Programs, with funding from <a href="https://www.vinnova.se/" title="https://www.vinnova.se/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vinnova</a> (Sweden’s innovation agency), <a href="https://www.energimyndigheten.se/en/" title="https://www.energimyndigheten.se/en/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Swedish Energy Agency </a>and <a href="https://formas.se/" title="https://formas.se/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Formas</a> (Swedish government research council for sustainable development).

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