Thinkers & Ideas Assembling Tomorrow with Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter
In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explore the intangible forces that make it hard to anticipate how new technologies create impact and what we can do about this challenge during the design process for new applications.
Carter is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford – also known as the Stanford d.school. Doorley is a Creative Director at the d.school, having previously worked in the film industry for more than a decade.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, they discuss how designers, technologists, and corporate leaders can more effectively harness transformative technologies like AI and artificial biology by giving more weight to non-technical factors like emotions, perceptions, imagination, and serendipity.
Key topics discussed:
01:23 | The problem of runaway design
03:16 | The forces that make technology impact unpredictable
09:17 | The role of emotions in design
11:59 | Why we are not thinking about unpredictability in designing technologies
15:17 | Potential solutions to new design problems
22:22 | Applying these solutions to AI
24:20 | Implications for businesses
Additional inspirations from Scott Doorley:
Additional inspirations from Carissa Carter:
- The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data (Ten Speed Press, 2022)