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Radha Mistry
Associate Principal, Americas Foresight Leader
Arup
Radha Mistry is Arup’s Americas Foresight Leader and an Associate Principal in the Los Angeles office. Radha has worked at Arup in both San Francisco and London, helping global clients anticipate emerging signals of change and the impacts they will have on the way we design and build in the future.
Radha’s background spans architecture, narrative environments, and strategic foresight. Throughout her career, Radha has been a leading voice in the development of foresight both in professional practice and academia, building foresight fluency across organizations like Autodesk, where she served as Foresight leader, and working with executive leadership to drive key foresight-led initiatives.
Radha serves on the Foresight Advisory Council for the Middle East Institute, and teaches as part-time faculty on the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at The New School (Parsons) and the DesignMBA program at the California College of the Arts. She holds a Master of Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design as well as a Master of Architecture from Tulane University.
RADAR DAO
Collective
RADAR
Radar is a decentralized collective. We identify, track and evaluate evolving, novel and cultural or cultural shifts. In each cycle we choose one future that we all get behind. We engage and inspire builders to bring that future closer to reality. We give people ownership in that future to become citizens of it.
We believe ‘the future belongs to those who think about it’. Set into action, that means it’s our mission to inspire more people, and we mean waaaay more people to think about and build better futures. But not just more of the same: we’re talking about truly, deeply inclusive futures, which means bringing together perspectives from around the world and across every walk of life into the center of the stories we tell and futures we imagine.
Elliot Montgomery
Professor
Lawrence Technological University
Elliot Mongtomery is senior strategic foresight specialist at Autodesk. He says futures are social constructs of a later time, and they help us explore change. While futures are not strategy, they can offer insights that drive towards strategies or plans. As a design researcher, strategist and educator his work focuses on foresight and speculative inquiries into the impacts of social, technological and environmental change. He is currently Senior Strategic Foresight Specialist at Autodesk. He formerly served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School. He is also the co-founder of The Extrapolation Factory, an award winning design-futures research studio based in Brooklyn. He was previously a design research resident at the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy as well receiving the Graham Foundation's Individual Grant and The Shed's Open Call commission. He holds a Master's in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London and a Bachelor's in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Why Attend?
What do I get?
Aside from a network of new professional connections within an emerging domain that leverages human insight, imagination, ingenuity, and intelligence, every attendee receives complete take-away package, including presentations, annotated audio recordings, and a post-Seminar review and analysis
What was covered?
Super Seminar Season 00 / Episode 01 hosted by Near Future Laboratory looked into Futures & Foresight practices, an existentially vital form of sense-making. Translating trends, analytic research, ethnographic studies, desk analysis, these practices are in wide use amongst forward-thinking R&D and Innovation teams looking to anticipate and prepare for the contingencies of kinetic, complicated, conflicted and chaotic domains.
(If you were an attendee at SuperSeminar S02/E01, you have access to the entire seminar 120 minute recording. Contact Julian if you did not receive your instructions for access.)
SuperSeminar gives you the opportunity to not only learn from experienced practitioners, but engage in a discussion, create professional connections, and learn how you can develop the kinds of skills and the mindset to adopt unique insights into change.
Produced by Julian Bleecker founder of Near Future Laboratory
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Come prepared for a meaningful, rich discussion. We believe discussion and conversation, in a world where we often find ourselves on the receiving end of a firehose of ideas, is dramatically undervalued.
SuperSeminar is not your usual online presentation platform. We've inverted the model.
No more long presentations followed by 0 minutes for deep discussion, engagement, and Q&A.
In SuperSeminar, our presenters offer a tight 15-20 minute evocation, sharing brief insights on the topic from their experience. Then, much like a graduate seminar or salon, we #discuss the topic, offering attendees a unique opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the presenters and other attendees.