Hillary Carey
Hillary Carey, Design Futures, Just Visions
Keynote: Social Design Dreaming
For those of us striving to create positive change, compelling visions of a better future can be a powerful tool. Clear and inspiring aspirations help us recognize what is lacking in the present and boost our motivation to pursue something better. However, there are obstacles to embracing radically optimistic futures. Change is often seen as something that requires struggle and sacrifice, rather than joy and creativity. This keynote talk will explore how we can overcome the internal, interpersonal, institutional, and ideological resistance to embracing long-term hopeful visions of the worlds we wish to create.
Workshop: Step into a future where government embeds dignity in program and service design
Participatory Experiential Futures is a powerful technique for imagining and engaging people in visions of better futures. Our team invited California public servants and partners to imagine and then step into potential future scenarios. We built experiences where technology and processes center the voices of the people most impacted by decisions. You can join us in that future and participate in activities to respond to and re-imagine these future visions. You’ll experience PXF first-hand and discuss small and large ways to engage in collective imagination for your own projects.
About Hillary
Hillary Carey, PhD, is a designer, researcher, educator, and leadership coach focusing on participatory design and collective visioning. Through her doctorate at Carnegie Mellon, she defined visionary strategies for collaborative leadership concentrating on social systems change and equitable design processes. Her justice-based approaches to design futuring have been published in Design Issues and the Journal of Futures Studies.