Business, Industry & Innovation is a CWG that explores the relationship between design schools and corporations\/companies and the evolution of design as a strategic discipline of innovation in a socio-economic context disrupted by shifts in ecological awareness, digital culture, and the rise of artificial intelligence. A recurrent question this group investigates is the evolving role of designers as project managers and the agency required by designers to master economic and managerial capabilities and intelligence towards their productions.<\/p>\n
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KITCHEN TABLE – conversations on designing future economies <\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u2019the masters tools, will never dismantle the masters house\u2019 thank you Audre Lourde \u2022 The status quo is organised through the principles, practices of \u2018capitalism\u2019 and markets while they may have delivered broad benefits to individuals and to society, however, they have also produced serious inequities and profound negative consequences. <\/p>\n \u2022 The political and economic ecologies have shaped our current world from industrial development towards our post-industrial world – are more and more, not holding up to the incredible transformations from technology to climate change and social revolutions.<\/p>\n \u2022 The economy is a complex set of interrelationships – social, environmental cultural, technological – how do we renew these interrelations? <\/p>\n Pragmatically this complexity needs us to work as collectives. We would like to invite you to our kitchen table to share thoughts, experiences and questions on how we practically change things. We shall bring examples from things we are prototyping.<\/p>\n
\nWe are in a state of transition, one could even argue crisis – that asks some of us fundamental questions about how we organise societies and economies. <\/p>\n
\nSo, how can we move beyond the lone genius myth of both the entrepreneur the artist, the designer – towards collective, collaborative, cooperative, and new practices of entrepreneurial development – that can shape new economies? <\/p>\n