Thinking like a good ancestor: learning the language of responsible innovation
Full day workshop, Wednesday August 29.
The high-speed disruption culture incubated by Silicon Valley companies and startups lacks tools to look beyond the immediacy of its path-to-market strategies. The tech world relies on user experience professionals to look beyond its engineering offices, but even then the scope of what we look at is the short-term reception of our developments by our users, and not the long-term shifts that will derive from them.
The pace of social change, driven by technical innovation, has accelerated to the point where each one of us has become our own ancestor. That is, we each become victims and beneficiaries of our inventions. Thus, we propose to translate the notion of ancestry from the domain of genealogical legacy to the context of technological development and innovation.
Through the new concept of Ancestry Thinking, this workshop will propose ideas to broaden our understanding of the technological ecosystem we live in. Our goal is to enable tech practitioners to build holistic narratives around their developments.