WORLDBUILDING: FEMINIST FUTURES
Date: March 10, 2017
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Mi Centro
553 S Clarence St, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Instructors: Paisley Smith & Caitlin Conlen
This workshop is about harnessing the power of collaborative imagination. Participants use a set of design-thinking tools called world-building in order to create their own feminist future. Each participant draws from their own experiences to enrich this new world. Once the parameters have been established, participants con...
WORLDBUILDING: FEMINIST FUTURES
Date: March 10, 2017
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Mi Centro
553 S Clarence St, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Instructors: Paisley Smith & Caitlin Conlen
This workshop is about harnessing the power of collaborative imagination. Participants use a set of design-thinking tools called world-building in order to create their own feminist future. Each participant draws from their own experiences to enrich this new world. Once the parameters have been established, participants construct artifacts from the world they have invented. Using a wide variety of materials from felt to plasticine, the stories of the future come to life.
Paisley Smith is a Canadian virtual reality creator and documentary filmmaker who roots her work in the design thinking process of world building. She studied World Building at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the newly developed World Building Media Lab, founded by production designer and futurist Alex McDowell.
Caitlin Conlen is a graphic designer, artist and recent graduate from ArtCenter College of Design. She works for an R&D studio that focuses on designing a better future for the medical industry. Caitlin has used world building techniques to facilitate language and communication for kids with Autism in her previous career as a behavior therapist and is interested in the power of creative practices as a tool for communication and innovation.