Madrid Design Net
"Designing the Future Society"

Date and Time

May 19, 2010 19:30 - 21:30

Venue

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Teatro Fernando de Rojas, 2º planta, C/ Alcalá, 42

Title

"Designing the Future Society"

Presenters

Ignacio Niño (CEO of Madrid Global)
Takayuki Kubo (The Mori Memorial Foundation-Tokio)
Carlos Barrabés (Experto en Estrategia Internacional. Fundador de barrabes.biz)
Clive van Heerden (Director señor de Design-Led Innovation)

Institute for Urban Strategies at the Mori Memorial Foundation has been invited to the inauguration ceremony for the Madrid Design Net, which investigates the future of Madrid.
“Madrid Design Net” is an interactive platform designed to generate ideas for global city. The Office of Strategy and International Action, Madrid Global, responsible for the participation of the city of Madrid in the Shanghai World Expo, presented at the Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid Design Net project. During the ceremony, six international universities (Moscow, Jakarta, London, Mexico, Milan, Tongji) explained their proposals for the city of Madrid. The first conference of the Observation of the Future was held here.
Under the title “Designing the Future Society,” Ignacio Niño, general coordinator of Global Madrid, Clive Van Heerden, creative director of Philips Design Probes, Takayuki Kubo, a senior fellow at The Mori Memorial Foundation, and Carlos Barrabés, expert in international strategy and founder of barrabes.biz, have reflected on the lifestyle scenarios for 2030, new forms of social interaction in future urban development and the future of the Spanish capital.

Madrid Design Net is an initiative launched by the Spanish Institute of Design (IED) Madrid as a network 'on line' www.madriddesignnet.com , formed by young artists from around the world to innovate and create ideas and visions about the city. In the first project to launch Madrid Design Net involved about a thousand students from 17 cities around the world, among which are Madrid, Moscow, Quito, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Bogota, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Milan , Rome, Torino, Dalian, and Shanghai.
Madrid Design Net posed to participants five macro-conceptual areas, on which to generate ideas: Urban Madrid, Cultural Madrid, Madrid Innovation and Technology, Sustainable Madrid, and Madrid Slow Project. The themes proposed were investigated until the 21st of May. It will develop 50 'workshops' experimental worldwide, 30 of them in Madrid.
Madrid is fitted with four capsules, laboratory capacity for 15 students who go to work all week at various workshops over the city and is located in Cuesta de Moyano, Plaza del Reina Sofia, the confluence of the Calle de las Huertas and the Paseo del Prado, and the Palacio de Altamira FDI.
This research effort will culminate in a sample in 15 October in the pavilion at Expo Madrid where, under the title Madrid Design Net explains the best ideas emerge.

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