08.00 – 08.45
Registration and breakfast
08.50 – 09.00: WELCOME
HOST FOR THE DAY: Brendan Walker, ‘thrill engineer’, technology-inspired performance artist and TV and radio presenter
Sir John Sorrell, Chairman, London Design Festival
Professor Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
09.00 – 10.10: DESIGN / GLOBAL
Our speakers explore a world in which multinational corporations and the world wide web conspire to render idea, brand, product and service meaningful for the ‘global market’, while a strong current of opinion places the emphasis on the individual, the local and the personal. How can design contribute to a creative confluence of these apparently inimical trends?
SPEAKERS:
Anab Jain, Indian-born, London and Ahmedabad based designer and futurologist, founder of Superflux consultancy
Anders Byriel, CEO of Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat and chair of the Danish Design Council
Christine Losecaat, UK Trade & Investment Creative Advisor
Ellen Kiss, Director of Brazilian Association of design companies ABEDESIGN
Alberto Alessi, President of Alessi
CHAIR: Vicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design, Fashion, British Council
10.15 – 10.45: DESIGN / CONVERSATION #1
Thomas Heatherwick, multi-disciplinary designer, artist and architect, with Daniel Charny, curator, industrial designer and educator
CHAIR: Aidan Walker, Global Design Forum programme producer
10.45 – 11.00: TEA & COFFEE BREAK
During tea, coffee and lunch breaks our RRR – ‘Research, Record & Report’ – team of writers and editors will be moving amongst the delegates, asking questions and collating responses, ideas and suggestions about the Forum. The main headline points will be presented in draft form at the end of the day.
11.00 – 12.00: DESIGN / DIGITAL
The ‘digital space’ holds another apparent conflict for design, which just may turn out to be the starting point of a happy marriage. Digital technologies are our everyday tools, influencing every imaginable area of life, work and recreation – but it’s not yet apparent how their ubiquity supports the need for sustainable production and consumption. The panel explores how industry, politics and entertainment are changing in the digital age, and what this means for the ‘connected society’.
SPEAKERS:
Tom Dixon, designer and co-founder of Tom Dixon
Ben Terrett, Head of Design, Government Digital Services
Matthew D Siskin, designer and manager of Beyoncé’s social networking sites and website
Charles Leadbeater, innovation and creativity expert and author of participatory text on mass creativity, We-Think
CHAIR: Tom Cheshire, Associate Editor of WIRED magazine
12.05 – 13.15: DESIGN / BUSINESS
It wasn’t always like this; design’s inextricable relationship with business, in the UK at least, came much later than its affect on our cultural, political and social awareness. Rushing headlong into redefining the character of commerce itself, we muster evidence that although design is crucial to that redefinition, it continues to sharpen the competitive edge in business models old and new.
SPEAKERS:
Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, inventor and CEO of Sugru
Kathryn Firth, Chief of Design, London Legacy Development Corporation
Frank Stephenson, design director of McLaren Automotive
Mirkku Kullberg, CEO of Artek
Sarah Wyse, Head of Marketing Strategy for Coutts
CHAIR: Doug Richard, ‘serial entrepreneur’ and founder of the School for Startups
13.15 – 14.15 LUNCH
Including conversations with the RRR Team
14.15 – 15.15: DESIGN / INNOVATION
Closely allied with the business process, innovation in design means much more than another idea to make more money more quickly. This session gets to the heart of the complex relationship between companies and ideas, and examines how a business can benefit from blue sky thinking while keeping its metaphorical feet firmly on the ground.
SPEAKERS:
Monica Dalla Riva, European Design Lab Manager, 3M – the company that spends more than $1bn a year on R&D
Mat Hunter, Chief Design Officer at the Design Council
Richard Seymour, founding partner, product design consultancy Seymour Powell
Yves Béhar, Swiss-born, San Francisco and New York-based product designer and founder of fuseproject, and Chief Creative Officer of Jawbone
CHAIR: Deborah Dawton, Chief executive, Design Business Association
15.20 – 16.30: DESIGN / THINKING
For the last panel session of the day, we asked a disparate collection of design luminaries, all renowned for their individual and original take on design’s roots and responsibilities in the world at large, to give a first-hand demonstration of ‘design thinking’ by explaining… what they have been thinking.
SPEAKERS:
Morag Myerscough, designer, Studio Myerscough and Supergrouplondon
Paul Priestman, Co-founder, Priestmangoode multidisciplinary design group
John Thackara, creative thinker, author, founder and director of The Doors of Perception
Tom Hulme, Design Director of IDEO London
Dr Astro Teller, Director of New Projects, Google; Entrepreneur, author, scientist and expert in intelligent technology
16.30 -16.45: TEA & COFFEE BREAK
Including conversations with the RRR Team
16.45 – 17.15: DESIGN / CONVERSATION #2
Zaha Hadid, architect, in conversation with Joseph Grima, Editor of Domus
17.20 – 17.40 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
18.00-19. 30 DRINKS RECEPTION
PLEASE NOTE: This programme may be subject to change
