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PRESENTATION OF FLUX·3D METHODOLOGY @ AALTO UNIVERSITY

Last week Enric Bas and Mario Guilló introduced FLUX·3D methodology at the Design Factory, one of the most emblematic spaces in Aalto University, an international reference in the fields of Design, Innovation and collaboration between University and Enterprise. FLUX·3D workshops were attended by professors and students…

FUTURES THINKING & INNOVATION COURSE @ UA (2nd ED.)

This week starts the 2nd Edition of the “Futures Thinking and Innovation”, taught by Enric Bas and Mario Guilló, within the International Business Program of the School of Economics. The main aim of this course (taught in English language) and will last a complete semester (February…

FUTURLAB @ VALENCIA. INTERNATIONAL EVENT ON THE FUTURE OF HOME

Last week, Enric Bas (Director of Futurlab) was pleased to open (as guest speaker) the 2nd International Week, an international conference on architecture, design and technology, organized by CEU Cardenal Herrera University (Valencia). This event, whose leitmotiv was “iHome, from the modern house to the future…

COOLHUNTING BY DIANA CARRIÇO @ UA

During the last week Diana V. Carriço (CEO in Fashioncoolhunter.com and Made in Youthland), visited University of Alicante, where a international workshop on Identification and Analysis of Trends in Fashion was held. During three weeks, our students have worked in 4 intensive sessions for Pikolinos, a…

FUTURLAB @ SWITZERLAND.PARTICIPATORY FORESIGHT CONGRESS

From Sept. 16th to 19th will take place in Winterthur (Switzerland) the International Congress “Participatory Foresight for Smarter Futures – From Design to Impact”, organized by the International Foresight Academy (IFA), being represented the main foresight research centers worldwide. Enric Bas and Mario Guilló will participate…

NEW FORESIGHT PUBLICATION COORDINATED BY TOMAS MIKLOS

Enric Bas and Mario Guilló have been invited to participate in the international publication “El Futuro a Debate. Visiones y Concreciones Prospectivas”, edited in spanish language by Thomas Miklos (Director of INAE – National Institute of Consultancy, Mexico). It is a great honor to participate in…

EVENTS&MUSIC BY GYM – FUTURLAB

On July 1st started Escuela de calor 2013, a series of profesional workshops organized by GYM-Futurlab. The workshop (EVENTS&MUSIC) brought students and professionals interested in the field of music management, which is today, fertile ground for the sponsorship and corporate communications associated to public relations and…

FUTURLAB VISITS THE AALTO LEARNING HUBS

The AALTO LEARNING HUBS (ALU) are an initiative of Aalto University for trying to boost underused spaces within Aalto University buildings. Valerya Gryada, Project Manager at Aalto Hub Töölö and ALU responsible accompanied us on our visit explaining us how they have managed to revitalize the…

FUTURLAB VISITS LA AALTO DESIGN FACTORY

The Aalto Design Factory (ADF) is a global pioneer space, which aims to change the existing paradigm in the relationship between companies and university, providing a collaborative environment in constant development for students, researchers and professionals. Thus, the ADF makes available to students all means so…

FUTURLAB VISITS START UP SAUNA

The Start Up Sauna (formerly Aalto Venture Garage), has become one of the main talent hubs within the Aalto University. This business accelerator and incubator, with all its programs and activities, has managed to generate a blooming startup ecosystem and a pay-it-forward culture into the region,…

FUTURLAB VISITS AALTO UNIVERSITY

Today we started our visit to the Aalto University (Finland), one of the main references in Innovation worldwide. The purpose of this visit, organized by Riina Subra (Foresight & Advocacy Manager at Aalto University), is to get familiar with the Innovation Ecosystem surrounding this university. The…

INNODAY: DESIGNING OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

Innovation is not a wild flower that spontaneusly grow in the country. Innovation needs to be seeded, feeded and stimulated; and has to be based on a strong concept and philosophy to rely on. Designing OIEs (both at conceptual, structural and spatial levels) is a key…

COMMUNICATION IN FASHION INDUSTRY

Diana Carriço (Lisbon, POR), designer, blogger, coolhunter, author and CEO in fashioncoolhunter.com and Made in Youthland, a brand new fashion company commited with emerging trends. She came to Alicante as Professor of the Professional Workshop on Fashion Communication that took place in May 3rd and 4th.…

IKEA: THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF YOUR HOME

Miguel Madariaga, Creative Director of *S,C,P,F,… (the advertising company behind this slogan), has created much of the most popular spanish ads in the last years, working form leading companies like BMW, JEEP, VODAFONE, TOYS R US, IKEA, J&B o BANCO DE SABADELL. Miguel has been the…

FUTURES THINKING & INNOVATION COURSE @ UA

Enric Bas and Mario Guiló, of FUTURLAB, will teach the CECLEC course “Futures Thinking and Innovation”, within the International Business Program of the School of Economics. The main aim of this course, that will be taught in english language and will last a complete semester (january…

RIINA SUBRA (AALTO UNIVERSITY) VISITS FUTURLAB

Riina Subra, Foresight and Advocacy Manager of the Aalto University (Finland), which is considered the “European Silicon Valley” (because of Microsoft, Nokia,…) came to visit us in Alicante. The main aim was to strength institutional links and to move forward in the draft pilot project FLUX-3D,…

FARID TABARKI TEACHING @GYM FUTURLAB

One of the main european coolhunters, Farid Tabarki (CEO-Studio Zeitgeist. Holland), has been teaching the GYM´s Professinal Workshop on Coolhunting and Trend Analysis. Farid, who was a long-time researcher for the well-known consultant company on trends Signs of The Times, recently was leading the MTV weekly…

FUTURLAB @ AALTO: THE EUROPEAN SILICON VALLEY

As guests of Riina Subra, the Foresight Manager of Aalto Impact, Mario Guillo and Enric Bas were visiting the Aalto University Campus, specially conceived and designed to become the outstanding european centerpoint of innovation and entrepeneurship. A place were MICROSOFT and NOKIA have made investments by…

DESIGNING SOCIETY THROUGH THINKING: OUR VISIT TO U. OF HELSINKI

In recent decades, Finland has invested large amounts of resources and efforts in building its education system, which is a reference worldwide and is an essential pillar for economic, technological and social development. But far from satisfied with the achievements so far, Finnish universities continue to…

THINK TANK 20+20: FUTURES OF FUTURE RESEARCH

The FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center was founded on 1992, and soon it became a worldwide reference both in Futures Studies and on Innovation (FFRC is a key actor -the one leading with research- of the Finnish National System of Innovation) because its succesful outcomes and wide…

ENRIC BAS, KEYNOTE SPEAKER IN THE TURKU SCIENCE PARK

Electrocity, the Turku Science Park, was where the University of Turku adressed the 14th Annual Congress of the FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center wich started on June 6th. The Director of Futurlab, Enric Bas, acted as Keynote Speaker on Wednesday, 7th, with a speech entitled “Creative Futures:…

YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR SUCCESS

Ten years after winning the TELEFONICA FOUNDATION 1st National Prize to Student’s Internet Entrepeneurship, with “REEFVIEWS-the electronic journal on communication and the future” (an initiative of the people leading FUTURLAB and our colleague and friend Mar Iglesias with the support of the Faculty of Economics of…

FEDERICO MAYOR ZARAGOZA JOINS FUTURLAB

The former Minister of Education and General Director of UNESCO, and current President of the Foundation for a Peace Culture, will introduce, as writer of the prologue and guest speaker, the official presentation of the trilogy “Foresight and Innovation; a tribute to Emilio Fontela and Jesús…

FUTURLAB @ THE STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COMPETITIVENESS OF ALICANTE CITY

Spain, and concretely the Eastern part of the country, is devastated by the current economic crisis. Despite of having a long-term tradition of succesful entrepeneurship, Alicante city and it´s metropolitan area, is hardly suffering the consequences of an historical and structural lack of futures and strategic…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 3

Since 2008 FUTURLAB and the FOUNDATION OF FUTURES STUDIES (B.A.T. Germany) are partners and use to work in joint projects. The participation of Enric Bas, as guest analyst, expert and co-author, in the books “Futures Expectations For Europe” and “United Dreams of Europe” (prologued by Jose…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 2

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, of FUTURLAB, meet Anne Schubring (Project Manager) and Till Huber (Corporate Communication) of STURM UND DRANG- Innovation Insights, one of the leading european consultant companies in Business Intelligence 2.0 (with clients like AUDI, BMW, DANONE, NESTLE, ALLIANZ, MCDONALD’S) on May, 4th.…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 1

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, from FUTURLAB, were invited to the Open Party & Exhibition at TRENDONE (Hamburg, Germany) held on May, 3rd in order to celebrate the Award “Land der Ideen”, supported by Deustche Bank, they recently won. During the event, some TrendLabs, Innovation Workshops…

THE CONSUMER OF THE FUTURE

The managing team of FUTURLAB will join the meeting of the GOR (German Operational Reserch) Society working group on Forecasting Methods, which will take place during May, 3rd and 4th at the BDF-Beiersdorf (the pharmaceutical multinational leading company producing) Headquarters in Hamburg (Germany). The main topic…

JOIN THE INTEGRATED VIA TWITTER

Miguel Madariaga, Creative Director of *S.C.P.F. Madrid, responsible of advertising campaigns for Amnesty International, Jeep, Vodafone, Toys R Us, Ikea, BMW or Banco de Sabadell, and winner of outsanding ad festivals (New York Festival, Cannes, El Sol, CDC, One Show, D&AD,..) will be working with “the…

HERE COME THE INTEGRATED

After the Friday´s first session at UA, where the Director of FUTURLAB (Enric Bas) and the Manager of INTEGRATED (Juanfran Vaquero, http://www.gym.futurlab.es/integrated/) were guest speakers, we moved to the UA main Site at the Alicante city center on Satursday. There (and also at the Canalejas Park!!)…

INTEGRATED IDEAS (PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP ON CREATIVITY)

In a few weeks, it is expected the 1st edition of INTEGRATED-Professional Workshop on Integrated-ideas Generation will take place at the University of Alicante, organized by FUTURLAB. This is the first of a serie of upcoming Pro·Workshops, which will be progressively available in GYM, our educational…

THE FINNISH CONNECTION (WELCOME ANNA!)

Last December, we enjoyed the visit of our beloved friend Anna Kirveennummi, Project Manager of FFRC. Anna came for a meeting to explore the possibility of an institutional agreement for further joint research activities on Social Innovation and Creative Economy. The meeting took place in Valencia,…

SOSTENUTO: EXPLORING THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF CULTURE

SOSTENUTO is a European research project to explore the feedback relationships between culture, social innovation and economic innovation in time (as a process). This is currently one of the FUTURLAB research mainlines, thanks to our joint work with ECONCULT, the research unit on Cultural Economics of…

INNOHABITAT: FUTURES OF BUIT ENVIRONMENT

As you may know, the one-time succesful economic activity of Construction (one of the key productive-sectors of the spanish economy during the last five decades) is trying to deal with the harder structural crisis ever. FUTURLAB, in order to stimulate dialogue, exchange experiences and to explore…

TEACHING CREATIVE FUTURES @ HAAGA HELIA

During past November, Enric Bas was teaching Creative Futures to students coming both from graduate (International Business Management) and posgraduate (MBA) programs at Haaga Helia University (Helsinki, Finland). He was invited as Visiting Professor by Prof. Anita Lehtinen-Toivola, and the responsables of those programs: Maria Jakubik…

FROM AKRA-LEUKA TO ALC. REFORMULATING ALICANTE AS DETINATION BRAND

FUTURLAB, together with the Chamber of Commerce of Alicante and Brandflight, an international consulting company based in Sweden, Denmark and Germany, lead a Workshop on Creative Futures titled “BRANDOLOGY”. The aim of this workshop was to explore future alternatives for rebranding Alicante as a tourist product.…

EUROPE ENDLESS

What is Europe? And how do Europeans view their continent? Is Europe merely a supranational institution where everything is all about politics? Can we reduce it to a European Football Cup every 4 years? Or an annual Eurovision Song Contest? Is it just about laws and…

TEARING DOWN THE WALL TO THE FUTURE (FUTURLAB @ BERLIN!!!)

Futurlab staff will participate at the International Conference “Planning Research for the Future?” that will be held at CCD-Center for Cluster Development (Freie Universität Berlin-Germany) from October 13th to 15th. Creativity will be one of the main axes considered in the event to build up futures…

THE WILD, THE WEAK & THE I-KNOW PROJECT (7FP)

The Director of Futurlab, Enric Bas, has been invited as guest speaker to the I-Know (European Commission FP7) Final Conference: “Taming the Wild & Listening to the Weak. Towards a Strategic Issue Management System for Science, Technology and Innovation” that will be held in Brussels (Belgium)…

FAHRENHEIT212: CREATIVE FUTURES & INNOVATIVE IDEAS

The main challenges we must face in the future are global. Taking into account this idea FUTURLAB is going to launch FAHRENHEIT212, an international think tank of students of various nationalities that will share reflections on their own future visions, trying to provide new insights on…

ONE WEEK WORKSHOP ON INNOVATION @ IED-MASTER

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, from Futurlab, taught an intensive workshop on Foresight and Innovation to the selected international crowd of students coming from two of the Masters Programs on Design and Innovation at IED-Madrid (Master of Communication Design Labs and Master of Strategic Design Labs).…

FUTURLAB LECTURES AT DEUSTO UNIVERSITY

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, were the guest speakers (with the following conferences: “Foresight and Innovation: designing future” and “Genius Loci-: the city as a creative and innovative,” respectively) in the IV Summer Course of the University of Deusto “Strategic Planning of Cities and Urban Governance:…

INNOHABITAT: FUTURES OF CONSTRUCTION

In December 2009 FUTURLAB organized INNODAY, I International Workshop on Foresight and Innovation Culture. The event, attended by renowned experts invited from 6 different countries, was proposed as the first of a series of sectoral meetings aimed to raise awareness -through case studies of international prestige-…

EFP-MEETING EUROPEAN FORESIGHT PLATFORM @ VIENA

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, from Futurlab, were at the 7th FP-EC project meeting of the EFP (European Foresight Platform) titled “Foresight in public research organizations”, organized by the Austrian Institute of Technology and held June 7th and 8th, at French Embassy in Vienna/Institut Français de…