Category: creative futures

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 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…

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,…

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.…

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…

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…

NEW METHODOLOGY DESIGNED BY FUTURLAB

One year after the success of the Madrid Design Network project, IED-Istituto Europeo di Design at Madrid, starts a new and even more ambitious project: Mexico Design Network. One of the prior arrangements is the design of and ad-hoc methodology flexible enough to be used by…

REIVENTING MUSIC INDUSTRY-II (OFF)

The successful results of the Creative Capsule leaded by JuanFran Vaquero, within the Futurlab Project “Futures for the Music Industry; the case of Subterfuge Records” has been presented at the University of Alicante in a one-day seminar to Carlos Galan, owner and C.E.O. of Subterfuge Records…

COOLHUNTING 2.0: BEYOND TRENDS

For many years, different media have pressented the coolhunters as an emerging professional profile who bases their work on detecting and analyzing consumer trends. In an effort to clarify certain aspects of the real work of coolhunter, FUTURLAB has worked together with Information Daily to prepare…

FORTHCOMING TRILOGY IN THE MEMORY OF EMILIO FONTELA

A Lunch at the Casino de Madrid, with Rafaela Fontela (widow of Prof. Fontela), Marcos de Miguel (Director of P&V Editorial), Jose Luis Ripoll (President Vodafone Foudation) and Jesús Moneo (Director Spanish Chapter Club of Rome) has been the starting point to prepare the presentation of…

REIVENTING MUSIC INDUSTRY-I (ON)

What next with music business? It´s the end of the world as we know it? (as R.E.M. sang). FUTURLAB and SUBTERFUGE RECORDS, the main indie label in Spain, within the next two months will carry on with this joint venture to explore future scenarios for the…

SOULSIGHT VS ENRIC BAS

More than an interview, a conversation between the Director of Futurlab and Soulsight, a consultancy which has been pioneer in design thinking. For sure a cosmopolitan, innovative, fresh and rigorous firm and maybe one of the leading and most influential in design in Spain. The result…

FORESIGHT+DESIGN FOR SMES

Claiming the strategic value that foresight and design can bring to SMEs has been one of the main objectives of FUTURLAB since its inception. Under this philosophy is presented PRODESIGNLAB, an online platform funded by IMPIVA and developed jointly by the IDF-Institute of Design and Manufacturing…

INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSITY CHAIR OF ADVANCED TERTIARY

Enric Bas, Director of Futurlab was the Keynote Speaker, with a speech on Foresight and Inovation, in the ceremony of presentation of the Chair jointly created by the University of Alicante and CGCE (the regional association of consultancy firms). This first act, which took place at…

TEACHING STRATEGIC THINKING TO THE FINNS

Finland is a well known world leading reference in education, innovation and social equality. One of the more active universities of Finland, the Haaga-Helia University, decided to move some of its students from Helsinki to Alicante for a one-week intensive course on Strategic Change Leadership. It…

ROOKIE-II (KNOWING THE FINNISH NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM, 2ND PART)

For second consecutive year, the management team of Futurlab, with the financing help of the Valencia Regional Government, visits Finland to learn their succesful national system of innovation. During two months, we have been working at FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center (the research leg of the FIS)…

FUTURES FOR MADRID. FUTURLAB+IED IN EXPO SHANGAI-2010

The city council of Madrid will have its own pavillion at Shangai 2010. To provide fresh contents for the pavillion, and under the appointment of IED, a real ambitious Project has been arranged: the Madrid Design Network. Futurlab was asked to conceive and drive an specific…

DDI INTERVIEW ON DESIGN AND INNOVATION

Marcelo Leslabay, one of the most influent spanish experts in design, interviews Enric Bas, the Director of futurlab, for the DDI (Government Agency for the Development of Design and Innovation. Ministry of Science and Innovation). At the interview Marcelo and Enric discuss about the dialectic relationship…