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…

UNITED DREAMS OF EUROPE

Enric Bas, Director of Futurlab, has been Invited by Prof. Ulrich Reinhardt, Scientific Head of the Foundation for the Future of the British American Tobbaco (Hamburg, Germany) to participate as expert in a new project on the future of Europe called “United Dreams of Europe”. Prof.…

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…

JOINT VENTURE: MORILLAS BRAND DESIGN + FUTURLAB

Nike, Schweppes, Lays, Spanair, Unnim, eDreams, Osborne, Bimbo, Revlon, Nescafe, Nenuco, San Miguel, Iberostar… these are some of the clients of Morillas Brand Design, a prestigious and internationally active spanish consulting company. Morillas BD and Futurlab lead the Executive Master on Strategic Innovation that IED-Istituto Europeo…

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)…

JUHA KASKINEN (FFRC) VISITS FUTURLAB

Juha Kaskinen, Director of FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center, visited us at the University of Alicante with the aim of strengthening institutional relationships with Futurlab and having a kick-off meeting to discuss with Enric Bas (Director of Futurlab) and Jesus Navarro (Director of Corporate Development. AIDIMA) about…

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…