Designer, futurist, director @OCADsLab + @DesignJamCA @OCAD U, teaching @ocadu_sfi & investigating #designthinking #systems #emergence #media. Opinions my own.
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📈 Join @kunal_chhabaria from @Walmart Connect at the Toronto Machine Learning Summit! Learn about ML-based recommendation systems in retail media. 📈
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This is mind-boggling. Ontarians are being told that one political staffer was able to take over the machinery of government and override civil servants to remove land from the cherished, protected Greenbelt, increasing the value of developers’ - who are key donors to the Conservative party - property by billions of dollars. And neither the minister nor the Premier knew?
Yeah, that is believable.
If this was true, it would be the most remarkable failure of leadership.
There are now three reasons for the Minister to resign:
1) violation of the Planning Act, in removing these lands without due process as established in regulation
2) the breach of public trust, in serving the interests of a handful of developers instead of the public
3) lying about doing so
theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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From a historical-futures perspective the events of 2023 dramatically fulfill the dire models of structural demographics and other methods unpopular in speculative #foresight. But man they were spot on. Give Turchin, Howe, even Spengler some credit.
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At the #report launching event of #Uzbekistan 🍃 transition #foresight and how the government can benefit from it. Thanks for the invite @MatildaDimovska and @UNDP_Uzbekistan. I believe this start will lead to huge positive impacts in the country.
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Eddie Segel & I's work on Narrative Visualization won an #ieeevis InfoVis 10 Year Test-of-Time Award. We are humbled and honored, and also shell-shocked by the speed of time's arrow (and just about everything else these days). Here is our decade-old paper: idl.cs.washington.edu/papers…
ALT Screenshot of the narrative visualization "Budget Forecasts, Compared With Reality", from the New York Times, Feb 2, 2010.
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"This, too, is part of whiteness: the belief that to be white is to be non-racial. That to live white in America somehow elevates us out of a racial experience. We think we are immune and exempt. Race is therefore about being Black or brown, not white."aapf.org/theforum-targeted-t…
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We’re responding to an outage in the west end of the city, affecting customers in and around the following approximate boundaries: Davenport Rd. south to The Queensway and Runnymede Rd. east to Lansdowne Ave. Crews have been dispatched. We appreciate your patience.
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Why are we so fixated on pat solutions for puzzling problems? mintzberg.org/blog/playful-s…
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Just a few days left to provide your input to our Butterfield Park Revitalization Survey! Tell us what functions of the park are most important to you by July 10. buff.ly/38jnmcD
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The Color of Surveillance is a consistently brilliant, insightful and important gathering - year on year. This time you can hear from @iajunwa talking about worker surveillance - attend if you can! (is there a livestream again, @alvarombedoya?) eventbrite.com/e/the-color-o…
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GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS! It's "Black Mirror Writers' Room" with the first cohort of Responsible Computing Fellows! Stay tuned for some awesome examples of speculative ethics. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, check this out: tinyurl.com/blackmirrorwrite… ) #ResponsibleCS
ALT Futurama meme: NOT SURE IF TECH ETHICS CLASS OR AN EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR
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Did you enjoy your experience at the Toronto Global Goals Jam this past weekend? Want to continue working on your project? Join @cooperathon for the largest open innovation competition in Canada. Use promo code OntarioGO for 50% OFF. ow.ly/E44750wn0hn #iwbTO #cooperathon19
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Did you know that in 2017 we embarked on a multi-year project that sought to identify some of the barriers faced by #women #entrepreneurs? Check out our 5 key findings. bit.ly/2lIlx5g
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Nesta is exploring participatory futures techniques that systematically engage people to imagine and create more sustainable, inclusive futures.
nesta.org.uk/project/partici… – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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There appears to some misunderstanding of what housing’s “missing middle” is. It’s the gap between tall and sprawl, excluding mid-rise. Plexes (~3 to 6) and short (~<6-storey) apartment buildings. Human-scaled, neighbourhood-oriented housing for a wider variety of people, needs.
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Innovation requires trade-offs.
With knowledge, trade off becomes choices. We can do it together in community @mullinsean ED of @BrookfieldIIE #BIIETALKS #FutureofWork
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AI systems should be accountable, explainable, and unbiased, says EU theverge.com/2019/4/8/183001…
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Good to see this at municipal level in #Toronto - the Quayside project if anything has awoken us to fact we are already living in a city of sensors & data. Re-consideration of public policy in light of new technologies has always been part of governance. thestar.com/news/gta/2019/02…
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It's here! Two years in the making – a product of the collective wisdom & creative talents of over 50 social assistant recipients, caseworkers, artists & designers. Free copies available for Toronto-based community organizations: uhnopenlab.ca/project/handbo…
