[Nettime-nl] Design New Futures! Engineering Creative Thinking (April 1) (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[arthur@partizanpublik.nl]

The University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Municipality and the Office 
for Social Engineering present:

Masters of Intervention
Social Engineering in the Amsterdam Metropole
 
Tuesday April 1st 2008
20.00, drinks afterwards
Shaffyzaal, Felix Meritis
 
Michael Shamiyeh vs Andrew Bullen
Design New Futures! Engineering Creative Thinking

Can we engineer a happy society?
A gentlemen's conversation on social engineering and the limits of 
social interventions.

Michael Shamiyeh teaches at Harvard. His book What People Want: 
Populism in Architecture and Design (2005) was an instant bestseller. 
Since then he is working on a radical scheme to introduce his design of 
thinking within McKinsey, the world's largest consultancy firm, to 
manufacture creative solutions when the solution is the problem.
 
Andrew Bullen is the director of the Media Guild, a cross-disciplinary 
incubator and centre for innovation for the Creative Media industries, 
based in the renovated Amsterdam East Docklands.

Reservation is necessary: maakbaarheid@partizanpublik.nl

Information on the Masters of Intervention series through:
http://www.partizanpublik.nl

This series is part of the ISS course Social Engineering in the 
Amsterdam Metropole.



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