{"id":5367,"date":"2020-12-08T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myspeaker.se\/profiles\/john-thackara\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T08:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T08:12:02","slug":"john-thackara","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/myspeaker.se\/en\/international-speakers\/john-thackara\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thackara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"text-block_21b97555529f90f7cdcf47f51d7b5e41\" class=\"block-text block-text--columns-one lg:my-20 my-10\">\n      <div class=\"block-text__body\">\n      <p>With a focus on social, ecological and relational design, John has curated place-based xskool workshops in 20 countries. He studied philosophy before working for ten years as a book publisher and magazine editor. He was the first Director (1993-99) of the Netherlands Design Institute. He is a senior fellow at the Royal College of Art and Visiting Professor at School of Visual Arts in New York and at Pontio Innovation in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent book &#8216;How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow&#8217;s World Today&#8217; has just been published in China where, since 2019, he is a Visiting Professor at Tongji University with a focus on urban-rural reconnection. John travels the world looking for real-world but below-the-radar examples of what a sustainable future can be like. He writes about these stories online, and in books.<\/p>\n<p>In his presentations John tells how AI can enable relationships that reconnect man and nature and help us accelerate the transition to ecological agriculture. He shows how AI can be a relocalisation engine, and also function as a convivial technology that enables diverse actors to work together on the many challenges, we all face. His talk is filled with compelling real-world stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Popular topics: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>REWILDING A.I.: Machine Learning, Convivial Tech and Sustainability<\/li>\n<li>Creativity and Social Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Growing the Bio City<\/li>\n<li>Pathways to a Living Economy<\/li>\n<li>Five Per Cent Health<\/li>\n<li>Design in the Light of Dark Energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. 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