--- title: Designing for the Next Billion Seconds page_type: course track: course_type: feature_img: /assets/images/2022-23/t-2/next_billion_seconds.jpg img_caption: faculty: - andres-colmenares --- {{ insert_banner() }} ## Syllabus Following a collective learning-by-doing approach, the students will explore, discuss, reflect, ideate and exchange perspectives, questions and thought experiments, while exercising their collective imaginations with long-term, critical and planetary mindsets to navigate the complexity, scale and speed of change of the multidimensional implications that the digital economy has in the environmental emergency. Using the Everything Manifesto as a meta-brief, participants will have the opportunity to learn how to use hypothetical questions to develop useful fiction stories about how everyday life can change in the next billion seconds, following methodologies where they can practice collective ideation, decision making and other collaborative approaches. ### When Wednesday 11th to Friday 13th of January 2023 ## Deliverables Students are requested to submit all the material requested by the faculty + their reflections about the seminar on the MDEF repository on GitLab https://mdef.iaac.net/ within a maximum of 1 week after the students’ submission deadline. - Digital posters and proto-videos - Reflection essays ## Faculty {{ insert_faculty() }}