[Subscribe to the podcast: on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Music, RSS feed. Please give the show a rating and a review if you enjoy it!]
A couple of months ago I attended a fascinating talk from Kwame Ferreira at London’s Creative Mornings event, you can find the video of the talk via the link. I introduced myself following his talk and Kwame was kind enough to spare some time to meet with me and have a conversation for the podcast.
Kwame heads a global innovation design & engineering agency and incubator fund, particularly known for developing socially conscious innovation. They solve design and technology problems both large coporations, and also use their time and imagination to solve problems for communities throughout the world where they occasionally send team members in areas problems might need solving, like countries in Africa. As an example and something they are known for, they are helping Dutch company Fairphone design and build the operating system of their new smartphone.
While it is possible to find a couple of talks from Kwame online, he doesn’t tend to be very public and so I felt privileged that he gave his time for this excellent conversation about the future, design and technology. I hope you enjoy it!
Some of the information mentioned:
- KwameCorp / Kwamecorp on Twitter
- Impossible.com
- Andrew Logan (artist)
- Convent near Lisbon
- South of Portugal
- Burning Man
- Gift Economy
- Invisibilia Podcast: Our Computers, Ourselves
- Energy Canyon Theory
- Radiolab podcast episode referring to the Energy Canyon theory: Cellmates
- Michael Jordan
- Design & Innovation agency Fjord
- Accenture acquisition of Fjord
- Nokia
- Service design
- Google search
- Agile software development
- Silicon valley
- Roche Pharmaceuticals
- Samsung
- The VOID methodology – value oriented innovation design
- Hackathon
- Bond Bracelet
- Office manager bot algorithm working via Slack
- UI – User interface
- Google AI computer wins at a game of Go against a top human player
- AI – Artificial Intelligence
- Neural Network
- Architecture for learning
- Block chain (database)
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Cryptography
- Snapchat
- Snake video game
- Patagonia “Don’t Buy this Jacket” ad
- Fair Phone
