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9 November 2021 09:00-10:00

In society and as individuals we have lost our imaginative skills. We no longer imagine a utopian society, only dystopic social futures. Is there an imagination crisis? If so, why? And how can we overcome it and find new paths to social imagination? How can we quicken social and public imagination in our organisations and in society? And what can we do as individuals and as a collective?

Welcome to the launch of the Forum for Social Innovation Sweden’s new series, Social Innovation Foresight — that combines live events with short keynote videos. Social Innovation Foresight #1 will take us on a journey into social imagination. Together we will reflect and learn how we can find new paths to social imagination.

Sir Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL), will start with a keynote followed by a talk with Cassie Robinson, Strategic Designer now working with Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Roope Mokka, Co-founder of Demos Helsinki, a futurist and urbanist with focus on social transformations. 

The event is moderated by Johanna Koljonen, a well-known and popular Finnish-Swedish media analyst, author and experience designer with a background within broadcasting.

Time:
9 November, at 9 to 10 AM CET.

Place: The event is digital and will be broadcasted on our webpage https://socialinnovation.se/si/social-innovation-foresight

Social Innovation Foresight will be recorded and published on Forum for Social Innovation Sweden's Youtube channel. 

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    Speakers and moderator

    Geoff Mulgan
    Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London

    Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Over the last year Geoff has also been working with the UNDP, Demos Helsinki, the New Institute in Hamburg, and various national governments (including Bangladesh, Finland and UAE), as well as being a WEF Schwab Fellow. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation between 2011 and the end of 2019.

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    Cassie Robinson
    Strategic Designer now working with Joseph Rowntree Foundation

    Cassie Robinson is currently working with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on establishing their Emerging Futures programme. She is the Co-founder of the Point People, a Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and has a Policy Fellowship at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL. Cassie is also the founder of Stewarding Loss and Co-founder of Funder Ecosystems.

    Previously Cassie was Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund where she was responsible for Innovation, Policy and Practice across the Fund. In her time there she introduced 10 year grant-making, experimented with how to use funding as a way to develop policy, built a field of work around community-led collective imagination, seeded a new Foresight Observatory as shared infrastructure for civil society, demonstrated how to do emergent strategy, set up the Fund’s first partnership with a global business and set up the Digital Fund. She also introduced different ways of improving grantmaking practice.

    Cassie is a Nesta Creative Pioneer, sits on the Board of Organise HQ, and teaches on the MSc in Ecological Design and the Ecologies + Technologies programme at Schumacher College. She is on the Faculty of States of Change, and is one of the International Futures Forum Clan.

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    Roope Mokka
    Co-founder of Demos Helsinki

    Roope Mokka is one of two founders of Demos Helsinki, a futurist and urbanist with focus on social transformations. Roope has over 20 years of international experience as a strategic level advisor working with central and regional governments, cities, corporations, startups, NGOs and festivals. In Demos Helsinki Roope work to increase the impact of projects by helping to place them into major societal changes and trends. Before founding Demos Helsinki with Aleksi Neuvonen Roope worked as a design researcher, technology analyst, publisher, journalist, DJ, and promoter.

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    Johanna Koljonen
    Host

    Johanna Koljonen is the Finnish-Swedish media analyst, author and experience designer with a background within broadcasting. She gives lectures internationally on the future of broadcasting and the film industry and writes the annual Nostradamus Report for the Nordic Film Market and about narrative participatory design for VR, the theatre and live role-playing. Together with Sofia Mirjamsdotter she was awarded the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism for the initiative and twitter conversation #prataomdet that lead to a broad public debate on sexual consent and abuse in Sweden.

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    Organizers

    Forum for Social Innovation Sweden
    Malmö University