@JuliSikorska
I am a researcher and designer translating the uncertainty of climate change into tangible experiences.
I often lead design processes and consult on product strategy and design with organizations committed to serve people and the planet alike.
Serious projects require play, and I take play very seriously. On each project, I like to first gather the right playteam, and set up our playground.
Big Questions (and their cases)
1 – How can we think beyond the apocalypse? (Interaction20)
2 – How can we prototype alternative worlds? (BarGeld)
3 – How do we get more comfortable with the uncertainty of climate change? (Climate KIC)
4 – How can we play inside the future of my neighborhood? (Urban Heat Island Living)
5 –How do you give people permission to play? (Party in the North Pole)
6 – How do you connect two divergent playgrounds (of product teams)? (Village Data Analytics)
Playtime Suggestions (and their sources)
– Joshua Noble & Simone Rebaudengo’s Everything is Someone, a collection of (mundane) future fables
– B-Corps and the zebras that fix what unicorns broke, e.g., I use and highly recommend Tomorrow (banking), Lemonade (insurance), Polarstern (electricity), and Mandalah (service design, whom I’ve worked with)
– Eric Molinsky's Imaginary Worlds podcast
– Stone Soup: the original playground, bank of inspiration and source of emotional sanity. Coming to a location near you soon.
– Anab Jain's call for a More-Than-Human Politics
– Priya Parker's Art of Gathering, because the way we gather matters more than anything
– Jan Chipchase’ Hidden in Plain Sight, about the beauty and disgust in ethnographic research