July Book Club: Stanford d.school on How to Design a Thriving Future

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Join Us Wednesday, July 24 at 4 p.m. ET!

Not everyone can attend design school at Stanford. But that doesn’t mean we all can’t learn from some of its best creative minds.

At the next PRINT Book Club, Stanford’s Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter will join Debbie Millman and Steven Heller to discuss their new book, Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, From the Stanford d.school.

Within the book, Doorley and Carter explore the intangible forces that prevent us from anticipating just how fantastically technology can get out of control—and what might be in store for us if we don’t start using fresh tools and tactics. Despite our best intentions, the most transformative innovations tend to have consequences we can’t always predict. From the effects of social media to the uncertainty of AI and the consequences of climate change, the outcomes of our creations ripple across our lives. Time and again, our seemingly ceaseless capacity to create rubs up against our limited capacity to understand our impact.

Assembling Tomorrow explores how to use readily accessible tools to mend the mistakes of the past and shape our future for the better. Mixed throughout are short pieces of speculative fiction that imagine the future as if it has already happened, and consider the past with a critical yet hopeful eye so that all of us—as designers of our own futures—can create a better world for generations to come.

About the Authors:

Scott Doorley is a writer, designer, and creative director at the Stanford d.school. He co-wrote Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration and teaches courses in design communication. His work has been featured in museums from San Jose to Helsinki, and in publications such as Architecture + Urbanism and The New York Times.

Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director of the Stanford d.school. She’s the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories With Data and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned multiple honors, including Fast Company Innovation and Core 77 design awards.

Don’t miss our conversation with Doorley and Carter, hosted by Debbie Millman and Steven Heller, on Wednesday, July 24, at 4 p.m. ET! Register for the live discussion here, and buy your copy of Assembling Tomorrow right here.