Radically Innovating in the Face of an Unknowable Future: A Workshop on Emerging with the New

A new world is emerging, packed full of radical and profound changes. COVID, war, global power struggles, expanding inequality, the environmental crisis with heat waves, shrinking rivers, more frequent storms, and potentially catastrophic changes to the ecosystems we all depend upon mean that we live in anything but a very stable moment. Within this current complex situation, the future is unknowable.

Additionally – when we work with radical forms of innovation, what will emerge is also outside of prediction.

BIG QUESTION:

Given these conjoined realities, the critical question today is how do we develop resilient strategies for meaningful innovation when neither the shape of these innovations nor the future can be truly known?

WORKSHOP:

This is a workshop designed specifically to introduce participants to a new approach and set of highly effective techniques for precisely these forms of emergent disruptive innovation.

This three-hour workshop is an immersive, hands-on, experiential deep dive exploring and developing new techniques to co-emerge with innovative futures rather than imagining we can plan and then execute into being what we demand of the future.

OUTCOME:

By the end of this workshop, participants will understand the why, the how, and the when of these unique techniques to begin to develop their own effective context-specific innovation ecosystem for disruptive change-making.

James Hall 3109
April 18, 2024 
2-5 pm
RSVP by April 12th

Open to all faculty and students.

For questions contact:
zarfsaz@rowan.edu

Workshop Poster

We are excited to offer two IMMaD funding opportunities! Both awards are available for fall 2023 and spring 2024 semesters.

Note: In order to streamline CCCA funding initiatives, four funding opportunities are combined into one application. Complete information can be found on the Edelman CCCA Faculty & Staff Resources page. All you need to do is apply once, and we will consider you for all applicable awards. If you want priority for a specific award, you can designate that on the form.)

Apply here. 
Budget template available here.

Application deadlines:

1. Review of applications begins immediately.
2. Deadline for priority consideration is Friday, September 18 at 5:00 pm.
3. Final submission for consideration is Monday, October 2 at 5:00 pm.

Please direct any questions to immad@rowan.edu 

• IMMaD Transformation Award (up to $500) for a transformative curricular experience or project that involve the students in cross-disciplinary and collaborative activities related to media, materials and design through real-world application. 

This year’s theme is “time” with emphasis on exploring ideas such as memory, history, evolution, legacy, relativity, or transformation.

• IMMaD Creative Community Award (up to $300) for projects that emphasizes real-world application of media, materials and design to build bridges between Rowan communities.

This year’s theme is “exchange” with emphasis on exploring ideas such as connectivity, global vs. local, symbiosis, and more.

Available for fall 2023 and spring 2024 semesters. All CCCA students/teams are eligible to apply. 
Application Deadline: 

• Review of applications begins immediately.
• Deadline for priority consideration is Monday, October 2, 2023 at 5:00 pm. 
• After October 2, 2023, we accept rolling applications until funds are expended.

How to Apply: 

Submit application here.

Please direct any questions to immad@rowan.edu

• IMMaD Creative Community Award (up to $300) for projects that emphasize real-world application of media, materials and design to build bridges between Rowan communities. This year’s theme is “exchange” with emphasis on exploring ideas such as connectivity, global vs. local, symbiosis, and more.

IMMaD as a social incubator is more than a bound space. It encourages you to define the shape of it based on your goals.

When we refer to "space," we use it in its broadest sense, encompassing the physical, virtual, mental, intellectual, personal, institutional, educational, spectacular, and any other dimension that comes to mind and is relevant to this expansive space.

At Rowan, we are often at Westby 105, at times in the field, and most commonly dwelling the metaverse. To Connect and Collaborate email us at immad@rowan.edu and stay tuned for news, open calls and workshops.

Director: Assistant Professor Mina Zarfsaz (zarfsaz@rowan.edu)

go.rowan.edu/immad