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Tuesday, July 13 • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Keynote - World Building: Prototyping the Future to Provoke Change

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Our visions of the future are shaped by representations in popular media – books, movies, TV and video games. In this session, world building pioneer Alex McDowell, USC professor and creative director of Experimental Design (designer of iconic movies such as Minority Report), and Alan Gershenfeld, Co-Founder of E-Line Media (Never Alone, Beyond Blue) will explore how the practice of world building can create research grounded, visual stories that inspire aspirational but achievable futures.
Speakers
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Susanna Pollack

President, Games for Change
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Alan Gershenfeld

Co-Founder / President, E-Line Media
Alan is Co-Founder / President of E-Line Media, a publisher of commercial social impact video games including Never Alone, Beyond Blue and Gamestar Mechanic.  Prior to E-Line, Alan was CEO of netomat, SVP of Activision Studios where he supervised Civilization: Call to Power, Asteroids... Read More →
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Alex McDowell

Creative Director, Experimental Design
Creative director, production designer, professor, world builder / British, in US since 1986 / co-founder, creative director, Experimental Design / director, World Building Institute and USC World Building Media Lab / Professor of Cinematic Practice, USC School of Cinematic Arts... Read More →

Tuesday July 13, 2021 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
Festival
  Civics & Social Issues, Keynote