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What does it mean to design in the time of robots? For design directors Danny DeRuntz (IDEO) and Nathan Hass (Upstatement), the technological advancements of the last few years are hard to ignore — and they’re also raising questions about the part technology plays in creative roles. The two recently met for the first time to chat about how they’re using AI, balancing hype and realism when it comes to emerging technology, and why human creativity is still vital to great storytelling. Read the full article below and watch this space for more stories about how the kyu Collective is utilizing AI to its fullest potential. https://lnkd.in/eKCwZk-X #AI #Design #Creativity

Wednesday, June 26 was the UK’s hottest day of 2024 so far. Perfect timing for the kyu House pop-up for London Climate Action Week! Last week, kyu Collective companies including IDEO, Lexington, Gehl - Making Cities for People, and others hosted dynamic sessions that connected attendees and inspired them to create real, impactful change in the climate and health spaces. Want to know more about what you missed? 🌍 “What would a healthcare system look like if you kept human and planetary health in balance?” asked IDEO’s Sergio Fregoni and Matthew Higham. IDEO created a board game to help participants explore what the world could look like in 2044.  🏥 How can patients drive climate-positive outcomes? Lexington directors Felicity Haslehurst and Alison Woodhouse unveiled research driving home how vital patient engagement truly is. Health shouldn’t be siloed but considered by every government department and across all policies. 💡 Where can we be more impactful in the climate x health space? Gehl - Making Cities for People’s Jeff Risom and Rebecca Morley talked air quality activism and the importance of positive messaging. “Children think they can die from climate change,” said Morley. “We should also talk about the solutions. Later in the week, SYPartners partnered with Elevation Barn to bring together an evening of elevating impact at Home House, and ATÖLYE x Metabolic, hosted a session spotlighting actionable, investable strategies to mobilize the critical funding necessary for a sustainable future. Ultimately, when tackling massive, global issues, one of the ways we can learn and relate to each other is through the art of play — and we certainly had plenty of fun at this iteration of kyu House. 🗓️ What’s coming up next for kyu House? 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 #ClimateWeekNYC 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫. Watch this space for exciting announcements about our programming and guests! 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘠𝘊 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥? Sign up for our mailing list at: https://lnkd.in/e5FU7zZY.  📸 : Aurelia Bergs ** 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 4 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘠𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 #LCAW2024 #LondonClimateActionWeek #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC

Tomorrow is the day! 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆? kyu House at London Climate Action Week is the place to explore 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐱 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞. Join sessions by IDEO and Lexington, then stay for an evening of drinks, bites, music and interactivity with your fellow climate and health experts, including Dr Shaun Danquah, Rebecca Morley, and Gehl - Making Cities for People's Jeff Risom. We’ve got a limited number of spaces left, so 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 for all of our events at: https://lnkd.in/eTGgEYn7 IDEO Lexington Gehl - Making Cities for People ATÖLYE SYPartners Kepler Kite Insights #LCAW2024 #LondonClimateActionWeek #kyuhouse

We’re one week away from kyu House at London Climate Action Week  — and we’ve got some exciting guests joining the fun at IDEO's Herbal House space. Join Rebecca Morley (Founder & CEO, Rebecca Morley Consulting), Dr Shaun Danquah (Founder, Centric Community Research), and Sophie Lambin 🪁 (Kite Insights), along with Gehl - Making Cities for People's Chief Innovation Officer Jeff Risom at our Evening Reception.  𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/ePsBVTet Spots are going fast! Register for all of our kyu House pop-up sessions at https://lnkd.in/eTGgEYn7. IDEO Lexington Gehl - Making Cities for People ATÖLYE SYPartners Kepler Kite Insights #LCAW2024 #LondonClimateActionWeek #kyuhouse

🌎 The kyu Collective is made up of 20+ diverse and distinct member companies — but how do you connect thousands of individuals across disciplines, cultures, and time zones? Our unique creative intelligence platform 𝐤𝐲𝐮 𝐎𝐒 does just that. 🤝 It offers users insights into each other’s client work, projects, skills, passions, events, and stories, making it the collective’s largest collaborative project to date. 🌟 Hear more from kyu's Adam Brick, Hiba Ganta, and others about how kyu OS came to be, how the product has evolved, and what “creative intelligence” truly means within our collective. Read the full article below 👇🏻👇🏻 https://lnkd.in/e8f4yHsB ATÖLYE BEworks BIMM C2 Digital Kitchen Gehl - Making Cities for People Ghost Note Agency Godfrey Dadich Partners Haigo IDEO Kepler Lexington Napkyn Neol Public Digital Red Peak Rich Talent Group Sid Lee SYLVAIN SYPartners Upstatement YARD

Are you ready to design “Healthy Futures”? We’ll explore that and more at kyu House at London Climate Action Week. Join us on June 26 for three dynamic sessions that explore the intersection between climate and health: 🌍 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭 (presented by IDEO) - Discover how early interventions and holistic approaches in care, can transform both human and environmental well-being, setting the stage for a sustainable future, in service of bringing equity, dignity, and joy to all. 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/eTh37-WG 🩺 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 (presented by Lexington) - Given the compelling evidence that climate change will intensify negative health outcomes across populations in the UK and globally, how do we unlock the role of patients in driving climate-positive outcomes faster and at a greater scale? 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/eM-bffYU 🥂 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Raise a glass to connecting around creativity during London Climate Action Week. Enjoy drinks, light bites, live music and interactivity with your fellow climate and health experts. More programming details to come. 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/ePsBVTet Secure your spot today. Spaces are limited! Learn more about kyu House at kyu.house. IDEO Lexington Gehl - Making Cities for People ATÖLYE SYPartners Kepler Kite Insights #LCAW2024 #LondonClimateActionWeek #kyuhouse

Can we thrive if our planet is sick? We believe healthy people are core to a healthy planet, and on June 26, kyu House returns for London Climate Action Week to explore how we can design 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 for all. kyu House programming gives form and substance to the power of practical creativity. kyu House at London Climate Action Week will be the site of proactive discussions around health-centric environments and greener health systems. Join climate and health experts for collaborative explorations of how the well-being of people can drive planet-positive outcomes. For more information about the day’s events, visit kyu.house and keep an eye on this space for more exciting updates from IDEO, Lexington, Gehl - Making Cities for People and ATÖLYE, SYPartners, and Kepler along with Kite Insights. #LCAW2024 #kyuhouse

Our member company Rich Talent Group is celebrating 10 years and they've got some big news to share. Congratulations to new CEO Nicole Reboe (she/her/hers)! We can't wait to see how RTG continues to evolve 💫 Hear more from Jana Rich (who's stepping into the role of Executive Chair) and Reboe at the link below 👇

Day 3 of #C2MTL24 ended on a high note! We expanded our minds with insightful AI sessions from member companies Sid Lee, BEworks, and SYLVAIN and left this year’s C2MTL feeling inspired. Learn more about the kyu Collective at http://kyu.com and check out our Day 3 insights below 👇🏻 ✨ Sid Lee started the morning by asking us to reframe our perspective on AI and consider “atypical intelligence.” A panel of creative visionaries showed us why expanding our definition of intelligence is so valuable — and why it’s most important to lead with empathy when fostering neurodiversity. 🧠 BEworks CEO Wardah M. brought us a mind-blowing conversation on the future (and present) of neurotech. Jared Genser (General Counsel, The Neurorights Foundation) shared the “thought-to-text” and medical breakthroughs that will be possible in the next five years. Privacy concerns abound but, he argued, ”Neurotechnologies are going to be extraordinarily productive for society and for the world." 🤖 When it comes to AI, are we worrying about the right things? Neil Patel (NP Digital) pointed out that while AI will certainly replace some jobs, we may spend more time thinking about strategy and concept. Hugging Face’s Dr. Sasha Luccioni reminded us generative AI shouldn’t be used for everything and dropped the truth bomb that, “there’s a huge gender imbalance in AI…consent is rarely on the table.” 🤔Aaron L. Powers (SYLVAIN) and The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz talked doomers and tech enthusiasts and drew parallels between dealing with AI and the atomic bomb. Still, there's plenty of hope to be found in our AI-filled future. “I allow myself to turn off the fear for a moment and say, what do I want to build, go and ride that wave…that’s the heart of creative work,” said Powers. As we bid adieu to #C2MTL24, we’re leaving the Grand Quay with new ways of thinking and exciting connections, all made possible by our member company, C2. Au revoir until 2025!

Day 2 of #C2MTL24 by C2 is a wrap and we went deep on “Sustainability + Innovation.” Check out the coolest things we saw and heard today: 🗣️ We went back to language basics with sound artist David Drury's immersive lab 👗 Nuha Siddiqui (erthos®) and Eric Liedtke(UNLESS Collective) showed us what the future of fashion could look like if we focus on regenerative fashion. “You have to be a great storyteller and have the unit economics,” argued Liedtake. “We want to design the right material for the right supply chain,” said Siddiqui on the production side. 🍝 Nüense taught us how lasagna can help us understand the value of championing neurodiversity. 🌿 Clyde Higgs (Atlanta BeltLine): “The days of thinking of green space in isolation are gone…you have to think of adjacent opportunities for your communities.” ☀️ Director Guy Reid on the idea of “a bright future” being linked to our solar future: “The solar future is meant to be a future where our nervous systems start to relax." We’re already counting down the hours until tomorrow’s panels from BEworks, Sid Lee, and SYLVAIN.