Town Hall #55 - Software for Society - USA
Updated: May 20, 2022
Hosted by Mark Bergin
Contributors:
Ronnie Peters - Founder & CEO at 360 Design and Creative Director at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Rick Bell - Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York
Dan Formosa - Designer at Dan Formosa! and Co-founder at 4B
Julia Monk - Hospitality Thought Leader, Architect, Interior Designer
Jon Winebrenner - Creative Director at Sonn Technology
Hannah Hackathorn - Regional Principal - Design at Unispace
Resources:
Million Dollar Blocks - Columbia | Center for Spatial Research
Designing the Future with Brian Collins - A Bit of Optimism with Simon Sinek
Ford All-Electric F-150 Prototype
Design Construction Excellence 2.0 Guiding Principles - NYC DDC
Quotes:
Ronnie
"COVID has escalated us ten years into the tech world"
Rick
"The software for society is our value system"
Dan
"If you change the data you change peoples minds"
Julia
"Hardware is equal to a fixed mindset... software is equal to a growth mindset"
Jon
"We are in the middle of a renaissance... we are transitioning from limited to excess of information"
Hannah
"If we teach from the get-go that change will happen, we can adapt quicker"
Mark
"Life becomes hard when the software isn't right"