(10 Mar) Speculative Future Frames Workshop

AI is a mirror and amplifier of our assumptions. If we do not stop to question the ideas we bring into how we design and use AI, we risk carrying forward the same problems from old education systems into the future.

"Speculative Future Frames" creates a space for experimentation and conversation. It invites participants to go beyond optimisation and improvement of existing systems, and instead engage in radical imagination to rethink teaching and learning at the level of our assumptions. What if education was fundamentally reconfigured? What would learning feel like, look like, and ask of us in such a future?

Be part of this 2-hour in-person workshop that brings together cross-disciplinary groups of participants to examine and deconstruct current assumptions about higher education (such as grading, credentials, institutional structures, and linear curriculum) and to prototype future frames through speculative design.

Speakers

Assoc Prof Tamas Makany

Tamas is Associate Provost (Teaching and Learning Innovation), Director for the Centre for Teaching Excellence and Associate Professor of Communication Management (Education) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He teaches design communication at SMU.

Assoc Prof Jacinth Tan

Jacinth is Associate Professor of Psychology at Singapore Management University and the principal investigator of the SMU Social Health Lab. She studies how social class and group differences shape emotion, health, and interpersonal experience across diverse contexts.

Assoc Prof Jawn Lim

Jawn Lim is Associate Professor of Design Innovation at SIT. He is the Emerging Fellows Programme Director at the Association of Professional Futurists and Chief Design Officer at the Singapore Productivity Centre. His work connects design innovation and futures thinking in education and industry.