Our new Creative Digital Futures Lab is an innovation hub for human relations with digital technologies. The Futures Lab uniquely brings into conversation high performance dynamics, arts-based change and data science.
The Futures Lab is a laboratory for innovation and a space of experimentation where deep expertise in applied social sciences and data sciences meets creativity and arts-based methods.
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Join us for the opening event, first in an exciting series of talks, artistic interventions, workshops and Data Schools.
High Performance Dynamics and Creativity:
Human tactics for organisations to flourish in the machine age
Speaker: Professor Eenasul Fateh, strategy and innovation investigator and artist-researcher. There will be a panel discussion with
Dr. Eliat Aram, CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London
Dr Ksenija Kuzmina, Programme Director, Institute of Creative Futures, Loughborough University London
Dr Annja Neumann (chair), Principal Artist-Researcher / Consultant & lead for Futures Lab, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London
Maral Pourkazemi, Independent Digital Designer, activist and artist, Co-Founder of Deep Lab, London
Steven Vuong, Data Scientist at HBSC, Hong Kong
When: Thursday 26 September, 6pm — 8pm
Where: in-person at our central London Studio and online
About the talk
The technological revolution, pandemic, financial constraints and other sources of uncertainty challenge how we and our organisations are able to work and collaborate together in rewarding, regenerative ways. We recover, develop strengths and grow hope, ambitions, hard feelings, successes and relationships in the places we work.
Eenasul Fateh explores the dynamics between the individual and the organisation in which we exercise our capabilities as something deeply connected to growth, complex trauma and performing at our optimum in turbulent times.
This is a matter of exploring the lens of trauma-informed high performance dynamics and practice at the workplace, of practising creativity and reflection and of being reminded how to engage with our sensations and senses in situations that we struggle with. For Eenasul, it is above all about being human.
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Images created by AI image generators responding to prompts to ChatGPT Dall-e 3 by Eenasul Fateh in dialogue with Maral Pourkazemi in August 2024.
For whom?
The Futures Lab launch and talk are for all those who are both curious and critical about digital futures and how it can shape what good work feels like. AI is not just a tool and technology. More fundamentally it allows us to talk about social and technological transformation.
The event will speak to OD and HR experts, artists, leaders in tech, pharma, health, the culture and heritage sector and for those for whom working with machines is all about being human.
About Eenasul Fateh
Eenasul Fateh is a Strategy Consultant and Artist-Researcher. He is a Board Member of the Tavistock Institute and Associate Editor of its journal Organizational Aesthetics. He is also an influential former member of the award-winning Trauma Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and Board Member of its charity.
Eenasul is an interdisciplinary academic who began as a Research Fellow in global economic instability and warfare at his alma mater, the London School of Economics, from where he graduated in 1980.
Since the latter, he went on to teach management, strategy, innovation, fine art and more at Cranfield, Manchester, City Universities, LBS, Copenhagen Business School, the University of the Arts, Royal College of Art, Christies among others. As a strategy consultant he has advised Schlumberger, Citibank, Adidas, LVMH, Oracle, DEFRA; regeneration projects in Fogo Island, Dale, Aarhus, Berlin, Deptford. As Co-Chair of the Cultural Strategy Group at London City Hall 2000-4 he was instrumental in developing the world’s first integrated cultural masterplan for a capital city.
Eenasul is a former chair of Black Mime Theatre Company and Entelechy Arts. A practising artist - self-organising and interdisciplinary – his pseudonymous works and processes have featured at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the ICA, the British Festival of Visual Theatre, LIFT Festival, Manifesta Biennale, London 2012 Festival/Cultural Olympiad; he has led masterclasses on creativity for D&AD, Jerwood Space and others.
Eenasul also has extensive experience of working in youth and community development settings with individuals and groups ‘at risk’, including those who are in street gangs; he has also extensive experience of working within the NHS with patients with complex trauma and also trained in psychological and therapeutic studies at the Tavistock Clinic, the Institute of Psychosynthesis and Goldsmiths University. In 2002 Eenasul’s work with EDF won the Financial Times/Arts & Business category award for Professional Development Project of the Year.
About the Creative Digital Futures Lab
The Creative Digital Futures Lab at TIHR is an innovation hub for human relations with digital technologies. The Futures Lab is a laboratory for innovation and a space of experimentation where deep expertise in applied social sciences and data sciences meets creativity and arts-based methods. We bring together high performance dynamics, arts-based change and data science.
Group scene image credit © Annja Neumann, Alex Mentzel, Faust Shop 2.0: discover your artificial double, a mixed-reality performance, premiered in the Central Library, The Grand Arcade, Cambridge, 16 March 2024, funded by Cambridge Digital Humanities as part of a Newton Trust Fellowship, University of Cambridge, This work is openly licensed via CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
