Kayo Otaka started her career at Hakuhodo in 1990 as marketing strategy planner, mainly took part in projects pertaining to new product development and business development. Foreseeing that co-creation will become the marketing trend of the future, she established β–ban, the pilot company of Voice Vision in 2011. After expanding her portfolio, including projects with major corporations and government offices, Kayo proposed the business plan of Voice Vision to the Hakuhodo board members and successfully established Voice Vision in July 2013. She currently serves as CEO of Voice Vision, which provides co-creation open community services to clients of Hakuhodo.

Oliviero Toscani is a photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000. After obtaining his diploma at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, he started working with different magazines, including Elle, Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. In 1982 he started working as Art Director for the Benetton Group. In the early 1990s, Toscani co-founded the magazine Colors (also owned by Benetton). In 2005, he sparked controversy again with his photographs for an advertising campaign for the men’s clothing brand Ra-Re. In September 2007, a new campaign against anorexia was again controversial due to his shocking photography of an emaciated woman. A long-term Tuscany resident, in 2003 he created in collaboration with Regione Toscana a new research facility for modern communication called La Sterpaia.

Another speaker of the Sunday lecture in the idyllic courtyard of the Bischofsitz: Derrick de Kerkove, long-time director of the Marshall McLuhan Center, author of many books and professor at the University of Toronto.

Panashe Chigumadzi is a young author and visionary from Zimbabwe. She’s convinced that new stories and ways of telling them are precisely what are needed in order to overcome still-prevailing colonialist clichés and perspectives and to go beyond them to construct a new African identity. She’ll give an account of her work, experiences and successes in the Sunday lecture in the idyllic courtyard of the Bischofsitz.

Hand-crafted technological artifacts focus on social interaction and the engagement of the public with DIY (Do It Yourself) and DIT (Do It Together) practices, and learning by doing techniques. The creation of these unique artifacts can permit the users to interact with their bodies and their surroundings through a playful exploration of art, tradition and technology and provide a subtle but fertile field of experimentation towards social change.

Hands-on practice

This workshop aims to reflect on the use of electronics and computation on textiles and wearables as means for the development of hand-crafted aesthetics. The subject is approched through discussion and hands-on practice and focuses on a single electronic component, the electromagnetic coil.

Three e-textile applications

The participants create handmade spiral copper coils on fabric and explore three different e-textile applications, using the coil as a audio speaker, as an electromagnetic field detector antenna and as a vibration motor. This way they engage in hand-stiching techniques, digital electronics, creative coding and reflect on prototypes that could incorporate an electromagnetic coil. The workshop is open to everybody. No background in coding or sewing is required.

Please register by emailing futureinnovators@aec.at

At the Sunday breakfast, Future Innovators Summit participants from all Working Groups will meet at the Arkadenhof.

C .. what it takes to change: The Future Innovators Summit closes on Sunday evening at Central Linz with a final discussion of all participants from the groups A to F. What ideas have arisen in the context of this international and multidisciplinary meeting here in Linz? What have we learned? And what’s next?

The innovators in Groups E and F will present the results of their Working Sessions at the Central Linz.

Experienced professionals meet young innovators, answer questions, give suggestions and feedback as well as insights into their own work. On Sunday, it’s the turn of ace photographer Oliviero Toscani (IT).

C … what it takes to change. 3 hours, the working groups E and F will focus on the festival theme. As a festival visitor you have the opportunity to keep track this discussion in the classroom.