Discovering a global vision

The NextEra initiative by the Finnish innovation fund Sitra and the acclaimed think tank Demos Helsinki will join us in creating an event with a global perspective on the local community.

NextEra advocates that we as a society can indeed ask ourselves where we want to go in the future, and the initiative has set up a series of global meetings to create a shared understanding and start building visions for the next era of well-being. From San Francisco, Tokyo, London and Helsinki; to the city of Trondheim.

12:00 - 16:00: Human sciences and democratic innovation

Talented students, researchers, public leaders and international democracy entrepreneurs meet at NTNU to exchange and build knowledge on ways of augmenting democracy.

NTNU, known as the premier technical university of Norway, has a large campus for humanities and social sciences. Throughout the last ten years, we have seen the importance of integrating these fields of study in the development of technology. Particularly, this has been evident in design driven innovation on the product, service and system levels. But what happens if the design effort is really big?

14:00 - 18:00: Arts and city development

Nyhavna is an almost clean slate for city development, yet it is an area loaded with creativity. The harbor administration hosts a seminar and open mic session on the role of creative industries in the development of Nyhavna.