[ origins ]
+ our backstory
Over the years, THE ADV_ has evolved, expanding its content, format, and delivery methods. It started in 2015 as a deck of prompt cards with a marker pen, and today it offers a customized experience through the interactive Empathy Axis and an online platform.
The scenarios have been developed with the support of experts from various sectors and across borders, many of whom have joined as long-term Advisors, Allies, and Associates. As the organization continues to grow, it always seeks meaningful partnerships that share its vision.
+ trial + error = innovation
+ our network
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Stephanie is an award-winning composer and creative director. Her work has featured at the Royal Opera House, FutureFest, The Roundhouse and more. In 2014 she founded BitterSuite, an internationally touring sensory music concept. In 2017 she conceived and directed ‘Open Senses’, a city-wide festival of sensory arts. Her work has been featured internationally in publications including The Guardian and Smithsonian.
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A freelance interaction designer and technologist, founding partner at Greyspace (a design & futures studio), a UK Design Council Associate, Member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, visiting faculty at CIID, Royal College of Art, Erhvervs Akademi, and a network expert at Canvas8. I’ve designed new digital products and services, prototyped 24-hour immersive future experiences, made a synthesiser out of cheese, and designed the user experience for Kodak’s first camera mobile app. I’ve spoken internationally at events on future-facing topics, design thinking and championed approaching research, design and prototyping through creative practices like immersive experience prototyping, improvisation, physical prototyping, creative coding and world-building.
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Mo-Ling Chui is the course leader for B.A. (Hons) Design Management and Cultures at, UAL : London College of Communication. She is a creative director, marketing communications strategist, project manager, curator, and educator with more than 20 years of international experience, including orienting brands to Chinese markets. Her research and creative practice apply ethnographic and human-centred approaches to develop cultural intelligence and social design projects.
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Nigel Stewart is a UK-based businessman and social entrepreneur who holds the position of Director at the learning institute Centre of Pan African Thought and The Care Plus Group in London. Nigel’s career spans 15 years in the fields of asset management, property and corporate finance. Nigel also works extensively as a consultant, specialising in coaching and mentoring start-ups and small caps on corporate strategy.
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As an early-career strategist, she uses the process of design thinking to identify and coordinate innovation within the creative, business and political sectors to explore new methods of creating sustainable, long-lasting change.
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Philip Howe is an independent writer, researcher and artist with a background in the arts and non-profit sector, with a particular interest in radical politics, technology and conflict. His work across these fields has focuses on the intersections of contemporary technological developments and statecraft as well as the reemergence of anarchist theory in modern political dialectic, thought and action.
“Just do it! It’s a great experience and makes you think.”
[ history ]
+ case studies
THE ADV_ has been balancing between public events and private consultation. As we shift our public interest towards our memberships, here are a few case studies of some of the most notable commissions.
THE ADV_ has been juggling between public events and private consultations. We wanted to share with you a few case studies of some of the most remarkable commissions as we get ready to launch the Strategix membership.
