Reawakening the Social Imagination: designing a global alliance for creative action and renewal

Presented by Innovation Management MA course community, with Juha Leppänen, Dr Ghadah Alharthi and Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE. Opening note by Professor Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins.

It is time to collectively reimagine society, implement a range of strategic experiments and take creative action on an unprecedented scale. That is why Demos Helsinki has chosen to initiate the Untitled, consisting of committed partners and creative changemakers from across diverse sectors in Europe and beyond.

At this global public event, Juha Leppänen (CEO, Demos Helsinki) will shed light on the radical thinking behind Untitled - that prioritises openness and collaborative action - while Geoff Mulgan (Fellow, Demos Helsinki; Professor, UCL STeaPP, ex-CEO, Nesta) will offer a big picture view on why reawakening the social imagination is precisely what is needed at this uncertain moment in history, followed by a Q&A.

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Please contact us with your ideas, thoughts and projects.
We are keen to support various industries and organisations, drive innovation and impact.
In the past, we have collaborated with various industry leaders and emerging ventures.
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Juha Leppänen is the Chief Executive of Demos Helsinki, a think tank based in Helsinki and operating around the world. Juha is a social scientist and his portfolio of projects include Design for Government for the Prime Minister's Office in Finland, a project where Demos Helsinki proposed a model that is now being implemented to utilise experimentation, behavioural insights and better evidence in Finnish policy design. Prior to his work at Demos, Juha co-founded an award-winning startup. In addition to his work at Demos Helsinki, Juha is a member of Global Innovation Council; sits on board of directors of multiple organisations; and is an active advisor on strategy, innovation and policy.

Geoff Mulgan is a Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). From 2011 to 2019 he was Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.

Dr Alharthi holds a PhD in Management (Social Entrepreneurship) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her PhD research explored the journey of social entrepreneurs and was centred on analysing their social networks and psychological capital, in addition to reflecting on gender related issues in the field. She is the MA Innovation Management Course Coordinator (Associate Director) at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Professor Jeremy Till is the Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of the Arts. Previously he was Dean of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster and before that Head of Architecture at the University of Sheffield.​

Central Saint Martins’ bespoke MA Innovation Management course works with students who are passionate about developing creative strategies to drive innovation and transformative change in an uncertain world. Led with a strong sense of vision, this transdisciplinary MA combines theory and practice, mixing creative projects and fieldwork opportunities with lectures and rigorous writing assignments. It offers a collaborative learning community in which students from a wide range of fields – including design, business, science, policy, digital entrepreneurship and art ­– continuously challenge each other to transcend their limits as they learn how to lead processes of hybrid creativity and innovation. This course is part of the Culture and Enterprise programme and it collaborates with a wide range of partners internally and externally. For more information, see the MA Innovation Management course page: https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/business-and-management-and-science/postgraduate/ma-innovation-management-csm

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