Andres Colmenares is a strategist, curatorial designer and creative foresight consultant and as co-founder of IAM, he has led and developed partnerships with organizations such as NESTA, Tate, Red Bull, Centre for Investigative Journalism, WeTransfer, BBC, SPACE10 (IKEA’s research and design lab) and the University of Arts London. He is also co-director of The Billion Seconds Institute, a lifelong learning initiative to reimagine the digital economy kickstarted in 2021.
Andres is passionate about designing and facilitating collaborative learning programs and knowledge-exchange experiences. He has created a new
Master in Design for Responsible Artificial Intelligence systems for ELISAVA School of Design & Engineering of Barcelona and is faculty of the Master in Design for Emerging Futures at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
In 2022 he joined Ars Electronica as a jury member for the STARTS Prize, an award created by the European Commission to honor Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. He has also been invited a guest lecturer, keynote speaker, workshop host, panelist and moderator at several universities, public and private events including SPACE10’s Pop-ups (Mexico City, 2022 - Delhi, 2020), Forward Festival (Vienna, 2021), PRIMER EU Conference (Madrid, 2019), Swedish Work Lab (Stockholm, 2019) and Digitally Engaged Learning Conference at York University (Toronto, 2018).
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