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We live in an era of runaway design where the possibilities of new technologies—like generative AI and synthetic biology—are near limitless, but so are the perils. Even the most well-intentioned and transformative innovations can go haywire, jeopardizing our work and our world. In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, a provocative and deeply hopeful new manifesto, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley, the Academic and Creative Directors at the Stanford d.school, pair speculative fiction with practical guidance to show how to build a world worth living in rather than one that tears us apart.

Co-authors Carter and Doorley will be in conversation with Liz Gerber, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America.