Collective Singing and Social Innovation
How a Pop-Up Choir Redefines Participation and Belonging
by Kim Mingo
Collective singing has profound transformative benefits and has been practiced for millennia. A pop-up model can turn it into a powerful tool for community-building and social innovation. Exploring participation, experience design, and sustainability, this talk highlights how music fosters connection and scales as a movement.
Kim is a Design Leader with 25+ years of experience. Formerly a Design Director at McKinsey, she now runs her own design consulting practice, building capabilities and driving business impact through design. Passionate about social innovation, she co-founded HardCoro, a social innovation startup using the power of collective singing for social impact.
Trajectories of Purpose: Practice in a Time of Failing Myths
by Justin Cook
Strategic designer Justin W. Cook explores how the guiding myths that shaped his career have evolved—from orderly climate transition to embracing collapse, from progress and ever greater complexity to post-carbon simplicity. How and what do we create when our fundamental assumptions no longer hold?
Justin W. Cook is a strategic designer focused on complex systems. As Founding Director of Center for Complexity at RISD, he builds novel organizational architectures to enable transformation. Previously, he led design strategy at Finnish Innovation Fund, developing solutions for global challenges. He received a Master of Architecture from Harvard. www.linkedin.com/in/justinwcook/
