Speaker info
Full Name: Marie-Michèle Larivée
Job Title: Trends, Strategy & Foresight consultant
Job Title: Trends, Strategy & Foresight consultant
Bio
https://99u.adobe.com/articles/59009/public-speaking-is-terrifying-6-ways-to-deliver-like-a-pro
https://ambervilhauer.com/media
Marie-Michèle Larivée is a Trend, Strategy and Foresight consultant. She helps organizations navigate the future with sustainable eyewear. Her mission is to avoid filling shelves with unwanted products by consciously creating products, services, strategies tailored to intrinsic needs in tomorrow's society. She speaks colours, textures, intuition and emotions tracing social changes. More than fads, trends can be seen in longer shock waves and hints to the upcoming communities.
She is also a university lecturer at ESG-UQAM and contributor to international trends and innovation cells including TrendWatching, SoonSoonSoon, Copenhagen Institute of future Studies and U + plurality. She is a trusted trend source for numerous media recently featured in LaPresse, Business Insider, Dazed, Teen Vogue, Nylon, W magazine among others.
https://99u.adobe.com/articles/59009/public-speaking-is-terrifying-6-ways-to-deliver-like-a-pro
https://ambervilhauer.com/media
Marie-Michèle Larivée is a Trend, Strategy and Foresight consultant. She helps organizations navigate the future with sustainable eyewear. Her mission is to avoid filling shelves with unwanted products by consciously creating products, services, strategies tailored to intrinsic needs in tomorrow's society. She speaks colours, textures, intuition and emotions tracing social changes. More than fads, trends can be seen in longer shock waves and hints to the upcoming communities.
She is also a university lecturer at ESG-UQAM and contributor to international trends and innovation cells including TrendWatching, SoonSoonSoon, Copenhagen Institute of future Studies and U + plurality. She is a trusted trend source for numerous media recently featured in LaPresse, Business Insider, Dazed, Teen Vogue, Nylon, W magazine among others.
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Imagining the future - a collective workshop 🚀
Short description: With current state of emergency and unprecedented time it can be hard to imagine the future. How will these mouvement emerge and create new behaviour for the future of our society? In this participatory workshop, you will team, break the grey veil that is affixed to the future and brainstorm using techniques on forecasting values, trends and strategies that are relevant to your organisation in the upcoming years. After a brief introduction to trends and innovation, Marie-Michèle will guide you towards developing an enlightenment vision. It is a lot of fun as a workshop and the result is generally surprising (positively) packed with insightful information.
Offered online and Offline
Offered online and Offline
DEMYSTIFY TRENDS - an overuse in a satured world 🌈
Trends is a world that is widely used and overused. Often directly associated with fashion, although trends are reflection of the current mood of society. Trends and shifts happen following different mechanisms and this presentation decrypts them.
Lenght: 45 minutes
At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to
>Demystify the true and false of trends
>Differentiate fads from other types of trends
>Become familiar with the world of trends, its unspoken truth and its misunderstanding
>Understand trend mechanisms
>Define Zeitgeist and ongoing influences
Webinar or on stage
Lenght: 45 minutes
At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to
>Demystify the true and false of trends
>Differentiate fads from other types of trends
>Become familiar with the world of trends, its unspoken truth and its misunderstanding
>Understand trend mechanisms
>Define Zeitgeist and ongoing influences
Webinar or on stage
tips for an inclusive future
How to sustainably forecast the future?
Trend forecasting is one of the first steps in collection elaboration. As design professionals, this is an ongoing process. Scouting in trade shows, personal inspiration or with team members. Some bias has entered the practice of trend forecasting or reading the future (as if it wasn’t already hard enough to read the future, I know). Without noticing, forecasting in your organization may contain blind spots and that transforms in unwanted products or non-inclusive future.
This Tedtalk-style presentation offers the revised steps to sustainably forecast the future in design fields. With her expertise in trend forecasting, distinct methodology, years evaluating trend agency practises and trend books, Marie-Michele leads this presentation to highlight the reflexes to modify for a sustainable & inclusive forecasting. To be aware of our own background, practices and fault is the first step towards the future.
After this presentation, attendees will be able to forecast the future in colors and not only that, but be change makers. They will be comfortable with trend bias and establish mechanisms. This presentation is meant for creatives, strategists, design professionals and entrepreneurs.
Length : 20 minutes
Target audience : Creatives, strategists, design professionals &entrepreneurs
Format : Presentation (Tedtalk-style)
Equipment :
Online : Access Screen sharing, chat box and camera
On stage : Presentation projection, micro
Inclusive design
Data bias
Marie-Michèle Larivée is a trend expert. She inspires organizations to foresee the future in colors. Elected emerging entrepreneurs by C2MTL, she elaborates strategies for the future based on upcoming trend signals. Her methodology is specific and unique in Canada. She traces the evolution and societal changes by translating it into aesthetics (colors, style, textiles) in a sustainable way
Trend forecasting is one of the first steps in collection elaboration. As design professionals, this is an ongoing process. Scouting in trade shows, personal inspiration or with team members. Some bias has entered the practice of trend forecasting or reading the future (as if it wasn’t already hard enough to read the future, I know). Without noticing, forecasting in your organization may contain blind spots and that transforms in unwanted products or non-inclusive future.
This Tedtalk-style presentation offers the revised steps to sustainably forecast the future in design fields. With her expertise in trend forecasting, distinct methodology, years evaluating trend agency practises and trend books, Marie-Michele leads this presentation to highlight the reflexes to modify for a sustainable & inclusive forecasting. To be aware of our own background, practices and fault is the first step towards the future.
After this presentation, attendees will be able to forecast the future in colors and not only that, but be change makers. They will be comfortable with trend bias and establish mechanisms. This presentation is meant for creatives, strategists, design professionals and entrepreneurs.
Length : 20 minutes
Target audience : Creatives, strategists, design professionals &entrepreneurs
Format : Presentation (Tedtalk-style)
Equipment :
Online : Access Screen sharing, chat box and camera
On stage : Presentation projection, micro
Inclusive design
Data bias
Marie-Michèle Larivée is a trend expert. She inspires organizations to foresee the future in colors. Elected emerging entrepreneurs by C2MTL, she elaborates strategies for the future based on upcoming trend signals. Her methodology is specific and unique in Canada. She traces the evolution and societal changes by translating it into aesthetics (colors, style, textiles) in a sustainable way
Avoid waste - DIFFERENTIATE macro trends from fads 🗑️
