Paul Bennett, What is Your Dream for Dubai?

“What is your dream?” (Paul Bennett, TEDxDubai 10.10.09)

Bennett’s Ideas Worth Sharing:

Design is the action that occurs between dreaming and being. Design brings the two together.

Shared work with how to humanize organizations and spread empathy. Work clients included:  hospitals, Transportation Security Administration, and Bank of America. The focus was on taking a broken system and inputting empathy.

“We’re a room full of designers. What does this mean for us all?”

Bennett shared some dreams of Dubai from attendees and from Facebook. Examples include: be the creative capital, make it happen now, develop people and not just property, open source Dubai, and education for everyone. He called Dubai optimistic.

DREAMING IS BIG HERE

Call to Action:

-Involve people in the process to design their own world

-Empower people to create themselves

-Optimism

-Be collaborative