Mariana Cabugueira: Design and the Metaverse

Show Notes:Education simply cannot keep up with the future of design and architecture. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and machine learning are moving at such a rapid pace that colleges and universities are struggling to keep up. How can we look at the past to prevent ...  Show more

Every era has had a signature material - stone, iron and wood spring to mind. Today, it’s plastic. And our oceans are full of it. The result of this new environment is a demand for design innovation like we’ve never seen before. But as we look forward to this future, it is equall ...  Show more

BoF’s Marc Bain and a group of panellists break down the state of web3 in fashion and where the technology is headed.

Background:

Over the last couple of years, the fashion industry couldn’t stop talking about the potential of NFTs ...

In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would change its name to Meta, reflecting its shift towards “the Metaverse”. Today, the concept is central to the strategies of the world’s biggest tech companies – including Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft – who are sp ...  Show more

Suddenly it feels like everyone is talking about the metaverse, doesn’t it? But what exactly is the metaverse? Wikipedia describes it as “a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection,” but the only real consensus seems to be that it’s going to be, well, huge. Googl ...  Show more

On the 28th of October, 2021, Facebook announced The Future…aka, a corporate rebrand. By changing the name of their parent company to Meta, they set out a vision for a new internet. Here, you can meet your colleagues in a virtual meeting room, and/or fence with Mark Zuckerberg. I ...  Show more