Experimentation / United Nations Development Programme Asia Pacific, Regional Innovation Centre

For the record, Brandon, Ariane and I zoomed with:

Prateeksha Singh, Head of Experimentation / United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).Asia Pacific, Regional Innovation Centre
and 
Giulio Quaggiotto, Head of Regional Innovation Center, UNDP Asia Pacific; MIT Research fellow (formerly Nesta UK )

They reached out to Synthesis, thanks to our Participatory Steering of Complex Adaptive Systems initiative with Alex Penn (Surrey UK), Beth Cullen (Monsoon Assemblage, India UK), Alex Smaijgl (Bangkok), Petra Ahrweiler (Mainz), Jesús M. Siqueiros García (UNaM Mexico)

Here are some links for convenience:

sensemaking protocol for UNDP staff dealing with complex development challenges and we are now thinking of how to augment it with additional tools (experiential, 3d, etc.) that can help decision making in complex environments:


 I am with the UNDP's Asia Pacific Regional Innovation Center based out of Bangkok, Thailand. Our team is uniquely positioned as the only regional innovation center within the global UNDP ecosystem, and our work cuts across a number of portfolios from supporting anticipatory governance at a national policy level, to getting regional offices to shift in their work from single point projects to wider systemic transformation portfolio's within specific problem areas (and development challenges).
 
We came across the Synthesis Center and your work via this Beth Cullen blog entry called " SENSING, SYNTHESISING, STEERING – A VISIT TO ARIZONA" and wanted to see if we could discuss how the environments you are creating could help us with our interactions with governments – or perhaps explore having a customized version of the training your ran for Beth Cullen and co. We are also thinking of participatory steering for complex systems and are proactively looking for a partner who can help us with the visualization/sensory component of that process. To that effect, would you be open to having conversation with my team, including the Head of Regional Innovation Center, Giulio Quaggiotto?
 
I really look forward to hearing from you. Thank you so much for your time and incredible work as a collective.
 
Warmly,
Prateeksha 
 
 
Prateeksha Singh
Head of Experimentation, Regional Innovation Centre
Bangkok Regional Hub
United Nations Development Programme
3rd Floor United Nations Service Building
Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand
prateeksha.singh@undp.org
Cell.: +66 64 009 4346 (BKK)
Skype: prateeksha.singh

with:

Brandon Mechtley, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Synthesis / synthesis.ame.asu.edu
School of Arts, Media and Engineering / ame.asu.edu


Ariane Middel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) | School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE)
@ASUMaRTy
950 S. Forest Mall, Stauffer B258 
@ArianeMiddel

Sha Xin Wei, PhD
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TEDx Ecosystemic Design • Synthesis 2019 Research-Creation
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Sha Xin Wei • Professor + Director School of Arts, Media and Engineering • Synthesis 
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Senior Fellow Building21 McGill • Fellow ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems • Learning Alliance
Professor European Graduate School • Associate Editor AI & Society Journal • Founding Director Topological Media Lab
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See also:

Dr Alex Smajgl

Managing Director

Mekong Region Futures Institute (MERFI)

399 Interchange 21  (32nd floor), Sukhumvit Rd

North Klongtoey, Wattana

Bangkok, 10110 Thailand

+66 (0) 95657 1200

 
Managing Director

Sustainable Futures Institute Australia (SFIA)

Melbourne, Australia

+61 411571762

 

Adjunct Professor

Deakin University

Burwood – Melbourne Campus

221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125