Shake Up The World

Shreyas Prakash

Why do most of the sci-fi flicks look dystopian in nature? Every imaginable future scenario looks like a Black Mirror episode. This podcast is an attempt to speculate the future in a positive way through design dialogues. This podcast will engage with futurists, designers, field specialists and experiential experts. For the second season, we are focusing on founders creating utopian science fiction (white-mirror) technologies creating a dent in the society with their views, vision and actions.

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Episodes

Future of Work | Laetitia Vitaud

For today's episode, I have with me Laetitia Vitaud. She is a writer and a prominent speaker about the future of work. Laetitia is also an editor in chief of the HR media, Welcome to the Jungle, a leading media that helps companies develop, in her own words, 'employer branding for the new work generation'. She has also constantly published her work in LSE Business Review, Medium as well as Malt. Show notes: -Definitions of Feminism -Meritocracy, Neonatalism and Motherhood -Equity, Equality and D...

May 07, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 7

Future of Ageing | Mehdi Yacoubi

Mehdi Yacoub is an engineer and entrepreneur from Paris, passionate about optimizing health, longevity and well being. Through Lifetizr, he is building a solution to help people optimize their metabolic health, prevent chronic diseases, and live healthier and longer. Mehdi also writes a weekly newsletter (The Long Game), were he shares the best stuff he comes across each week.  He covers a broad range of topics, always including health, wellness, and tech. In a given episode, you can read a...

Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Future of Unschooling | Che Vanni Beon Davids

Introducing Che Vanni , Founder of Reimagined Leaning Centre based out of South Africa . So, Che is an active participant of the unschooling network. His Reimagined Learning Centre is based on the philosophy of putting children in the drivers seats of their own lives. They consider children as complete autonomous human beings, participating and involving in activities at their own pace. Some of the activities which children carry out in this centre range from cooking, woodwork, permaculture, bee...

Aug 04, 2020•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Future of Mental Health Resillience | Kavya Rao

Today, for this episode of Shake Up The World Podcast, we have with us Kavya Rao who has taken up many hats in the past. She has worked as a consultant psychologist, teacher and also as a skill trainer for adolescents. Currently, Kavya works with Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, an organisation based in India where she develops awareness tools for maternal health and adolescent health.  As her interests primarily lie along the intersections of psychology and education, The topic...

Jun 13, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Future of Equity | St. Ludovick Peters

Ludovick is the Founder and CEO of SLIOC which is aimed at providing access to education and shelter for albino children in Tanzania.  In Tanzania, East Africa, people with white skin (known as albinos) are hunted like animals for their body parts which are widely believed to have magical and superstitious properties. As a result, between 2000 and 2017 there were 75 ‘registered’ killings of albinos, a further 61 survived attacks and there were 16 albino grave robberies. Through his charitab...

Jun 13, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Future of Rural Innovation | Thabiso Blak Mashaba

SHOW LESS Thabiso is double major degree holder in Economics and Accounting from the University of Botswana. He is a completing global master’s degree in development practice programme (MDP) student under the prestigious Socio-Economic Development, Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited Trust Professor Thomas Tlou scholarship, with the same institution.      Thabiso is also a strategist, cultural economist, arts trainer and policymaker. He sits on the Botswana Confederation of C...

Jun 13, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Future of Tacit Knowledge | Celeste Volpi

For this episode, We have Celeste Volpi , Design Researcher from TU Delft exploring various aspects of tacit knowledge through her graduation thesis. This is a deep dive into  the value in discovering tacit knowledge and on methods to unveil it through various design techniques. Although Tacit knowledge has been well researched in the past, Celeste comes up with tangible ways to add value to design educators in structuring better curriculums....

Jun 13, 2020•1 hr 13 min