I’m working on this project with Institute for the Future – calling on voices everywhere for ideas to improve the future of global health. It would be great to get some Quantified Self ideas entered!
IFTF BodyShock the Future entry idea:
Shock Your Body from Institute for
the Future on Vimeo.
INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCES
BODYSHOCK:
CALL FOR ENTRIES ON IDEAS TO TRANSFORM LIFESTYLES AND THE
HUMAN BODY TO IMPROVE HEALTH IN THE NEXT DECADE
“What can YOU
envision to improve and reinvent health and well-being for the future?”
Anyone can enter, anyone can vote, anyone can change the future of
global health.
With obesity,
diabetes, and chronic disease rampaging populations around the world,
Institute for the Future (IFTF) is turning up the volume on global
well-being. Launching today, IFTF’s BodyShock is the first annual
competition with an urgent challenge to recruit crowdsourced designs and
solutions for better health–to remake the future by rebooting the
present.
See more info after the jump…
BodyShock calls upon the
public to consider innovative ways to improve individual and collective
health over the next 3-10 years by transforming our bodies and
lifestyles. Video or graphical entries illustrating new ideas, designs,
products, technologies, and concepts, will be accepted from people
around the world until September 1, 2010. Up to five winners will be
flown to Palo Alto, California on October 8 to present their ideas and
be connected to other innovative thinkers to help bring these ideas to
life. The grand prize winner will receive the IFTF Roy Amara Prize of
$3,000.
“Health doesn’t happen all at once; it’s a consequence of
years of choices for our bodies and lifestyles–some large and some
small. BodyShock is intended to spark new ideas to help us find our way
back to health,” said Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired, author of The Decision Tree, and a
member of the Health Advisory Board that will be judging the BodyShock
contest in addition to votes from the public.
“BodyShock is a
fantastic initiative. Global collaboration and participation from all
voices can produce a true revolution,” said Linda Avey, founder of Brainstorm Research Foundation
and another Advisor to BodyShock.
Entries may come from anyone
anywhere and can include, but are not limited to, the following: Life
extension, DIY Bio, Diabetic teenagers, Developing countries, Green
health, Augmented reality, Self-tracking, and Pervasive games.
Participants are challenged to use IFTF’s Health Horizons forecasts for
the next decade of health and health care as inspiration, and design a
solution for a problem that will be widespread in 3-10 years, using
technologies that will become mainstream.
“Think ‘artifacts from
the future’–simple, non-obvious, high-impact solutions that don’t exist
yet, will be among the concepts we’re looking to the public to
introduce,” said Rod Falcon, director of the Health Horizons Program at IFTF.
BodyShock’s
grand prize, the Roy Amara Prize, is named for IFTF’s long-time
president Roy Amara (1925-2000) and is part of a larger program of
social impact projects at IFTF honoring his legacy, known as The Roy Amara Fund for
Participatory Foresight, the Fund uses participatory tools to
translate foresight research into concrete actions that address future
social challenges.
PANEL OF COMPETITION JUDGES
Joanne
Andreadis
Lead of Innovation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Linda
Avey
Founder, Brainstorm
Research Foundation
Jason Bobe
Director
of Community, Personal Genome
Project
Founder, DIYBio.org
Alexandra
Carmichael
Co-founder, CureTogether
Ted
Eytan, MD
Kaiser Permanente,
The Permanente Federation
Rod Falcon
Director,
Health Horizons Program
Peter
Friess
President, Tech
Museum of Innovation
Thomas Goetz
Executive
Editor, WIRED Magazine
Author, The Decision Tree
Natalie
Hodge,MD FAAP
Chief Health Officer, Personal Medicine International
Ellen
Marram
Board of Trustees, Institute for the Future
President,
Barnegat Group LLC
Kristi Miller Durazo
Senior
Strategy Advisor, American
Heart Association
David Rosenman
Director,
Innovation
Curriculum
Center for Innovation at Mayo Clinic
Amy
Tenderich
Board Member, Journal of Participatory
Medicine
Blogger, DiabetesMine.com
DETAILS
WHAT:
An
online competition for visual design ideas to improve global health
over the next 3-10 years by transforming our bodies and lifestyles.
Anyone can enter, anyone can vote, anyone can change the future of
health.
WHEN:
Launch – Friday, June 18,2010
Deadline
for entries -Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Winners announced
-Thursday, September 23, 2010
BodyShock Winners Celebration at
IFTF – 6 – 9 p.m. Friday, October 8, 2010 – FREE and open to the public
WHERE:
http://www.bodyshockthefuture.org
(and
124 University Ave, 2ndFloor, Palo Alto, CA)
