1. Grab a paper + pen/cil
2. Draw 12 circles
3. You have 2 minutes to draw something using each circle!

Creative Exercise

BOPPPS

Bridge • Objectives • Pre-test • Presentation • Post-test • Summary

Workshop Objectives

• Learn about The Future Skills Centre and CSU Cal Poly
• Create future careers by remixing current ones
• Define and create fractals
• Use perspective to solve big and small challenges

Designer • Developer • Educator

Assistant Professor @ Cal Poly

Digital Experience Manager @ FSC

Your careers don’t exist... yet.

Write down 2 careers and 2 products

1. A career you are pursuing
   + a product you like
2. Any other job title / career idea
   + a random product (look around)

Remix!

1. Use your primary career
2. Choose another shared career
3. Create an overlapping career

Future Careers

• Based on the needs of our society
• Interdisciplinary
• Pursue everything you can!
  • Easy isn't a bad thing
  • What makes you feel fulfilled?
  • Help others
• I like doing ____ and ____ = ____

What is a Fractal?

What fractals can you find around you?

Tell us what you found!

Fractals are not just in plain sight!

What is the shape of...

• The Internet
• A company
• A social network
• Your family
• Neurons in a brain

What is the shape of...
a problem?

Image: The Motley Fool

Gantt Chart

The biggest problems challenges

often just need a small group of dedicated people to solve them.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead

Image: Forbes

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

• About 2x the size of France
• 70% of waste ends up on the ocean floor
• 1.15-2.41 million tonnes of plastic added each year
• Most content breaks down into
  micro-plastics (small beads)
• There are 5 major global ocean garbage patches

Image: CBS News

Our Biggest Challenge

An·thro·po·cene

the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

Remix + Careers

• Remix your job(s) for this challenge
• Break it into smaller tasks
• What are your ideas?